Mark Twain Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
-
I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
-
It's a massive consumer frustration around the world about how long they have to wait after the U.S. to see television shows and movies. In the U.S., there's the frustration of having to wait a year to watch a movie in the format that you choose.
-
I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
-
May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
-
Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
-
No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
-
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
-
Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
-
You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
-
Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
-
Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
-
War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
-
If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.
-
Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
-
Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.
-
Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
-
I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.
-
Although my grandmother lived out her long life in the shadow of Rainy Mountian, the immense landscape of the continental interior lay like memory in her blood
-
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
-
Working is hard and distracts from having fun.
-
a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up one’s watch, since together with the man, the whole world is destroyed; the last letter is instantly reduced to dust and, with it, all the postmen; and like smoke, vanishes the estate bequeathed to a nonexistent progeny.
-
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
-
Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.
