Mark Twain Quotes

...my sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and always enjoyed the newest one more than any that went before; my brother had accumulated forty-two brands of Christianity before he was called away.

Mark Twain

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• No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • Family
  • School

• I didn't set out to be famous; if I'd wanted that, I would have gone on 'Big Brother.'

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Brother
  • Famous
  • Big Brother

• I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • House
  • Girl
  • Mom

• I wear jewellery that I never take off. I have a ring and two necklaces. I always have them on and get scared when I have to take them off for photo shoots. The ring is my mum's mum's mum's, and she gave it to me for my 18th birthday. The necklace is the same one that my sister has. She's called Hannah, and the name is the chain.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Sister
  • Birthday
  • Scared

• I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Brother
  • Three
  • Obsession

• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Brother

• I used to fantasize that Paul McCartney would marry my sister.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Sister
  • Used
  • Marry

• My wrestling and family go together. It's always been that way, from day one with my mom and dad, my sister, my wife, four daughters, grandsons, son-in-laws.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Family
  • Together
  • Dad

• I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character.

  

  Walter Martin
  • Character
  • Thought
  • Sister

• Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Sister
  • Fame
  • Group

• All my brother Eliot and I did as kids was film sketches.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Kids
  • Film
  • Brother

• I love my brother. I miss my brother.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Love
  • Brother
  • Miss

• I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays; I would write my own stories.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Parents
  • Child
  • Sister

• I love the Spider-Man story. I watched the cartoon on TV when I was a kid, and my brother wore his Spider-Man pyjamas everywhere.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Man
  • Brother
  • Story

• I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Faith
  • Die
  • Famous

• I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Sister
  • Name
  • Bear

• I have lost someone I loved as a brother, as a closest friend, and a remarkable human being. We have also lost one of the best damn actors we'll ever see.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Lost
  • Friend
  • Best

• My brother and I were separated when I was a child; we went with different parents.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Different
  • Parents
  • Brother

• Groupon is a great concept packaged in a superb name, but the concept of group discounts is not new.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Great
  • Name
  • Group

• The recognition thing started to happen in 2009 when 'Skins' season three had come out and we were on TV. It used to happen much more when we were in the height of our success, but I never really saw it as a chore or anything like that. It was just quite exciting - you had fans.

  

  Luke Pasqualino
  • Success

• You know what? I've won the Tour de France, and now I feel ready to talk about it.

  

  Bradley Wiggins

• As any opera fan knows, lawyers and judges do not fare well in most operas. Just consider the productions of 'Andrea Chenier,' 'Aida, Norma,' 'Billy Budd,' 'Peter Grimes,' 'The Crucible,' 'Lost in the Stars,' 'The Marriage of Figaro,' 'The Makropulos Case' and Wagner's 'Ring' cycle. Around 1810, the theme of justice emerged in opera.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Lost
  • Justice
  • Marriage

• 4chan gets almost one million posts per day, hundreds of thousands of which are images.

  

  Christopher Poole

• ...my sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and always enjoyed the newest one more than any that went before; my brother had accumulated forty-two brands of Christianity before he was called away.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Brother
  • Sister