Mark Twain Quotes

...when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are. Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

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• Let's remember that Bruce Rauner has every interest in getting stories out there that hurt Democrats.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Remember
  • Hurt
  • Democrats

• I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Lost
  • Hurt
  • Realize

• As much as I don't want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they're not pleased with what I'm presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.

  

  Wale
  • Music
  • Different
  • Perfect

• When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Nature
  • House

• I once lived in a cottage made entirely of wood, and there was an electrical fire. We all ran outside, and no one got hurt, but the house was demolished.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • House
  • Hurt
  • Fire

• You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Life
  • Me
  • Hurt

• I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Success
  • Team
  • Practice

• If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Good
  • Hurt
  • See

• I loved my start. I'm proud of my spots. I don't feel embarrassed by anything that I did... It definitely helped me more than hurt me.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • Proud
  • Hurt
  • Start

• I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Like
  • Stuff
  • Intense

• I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • People
  • Time
  • Love

• There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Amazing
  • Hurt

• A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Sick

• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Help
  • Purpose

• I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business towards Japan. And yet I remember how the car workers lived in the neighborhood that I grew up in. My father was a car salesman, and I remember how we lived. I remember how modestly we lived.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Business
  • Remember

• Family are the people that can hurt you the most.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Family
  • Hurt

• Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

  

  Hanns Eisler
  • Music
  • Nothing
  • Someone

• Second, and far more important: tuck your chin. You're going to get hurt, so expect it and be ready. You may as well see it coming.

  

  Elizabeth Haydon
  • Hurt
  • Coming
  • Tuck

• Once I have the grain of an idea, it haunts me until I finish the story. I don't like to be haunted, of course, so immediately get to work.

  

  Gena Showalter
  • Work

• When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Yourself

• My best stuff as a teacher was always to find the problems within each individual actor, and I'll suggest things that I know that particular actor will have difficulty with.

  

  Martin Landau
  • Teacher

• I'm really low maintenance when it comes to my clothes and what I wear. I definitely take care of my body, not so much for how I look, but I just like the feel of exercising and being healthy and having energy. That's why I work out all the time.

  

  Matt Barr
  • Time
  • Work
  • Why

• ...when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are. Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Hurt