Mark Twain Quotes
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
Quotes to Explore
-
God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
-
I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
-
I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
-
The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?
-
I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.
-
It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting.
-
I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.
-
The vice presidential candidate does not usually make much difference at the polls. But that may be changing as voters become more aware that the understudy must be ready to take over if needed.
-
Tokenization applies to scarce assets. Today, the most appropriate thing to tokenize is something that's purely digital. Bitcoin and ethereum are the canonical.
-
I love retweeting things and seeing how many fans are on other people's pages.
-
As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.
-
The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.
-
I've outlasted many marriages at Random House.
-
I just want to be able to have fun, make a living, feed my family and create something that I'm proud of, and I'm all those things. It's great.
-
This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.
-
Though Christ a thousand times in Bethleham be born And not within thyself, Thy soul will be forlorn
-
My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to Broadway and a friend of mine, Lauren Bacall, was in Hollywood filming with Humphrey Bogart. She told one of her producers I was great in my play, and he saw it and cast me in 'The Strange Love of Martha Ivers'.
-
I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city.
-
She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!
-
When I deal with folks I know casually, that are either famous or were famous. To be a big star, you have to be a little delusional. Nothing else matters than being that star. It's a bit weird.
-
What is needed is a marriage of two impulses, a coupling of the urge to do something positive with the willingness to constantly re-evaluate how effectively our actions lead to our goal - that of ending world hunger.
-
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
