FastSaying

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.


Mark McGwire

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at...
MARK MCGWIRE I think baseball owes McGwire a gratitude of thanks for putting baseball back on the map where it sh...
JOSE CANSECO Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, li...
BOB GREENE Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime...
BOB GREENE This puts the Jewish community on the map as it relates to a very large and spread-out city, ... The...
JEFFREY KLEIN With everyone back and the awesome recruits that we had coming in this year it has been absolutely i...
KRISTEN MERLINO Everyone was just getting the kinks out, and it was fun to back with the guys. I think everyone feel...
DWAYNE DE ROSARIO To me, baseball is as honorable as any other business. It is the most honest pastime in the world. I...
CHARLES COMISKEY This puts us back on the map.
CORY ROSS VIEW FROM A HILL

I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
JOHN TOTTENHAM I love Indiana University. I think it is an exciting institution and it has been a privilege to serv...
ADAM HERBERT Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.
JIM SENSENBRENNER I love baseball. I love watching baseball. As a broadcaster, I get to watch the best 700 players put...
BERT BLYLEVEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden...
GARY SHEFFIELD I certainly think that's an area we need to look strongly at as to how everyone has to register and ...
ANDY KAHAN It just felt good when I hit it. Coach has been telling us to swing at our pitches. Everybody has ju...
ADRIAN MOLINA Bill brought baseball into the 20th century. Before Bill, baseball was just win or lose. But he made...
HANK GREENBERG I'm just happy when I think back at it 20 years ago and look at the rings I have. I'm excited about ...
DENNIS EDWARDS I want to be part of a baseball team, and the sport will always be part of my life. It has been a pa...
CORY GALLAGHER Both teams start at zero and it's even going in. I don't think records have much impact on the serie...
ROB SUMNER We think this will be a big boost for baseball in China and it will help promote a sport that has be...
PAUL ARCHEY I think it's pretty exciting that the celebration is back. Everyone missed it.
MIKE PETHERBRIDGE The way I looked at it, wrestling was a sport that could interest those who aren't cut out to play f...
MICHAEL DISANTO Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
GINA GREENLEE I just think that Mark has got the attributes it would really take to lead the city - fresh leadersh...
DUSTY RHODES This was a great high school baseball game. We came out on the positive side today, but both teams p...
BRIAN CHAMPION I don't think it takes a magician to see that that is just a total off-the-mark nonsensical approach...
ROBERT BRYAN This puts Orlando on the map as a medical destination.
BUDDY DYER You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idio...
RHYS IFANS I hope the guys just look at it as exciting and fun and don't put too much pressure on themselves be...
LARY KORN I can assure you that nobody finds it exciting to come to the ballpark this time of year and have to...
FIELDIN CULBRETH Indiana University Kokomo is a much different place than it was a year ago. In fact, it is well on i...
KOKOMO PERSPECTIVE The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is...
DREW BREES The hernia has been fixed now and I don't want to break it again, so it would be pointless playing o...
AARON HUGHES It was a very exciting offensive game, ... Hopefully it won't get like that this year. I think our d...
JEFF FAINE He just thinks about baseball. He said he doesn't go out. He just wants to go to the ballpark.
BRUCE BOCHY If you look at the Nile on a map of Egypt, you don't think it has moved very much, but the river...
SARAH PARCAK I wonder why there is a designated hitter in baseball after all these years? As an experiment, it se...
JAY MOHR If Washington was not the capital of the United States, there would have been no chance that a baseb...
PETER ANGELOS You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson...
DEYTH BANGER If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a mana...
LOU BROCK Well it has been very exciting and very changing as well. Celebrating the 40th year and having the a...
CILLA BLACK I really think it lifts everyone’s spirits, ... The very fact it’s moving on and we have the whole...
JOE DAILEY But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroe...
JOHN THORN You can't put a price on what Mark McGwire brings to the Cardinals organization. The responsibil...
TONY LA RUSSA We have been awful vocal against the referees this year and that might be coming back to bite us. I ...
CHRIS GRATTON The circus has been around longer than baseball, but every year it's a different show. We're really ...
DONNA LARKIN You saw the last couple of years when the owner of the Anaheim Angels [Arte Moreno] started doing th...
DANYS BAEZ It has been an interesting journey when you look at it like that. But this has been our goal since t...
BRANDON EVANS I think it's important that we got the ruling, ... It puts the election back on schedule and ratifie...
BOB WHITE I think that tennis has been in a place for many years without any change. Davis Cup and Fed Cup has...
MAHESH BHUPATHI This puts entertainment officially on the map as a key market for the company.
