Marks Left Quotes

#1. Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life ... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

Ugo Betti

#2. She wore light dabs of face powder on her cheeks to hide the permanent track marks left by so many tears.

Leslye Walton

#3. I think you can photograph a certain sliver of human presence in its absence ... images taken in the empty rooms, the marks left on the walls, disappearing shadows, etc.

Mona Kuhn

#4. I will not be defined by the marks left on me by the world, but by the mark I leave on the world (referring to the facial scars he still carries from his successful 1991 battle against cancer, which caused him to be turned down for a customer service job because he was "too ugly").

James Houston Turner

#5. M possessed, gripping her head and looking at the deep crimson bruise on her neck, fading to black at the edges. Her wrists are banded with yellow-green bruises, and when I turn her I spot the finger marks left on her thigh.
Did he do this to you?

Poppet

#6. At street corners, where walls join, I thought I could see some familiar features, like outlines of human faces, the shadows of cheekbones and eyebrows. They are really there, caught in stone for all time, along with the marks left by earthquakes, winters and scourges wrought by men.

Ismail Kadare

#7. As his teeth left bite marks down the side of her neck, she thought maybe she didn't need oxygen anymore. He could just breathe for her.

Stylo Fantome

#8. The group started getting bigger and bigger, so Al started replacing Brian on the road, and then finally there was a big flare-up with Dave Marks and he left the group.

Bruce Johnston

#9. Books , like landscapes, leave their marks in us. ( ... ) Certain books, though, like certain landscapes, stay with us even when we left them, changing not just our weathers but our climates.

Robert Macfarlane

#10. I didn't have the same dreams and ambitions I did before I left. You could say I no longer had stars in my eyes.

Paul D. Marks

#11. You just came wild and sexy all over my hand and even left some claw marks on my back to prove it. Don't go getting shy on me now. 'Cause baby, before the night is over you will be naked in my bed.

Abbi Glines

#12. This message was left for you by messenger, Mr. Marks." The clerk smiled. "That's the way they used to do it before email.

Kenneth Eade

#13. The secret to excitement is discovering new paths, and having the courage to take them.

Lawren Leo

#14. You know, I went through life and found that the bravest people are the ones who don't mind looking like cowards. So, I didn't mind to be so.

Moutasem Algharati

#15. [G]ive him this much: death didn't just walk up and inhale him. He wasn't exactly whisked away. He left claw marks on his life.

Denis Johnson

#16. Life has left no marks on him, because he hasn't paid much attention to it.

Kurt Vonnegut

#17. I focused, rather embarrassingly, on his chest which was rising and falling slowly.
I left teeth marks!

Kyra Lennon

#18. If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

Nguyen Cao Ky

#19. The most dangerous thing is to buy something at the peak of its popularity. At that point, all favourable facts and opinions are already factored into its price and no new buyers are left to emerge

Howard Marks

#20. Listening to them, I realized how much of who I was, what I was, had been defined by Baba and the marks he had left on people's lives. My whole life, I had been "Baba's son." Now he was gone. Baba couldn't show me the way anymore; I'd have to find it on my own. The thought of it terrified me.

Khaled Hosseini

#21. Marriage is the hardest thing you will ever do. The secret is removing divorce as
an option. Anybody who gives themselves that option will get a divorce.

Will Smith

#22. But since we've been fighting for first or second place, it's grabbed the media's attention. I enjoy racing them. They are a good team and when you beat them it's something to be proud of.

Larry Dixon

#23. Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone. Here is the record of their being here.

Chuck Palahniuk

#24. The conversation at dinner hadn't been successful either; it bore the marks of an old married couple who had very little left to say to each other.

Steve Martin

#25. Perhaps you see, therefore, why I think taste must come before nutrition? Our infatuation for the quasi-scientific has left us easy marks for con men and tin fiddle manufacturers.

Robert Farrar Capon

#26. When I left I got an award for being the latest person in the history of the school. If you got three late marks for being over fifteen minutes late you'd get an after school detention. I got something like 257 marks. And I only lived about ten minutes away.

Matthew Bellamy

#27. We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.

Wallace Stegner

#28. I walk into a large white room. It's a dance studio in midtown Manhattan. The room is clean, virtually spotless if you don't count the thousands of skid marks and footprints left there by dancers rehearsing. Other than the mirrors, the boom box, the skid marks, and me, the room is empty.

Twyla Tharp

#29. They love without measure those whom they will soon hate without reason.

Thomas Sydenham

#30. In old stapled problems, you can see the TB vaccine marks in the upper left corner where the staples have been removed and replaced, as the problem - even the staple holes of the problem - was copied and sent on to other departments for further action, copying, and stapling.

Nicholson Baker

#31. Even as she'd been writing it, she wondered if she was using too many exclamation marks, but she was glad she left them in. Nothing says "all is good in the world" like exclamation marks, after all.

Derek Landy

#32. Porfiry smoked with professional determination.

R.N. Morris

#33. There are some things that I like, like education, wine, and I'd like to be a good cook, although I'm a pretty good eater now.

Rick Wagoner

#34. A country preacher could not have looked more full of milk and honey than this formidable writer, whose words had always left long bloody marks wherever they fell.

Knut Hamsun

#35. In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party.

Jesse Helms

#36. Seek to give much
expect nothing.

Jonathan Goforth