Mark Twain Quotes

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Mark Twain

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• There is a lot of silence in me, and I feel that silence is often better than spoken words.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Words
  • Better
  • Silence

• It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Red
  • Say
  • Texas

• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Past
  • Grief
  • Loss

• I am a self-critical perfectionist.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Perfectionist
  • Self-Critical

• I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • Work
  • Fashion

• I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impact and some lasting value? Is it worth it for me to spend two years of my middle-aged life on this?' They're my criteria, and I think that's led me to more urgent projects.

  

  Larry Charles
  • Life
  • Value
  • Impact

• Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Real
  • Like
  • Dreams

• I'm a proud filmmaker, but everyone seems to have forgotten that. You're introduced, and someone will say, 'Arrey! Karan Johar! He does talk shows! He's judge!' And now my filmmaking has been lost, all my other accomplishments forgotten.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Lost
  • Proud
  • Judge

• Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Open

• Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Good
  • Great
  • Want

• Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Water

• Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • Truth

• Tens of thousands of brave Americans died to break the chains of British tyranny so that the principles of our Declaration of Independence could take fold and flourish in the birth of a new nation.

  

  Jim Gerlach
  • Brave

• It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Truth
  • Wonder

• Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Good
  • Work

• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Cheer

• All generalizations are false, including this one.

  

  Mark Twain
  • False
  • Generalizations

• Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Dreamer

• I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

  

  Juan Gris
  • Emotion
  • Rule
  • Prefer

• Statutes that curtail her abortion choice are disturbingly suggestive of involuntary servitude, prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment, in that forced pregnancy requires a woman to provide continuous physical service to the fetus in order to further the state's asserted interest.

  

  Dawn Johnsen
  • Abortion
  • Pregnancy
  • Amendments

• People often ask whether Obama passes the 'kishka test:' whether he likes Israel special, not in the same way he likes Taiwan or South Korea? Does he? I think the kishka test was decided when he visited Israel. I think the reaction there was emotional and genuine.

  

  Michael Oren
  • Emotional
  • Special
  • Decided

• If I understand correctly, part of the objection to homosexuality used to have to do with the fact that gay people didn't reproduce. Part of it seems to have to do, as a lot of Christian resistance to gayness does, with a dim view of sex that is not procreative, and that is therefore lascivious.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Christian
  • Sex

• Once the rugby league finished, those that actually like the oval sports, the rugby league and the AFL, swapped from Channel Nine to Ten, so there was some very heartening figures there for AFL in Sydney, particularly in the last hour of football.

  

  Eddie McGuire
  • Football
  • League
  • Rugby

• All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Emotion
  • Genuine
  • Involuntary