AL DAVIS I really didn't know what to think at first. Then it hit me that I won when I went back to grab my s...
MATT COENEN Everyone has a gift.
It's up to you to decide what you do with it.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS George's defensive work this year has been absolutely fantastic. If you look at the amount of work h...
LAURIE FISHER Guys said some key things in the room to stay confident. We've been coming back on teams all year. W...
BRACKEN KEARNS It was especially trying on both counts because one was an accident and it might have been prevented...
CAPT. APRIL CONWAY It's a lot easier for me to play tennis than it is for baseball because I picked baseball up after n...
CURT WHEELER The way things turned out, there won't be as much damage as I once thought and I'm optimistic the fa...
BILL CLEMENT I think it's just the year of experience under her belt. Last year, she was trying it out to see if ...
KATRINA VAN TASSEL It hasn't been as big of an adjustment as you'd think. Everyone has elevated their play.
JOEY AVILA We're not supposed to win, so it puts pressure on everybody else. We've played good baseball like we...
CARL EVERETT We say that Apple Computer has been using the Apple mark in connection with musical content. It uses...
GEOFFREY VOS You could look at it two different ways. You could look at it as being relieved, we're moving on. Bu...
DALLAS DRAKE I'd been gearing up to working in theatre since coming out of drama school, but it was an exciti...
AMANDA BURTON Everyone feels that Penn State is back. We're back on the map.
DAN CONNOR Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushw...
JOSEPH MONNINGER I want to win a national championship and I think our team has the ability, without a doubt next yea...
BRADY QUINN This weather doesn't help any of us, but we've been lucky that it has not been at a growing time. Sp...
ALAN WOOLEY There has been poor performance so far this year in the North Sea. The United States certainly is no...
KEVIN NORRISH When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life....
MARTIN YAN It was a tough game. It was very fast and very exciting. They got the first goal on us, which has be...
HOWIE DRAPER It's been a remarkable year for us. It hasn't been perfect. But it's at the point now where I wish I...
SARAH LOWE Every time I think about it, it makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. There's been some re...
HAL DILLASHAW It has been a frustrating season for everyone, ... It is hard to believe that we are out of it this ...
ODALIS PEREZ We're making a mark. We're putting Richmond on the map as far as healthy foods go.
DOUG ROBERTS I think everybody that came here can appreciate the high level of baseball played by both sides. It ...
STEVE ANTICH I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was neve...
FAY VINCENT To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.
DAVE WINFIELD Although I cannot see your face
As you flip these poems awhile,
Somewhere from some far-of...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN You go back to the creation of organized sports in the United States before the Civil War, and you s...
DICK DAVIES I had a lot of emotion from missing a lot of games last year, just the emotion of coming back. Was I...
JULIAN PETERSON It puts a lot more pressure on the type of players that we recruit. We have to get players who we fe...
GREG ALLEN I still think anyone could look at it and raise question about its constitutionality. It comes back ...
MARGARET PLANE Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out...
ANTON YELCHIN You look at Wilt and how dominant he was inside, this guy did it from the perimeter. So it puts an a...
PAUL SILAS Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symboliz...
ERNIE HARWELL There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark.
ZE FRANK The fans love the home runs, the home run competition between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
JOSE CANSECO That's an accomplishment for these guys. We're a young group, so it makes it exciting for next year....
DOUG SHORT I kind of felt a little disappointed in the way I played last year. This year has been an absolute b...
AMY HOLMAN I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers...
MAGIC JOHNSON It's been a great teaching opportunity because we've been able to look at the map, look at the Unite...
JENNIFER STEWART It just puts a smile on my face whenever I think about it.
KYLE SCHLICHER [Beltran] has it in him; he just has to bring it out, ... I think if he would have had a better year...
WILLIE RANDOLPH Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of it...
ARUNDHATI ROY It just happens that this national event is happening at the same time as the marathon. Its really e...
JUSTIN PITTS At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away fro...
PAT GILLICK

More Mark McGwire

I've been thinking about the record since I reached the fifty plateau. But you think about it an...
MARK MCGWIRE In '83, we went over to Amsterdam. I just remember people saying, 'Baseball's just start...
MARK MCGWIRE You don't know that you'll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet.
MARK MCGWIRE The steroids I did were on a very, very low dosage. I didn't want to take a lot of that. I didn&...
MARK MCGWIRE I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box....
MARK MCGWIRE I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at...
MARK MCGWIRE Once and for all, I did not use steroids or any other illegal substance.
MARK MCGWIRE This is a season I will never forget and I hope everybody in baseball never forgets.
