I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.
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MARK TWAIN he called you a hoe cuz he couldnt stop thinking of you with someone else and that scared him he cal...
WOW Soccer couldnt afford training camps or anything like that.
BRUCE MORROW I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and p...
KID ROCK I think you have to relax about aging. What else can you do?
FELICITY KENDAL Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think abou...
CHARLES LAMB Bound by custom or unique by choice.
MARGARET MCHEYZER In the East, fames are won.
In the west, deeds are done.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation.
ROGER SCRUTON I wanna be remembered as the girl who always smiled.
the one who could always brighten your day.
eve...
RANA MAGDY What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattere...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
JACKSON BROWNE He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I have always wanted to know what I couldnt see, I always wanted to know what I still cannot see, ye...
M.AREEB RIAZ The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
VINCENT VAN GOGH It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it w...
STANLEY KUBRICK I think the market won't react positively to it, but I think it is much ado about nothing.
TIM GHRISKEY She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.
JERRY SPINELLI Mark Twain.
FRIENDS I want to be remembered as the girl who always smiles even when her heart is broken. And the one tha...
ANON. It's nuts. There are so many Nebraska-crazed fans. That's all they think about. I guess there's noth...
ALEX GORDON Don't you think 'Mark is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?" Julian was saying as Emma approac...
CASSANDRA CLARE I think it's so new that people haven't heard about it yet.
DENISE WILSON Right from the start, I loved the works of Mark Twain. Every time I read about Tom Sawyer, I'd g...
JOHN GRISHAM I hope if nothing else, we can get across the idea that the administration has been wonderful about ...
MARY SHAPIRO [After Dan Harris left his job at WCSH-TV in Portland, Maine, he had some trouble on the job market....
DAN HARRIS I, Mark Twain being of sound mind, have spent everything
MARK TWAIN Milestones aren't what I think about much.
CRAIG NEWMARK I am in the fighting game. I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don...
CONOR MCGREGOR There's nothing revolutionary about it, ... but I don't think that matters.
JOHN TINKER I'm glad they are out. I know people know where the checkpoints are and can avoid them, but I still ...
JOE WEBB I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airpo...
ROMAN COPPOLA I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nucl...
STEPHEN GREENBLATT When he finally stopped calling, the hush felt strange. It felt like the whole world went silent whe...
RACHEL VINCENT Mark Twain: A Life
RON POWERS He's definitely made his mark. I think for Jeff the best is yet to come. I think he is going to blos...
CINDY VIRDO I do think about having babies a lot, actually. I think I look forward to that more than anything el...
ADAM RODRIGUEZ I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was ...
ODED FEHR This is awful. I was feeling really glamorous in the dress and now I can't even bear to think about ...
SARAH HARDING I think Paul and I are probably alike in that we're reluctant to talk about something that is not re...
ROBERT REDFORD I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.
ICE CUBE I can't say anything about it because I haven't seen it. I don't think Michael has seen it yet eithe...
BRIDGET BOYLE Mark Twain cannot be defined.
HAL HOLBROOK We thought basically, if I medal, we will think about it. After I won, (Baylor) coach (Clyde) Hart a...
JEREMY WARINER Anytime that Mark, Tracy and I get a chance to play together, we're really excited about that. I thi...
ZONA JONES I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.
BERNADINE DOHRN I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it ...
CARL YASTRZEMSKI Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
GARY LARSON I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am...
DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE Life goes on. I have to worry about other things. If that's what they think is best, there's nothing...
CRAIG FREDERICK It's all about my run on that day. I was just thinking about my skiing, I don't really think about a...
CAITLIN CICCONE As a person i couldnt say, although i am well apuainted with tales of his atrocities. every time bro...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything ...
J. A. KONRATH There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it ...
MARK TWAIN There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it ...
MARK TWAIN I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it ...
CARL YASTRZEMSKI I really haven't thought about it much just because it's nothing good. So I would rather just not th...
CECIL FIELDER I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.
RUTH RENDELL The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.
VINCENT VAN GOGH The more I think about it,the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others
VINCENT VAN GOGH Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you...
MARK TWAIN I read from Mark Twain's lips one or two of his good stories. He has his own way of thinking, saying...
HELEN KELLER His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the wh...
MARK TWAIN I'm not trying to fix you; I don't think you need to be fixed. I'm not trying to turn you into someo...
TAHEREH MAFI I think there is an energy about the Games we haven't experienced yet.
BARRY DANCER But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way ...
EDMOND ABOUT It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the coun...
EDMOND ABOUT I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians,...
EDMOND ABOUT I fight fairly, and in good faith.
EDMOND ABOUT Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
EDMOND ABOUT Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna?
ABOUT LIFE Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
ABOUT LIFE I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too.
ABOUT LIFE I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo...
ABOUT LIFE At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering
my petunias, and thinking of noth...
EDMOND ABOUT I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that....
ZAHA HADID I kind of don't like to think about it. It freaks me out. What if I've peaked and I'm not even 30 ye...
ANNE JOHNSON To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wron...
THOMAS AQUINAS My giving birth was nothing when I think about all the people in Sri Lanka that have to give birth i...
M.I.A. I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens.
MEG ROSOFF What else could I do? You couldn't just say no. I had to think about...my...position.
HELEN MARYLES SHANKMAN Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."
[Mark...
MARK TWAIN I wrote about nothing else for 10 weeks.
MICHAEL SCHUERMAN I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.
NIGEL FARAGE To paraphrase Mark Twain, our demise is greatly exaggerated.
CHRIS DONLAY There are certain things I don't want to joke about. If it's about somebody else, it's f...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, bec...
HAROLD BLOOM a sobering finding ... it tells us you still have to worry about this, but you have to worry about s...
ANTHONY FAUCI I don't worry about what other people think. Everyone else worries for me,
JOHNNY WEIR In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. ...
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI Nothing is too controversial, but you have to think about how to do it with sensitivity. I don't...
STEWART LEE I have fun, but I think about the games. But, I don't think I obsess about it.
FELIX HERNANDEZ I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just th...
BRIAN WILSON When I do my concerts, you have got to think about everything else; so you have got to think about y...
JODI BENSON I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
YOLANDA ADAMS I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.
HUGH GRANT I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.
AARON RODGERS I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
VICTORIA JUSTICE I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.
DAVID STERN I think for comedians, acting is their natural progression. It's all about progression.
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MARK TWAIN The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
MARK TWAIN All generalizations are false, including this one.
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MARK TWAIN As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
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MARK TWAIN To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
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MARK TWAIN If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
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MARK TWAIN Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.
MARK TWAIN We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks, if we agree with him.
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MARK TWAIN Intellectual work is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.
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MARK TWAIN Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.
MARK TWAIN Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.
MARK TWAIN No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.
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MARK TWAIN When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
MARK TWAIN Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.
MARK TWAIN Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
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MARK TWAIN There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
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MARK TWAIN There isn't a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.
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MARK TWAIN Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
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MARK TWAIN A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
MARK TWAIN All right, then, I'll go to hell.
MARK TWAIN The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
MARK TWAIN Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.
MARK TWAIN If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be—a Christian.
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MARK TWAIN Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
MARK TWAIN Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
MARK TWAIN Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
MARK TWAIN I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.
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