Mark Twain Quotes

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

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• I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Breakfast
  • Apple
  • Pie

• Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Think

• My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • House
  • Start
  • Stone

• For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Friendship

• A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • Consequences
  • Cope

• Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Career
  • You
  • Know

• The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Always
  • Priority
  • Hockey

• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Life
  • Different
  • Picture

• In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Real
  • Rich
  • Poor

• It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Think
  • Earth
  • Gift

• The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Life
  • Greatest

• So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Age
  • Picture
  • Learn

• In my experience, scientists are not always the most socially adjusted people, and may have habits and fascinations outside of their work that others might consider odd.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Times
  • Project
  • Got

• I'm confident and really optimistic.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Really
  • Optimistic
  • Confident

• When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Parents

• I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Think
  • Political
  • Rest

• Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Live
  • Day
  • Questions

• If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.

  

  Karen Black
  • Daughter
  • Actress
  • Lifestyle

• They are beautiful monsters... And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • World
  • Live
  • Together

• You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • Men
  • Power
  • Night

• But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.

  

  William Cowper
  • Heaven
  • Sail
  • Coast

• Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Live
  • Die
  • Sorry