MARK MCGWIRE That statement comes from the heart and that's the way it is,
MARK MCGWIRE I'm ecstatic they even thought about me taking the number down and being here for the weekend, ... I...
MARK MCGWIRE Only sixteen players have hit fifty or more homers in a season. To me, that's a very special milesto...
MARK MCGWIRE I think it's outstanding and I'm ecstatic they invited me,
MARK MCGWIRE I'm a very positive person and I just wish everybody else would be positive.
MARK MCGWIRE I've moved on from it and I wish the media would, ... I've made my statement in Washington, that's m...
MARK MCGWIRE I know it's tough. Everybody in baseball knows its tough. I'm just going to give it my best shot.
MARK MCGWIRE I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.
MARK MCGWIRE I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've receiv...
MARK MCGWIRE Rod was a very meaningful person in my life, instrumental in my becoming the player that I was and t...
MARK MCGWIRE In spring training, it was one of my goals to get fifty homers. Now everything is basically icing on...
MARK MCGWIRE I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box....
MARK MCGWIRE This is a great thing that's happening in baseball. We don't know if it will ever happen again.
MARK MCGWIRE Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It wa...
MARK MCGWIRE I had good years when I took steroids, and I had bad years when I took steroids. But no matter what,...
MARK MCGWIRE Somebody gets into September with fifty, they have a shot down the stretch to either tie, break or g...
MARK MCGWIRE turning this into a positive.
MARK MCGWIRE I tell you what, I was so shocked because I didn't think the ball had enough to get out. It's an abs...
MARK MCGWIRE I've moved on from it and I wish the media would. It's pretty simple. I made my statement in Washing...
MARK MCGWIRE An internal breakthrough is a burden, an external one is a blessing.
MARK I'm a city boy. I grew up in a big city, in Birmingham, and I want to write about a city. It'...
MARK BILLINGHAM Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
MARK TWAIN I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always ...
MARK SHRIVER My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
MARK TWAIN Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
MARK TWAIN It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha...
MARK TWAIN We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
MARK SKOUSEN The travel and tourism industry is the lifeblood of many states around the country - including Flori...
MARK FOLEY The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
MARK TWAIN India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India ...
MARK TWAIN Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
MARK TWAIN I never let schooling interfere with my education.
MARK TWAIN Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
MARK TWAIN Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
MARK TWAIN The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed rig...
MARK TWAIN There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
MARK TWAIN In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
MARK TWAIN Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here firs...
MARK TWAIN But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one...
MARK TWAIN The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
MARK TWAIN The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
MARK TWAIN Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of ti...
MARK TWAIN It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
MARK TWAIN The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.
MARK TWAIN The lack of money is the root of all evil.
MARK TWAIN Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
MARK TWAIN When Facebook was getting started, nothing used real identity - everything was anonymous or pseudony...
MARK ZUCKERBERG Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
MARK TWAIN Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
MARK TWAIN My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But mos...
MARK WARNER There are lies, damned lies and statistics.
MARK TWAIN Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
MARK TWAIN Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside...
MARK TWAIN Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
MARK TWAIN The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
MARK TWAIN Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
MARK TWAIN I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
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.
MARK TWAIN 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.
MARK TWAIN I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.
MARK ZUCKERBERG The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a ba...
MARK TWAIN The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
MARK TWAIN There was a point when I was 15 or 16 that I realized that my father wanted me to be a loner. I deci...
MARK VONNEGUT There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fan...
MARK ZANDI Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we sp...
MARK PAGEL I made my name and reputation DJing in hip-hop clubs in New York. 'Celebrity DJ' is a term t...
MARK RONSON Kids don't need to be taught the value of making; they are natural makers, at least until tradit...
MARK FRAUENFELDER Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
MARK TWAIN I think a lot of people who say they are bisexual aren't.
MARK GATISS Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is ...
MARK MCKINNON If I owned half of that dog, I would shoot my half.
MARK TWAIN I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.
MARK ZUCKERBERG Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other desce...
MARK HOPKINS Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it...
MARK HAMILL What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!
MARK MCKINNEY To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.
MARK EDWARDS What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed ...
MARK TWAIN When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B...
MARK TWAIN When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymu...
MARK TWAIN The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly...
MARK TWAIN By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfec...
MARK TWAIN So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.
MARK TWAIN The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes...
MARK TWAIN We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in itand stop there; lest w...
MARK TWAIN The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large mattertis the diff...
MARK TWAIN Say the report is exaggerated.
MARK TWAIN A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will ...
MARK TWAIN To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature Congressman.
MARK TWAIN I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than ...
MARK TWAIN A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; ...they squabble and scold and fight; t...
MARK TWAIN Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the st...
