Mark Twain Quotes

It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

Mark Twain

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• Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Writing
  • Why
  • Fire

• Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Attitude
  • Excellence
  • Skill

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Time
  • Good
  • High

• With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Up
  • New
  • Eating

• I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Support

• I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Fight
  • Train
  • Wherever

• I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.

  

  Halsey
  • Single
  • Doing
  • Gold

• Truth never damages a cause that is just.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Never
  • Just

• My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never really been particularly interesting to me.

  

  Sam Palladio
  • Family
  • Art
  • Interesting

• I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Game
  • Same
  • Say

• I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Movies
  • Down
  • Million

• I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Important
  • Society
  • Most

• The first song I wrote was called 'Here I Go Falling In Love' I wrote it in the sixth grade.

  

  Babyface
  • Love
  • Song
  • Falling In Love

• Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • History
  • Political

• Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• As soon as you write about climate change, the first attempt to discredit you is, 'Well, you wrote this on a computer,' or, 'You took a plane to this conference.' So your opinion isn't valid.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • You
  • Change
  • Opinion

• When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Done
  • Waiting

• Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Health
  • Insurance
  • Nobody

• Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.

  

  Walt Disney
  • History
  • Together
  • Fun

• But the truth of the matter is that there is there is an opportunity for them to participate in the economic and political future of the country and certainly in the security life of the country.

  

  John Abizaid
  • Life
  • Country
  • Truth

• The biochemistry and biophysics are the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the organism. The intermediate level, the chords and tempos, has to do with how the biochemistry and biophysics are organized, arranged, played out in space and time to produce a creature who grows and divides and is.

  

  Ursula Goodenough
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• Life is a series of hard and easy runs.

  

  Hal Higdon
  • Life
  • Running
  • Easy

• It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Life