MARK TWAIN Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred mi...
MARK TWAIN Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to...
MARK TWAIN We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ...
MARK TWAIN Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people...
MARK TWAIN Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find...
MARK TWAIN Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood...
MARK TWAIN As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.
MARK TWAIN I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshol...
MARK TWAIN Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than...
MARK TWAIN The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without burst...
MARK TWAIN When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.
MARK TWAIN All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
MARK TWAIN The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do wh...
MARK TWAIN To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand ...
MARK TWAIN All workers, whether they are employed in the private or public sector, should avoid living 'pay...
MARK SKOUSEN Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset ...
MARK GATISS I have a very dear family and very dear friends. They're my rock. These are people who knew me f...
MARK RUFFALO There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of t...
MARK ZANDI I'm nutty bunny number two. I love me and I love you.
MARK MCKINNEY Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the ...
MARK ZANDI James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t...
MARK WAHLBERG There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the ...
MARK GODDARD I couldn't have left my career as an actor on a better note than to have done a cameo in the Los...
MARK GODDARD I vaguely remember in the '90s when Calvin Klein started making unisex CK1. Don't worry abou...
MARK RONSON Well, right now we're so busy that I kind of had to put all the hobbies on hold. But I like goin...
MARK KELLY I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have t...
MARK FROST We have pension funds with 1.5 trillion euros investments, and they want to find business opportunit...
MARK RUTTE We need not to just kill the boat-smuggling business model: we also need to get rid of this asylum-s...
MARK RUTTE We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to...
MARK ZUCKERBERG Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can affor...
MARK ZANDI The best person to get something done is a busy person.
MARK BURNETT The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good...
MARK STEYN I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the pres...
MARK MCKINNON Having been heavily involved in the planning of a couple of G.O.P. conventions, my view is, we shoul...
MARK MCKINNON Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, t...
MARK HOPPUS The Bush tax cuts should be extended permanently for families with annual incomes of less than $250,...
MARK ZANDI In my movies, I'm not trying to erase any old image of myself, really. And also I'm not tryi...
MARK WAHLBERG When I'm in the middle of making a movie, I have blinders on; it's all about just getting th...
MARK WATERS Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
MARK TWAIN It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal...
MARK TWAIN Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired
MARK TWAIN It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
MARK TWAIN Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
MARK TWAIN Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting...
MARK TWAIN To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.
MARK TWAIN Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
MARK TWAIN The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itse...
MARK TWAIN Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would ...
MARK TWAIN If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don'...
MARK FUHRMAN There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.
MARK TWAIN The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things tha...
MARK TWAIN Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled
MARK TWAIN Necessity is the mother of "taking chances"
MARK TWAIN I remember riding my bike down the boardwalk with nowhere to go and looking at the girls. It was rea...
MARK RUFFALO Distance lends enchantment to the view
MARK TWAIN Be good and you will be lonesome.
MARK TWAIN Chastity - you can carry it too far
MARK TWAIN The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline ...
MARK RUSSELL To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler--and less trouble.
MARK TWAIN Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in it...
MARK TWAIN Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
MARK TWAIN Here's one of my bad habits: when I go to someone's house, I head straight to their bookshel...
MARK FRAUENFELDER Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk...
MARK BILLINGHAM China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main ...
MARK CARWARDINE When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.
MARK TWAIN There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many...
MARK TWAIN Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you.
MARK TWAIN Americans are notoriously ill-equipped for self-reflection. We're usually a very boisterous, out...
MARK FROST I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and lookin...
MARK TWAIN The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half ...
MARK EDWARDS A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
MARK RUTHERFORD Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would...
MARK TWAIN Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relati...
MARK TWAIN Wit and Humor -- if any difference, it is in duration -- lightning and electric light. Same material...
MARK TWAIN Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no...
MARK TWAIN There is a great deal of human nature in people.
MARK TWAIN If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
MARK TWAIN There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
MARK TWAIN The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monot...
MARK TWAIN Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat...
MARK TWAIN It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts th...
MARK TWAIN Lenders look at potential borrowers from many angles before extending credit: How much of its income...
MARK ZANDI Too many vital education dollars that should be spent in the classroom are bouncing around in the fe...
MARK KENNEDY There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles.
MARK ZUPAN Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God's right hand.' Her voice grew f...
MARK LAWRENCE Of all the various kinds of sexual intercourse, this has the least to recommend it. As an amusement,...
MARK TWAIN Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of t...
MARK TWAIN I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. ...
MARK UDALL I am quite amazed how, when people earn lots of money, they think they have to spend it on things th...
MARK HADDON Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.
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.
MARK TWAIN As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
MARK RUTTE He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magi...
MARK RYDELL