Markers Quotes - Page 2

• He is a very complete, spectacular footballer. He always fights for the ball and tries to lose his marker to help his team-mates - either to defend or to have a shot on goal. For any football player in the Premiership, Scholes is a player you want to emulate. I would happily end my career with the medals that Scholes has. I am young and I hope that I will be able to surpass him - but it is not going to be easy.

  Cesc Fabregas

  Football, Team, Fighting

  9 Copy quote

• There have been plenty of markers that show that this [Iraq] is a country that is worth the investment, because once it emerges as a country that is a stabilising factor, you will have a very different kind of Middle East.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Iraq, Middle East

  4 Copy quote

• I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.

  Chris Marker

  Pseudonyms, Language

  13 Copy quote

• We continue to think of virginity as first intercourse. That ends up minimizing and marginalizing other things kids are engaged in, like oral sex. And it's not going to feel particularly good for girls as the big marker of adulthood.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Sex, Kids

  Source: www.macleans.ca

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.

  Amy Poehler

  Hair, Color, Eyebrows

  "Tina Fey on Top". Interview with Amy Poehler, www.marieclaire.com. April 10, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I used to take Sharpies and draw on my pillowcases, and then go to sleep on them and wake up with red marker from the drool all on my face.

  Kid Cudi

  Sleep, Wake Up, Red

  4 Copy quote

• My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.

  Sally Phillips

  Running, Mean, Blood

  5 Copy quote

• Progress is measured by milestones. What many good people lack are markers that might tell them how they are actually doing. Goals can become a ritual or a fetish, but in the right measure they can give us some much needed reference points. No wonder some seem discouraged! Minus such milestones, we often feel minus in our lives

  Neal A. Maxwell

  People, Generosity, Giving

  5 Copy quote

• A father, finding time for what is most important is the true marker of a successful person.

  Rick Warren

  Father, Successful, Important

  4 Copy quote

• When I was about 13, 14 - 13, I would carry a magic marker with me everywhere I went so I could write the word "Bowie" on everything that wasn't mine.

  RuPaul

  Writing, Magic, Bowie

  "RuPaul Really, Really Likes The Matrix". kotaku.com. May 21, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

  Daniel Levitin

  Creativity, Evolution, Possibility

  Daniel J. Levitin (2006). “This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession”, p.258, Penguin

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In my book ["Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40 percent decline in all markers for empathy among college students, with most of it taking place in the past years.

  Judy Woodruff

  Book, Technology, College

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The landscape in Montgomery and in the South is just saturated with imagery. Markers are everywhere. There's a marker for the first Confederate post office, there's a marker for a ball that Robert E. Lee hosted, there's a marker for where Jefferson Davis had a meeting. We love reminding people about all that was going on in the mid-nineteenth century.

  Bryan Stevenson

  People, Office, Balls

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a landscape littered with all of this imagery about the nobility of the Civil War and the Confederate effort and struggle, the absence of markers says something really powerful.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Powerful, War, Struggle

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My artistic process involves pens, gesso, acrylic paint, and markers, all on vellum. I use a window painter's technique and paint on the backside of my image before I mess with the front.

  Chelsea Martin

  Technique, Use, Artistic

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• They [investment bankers] don't even want the stuff that they've got, you know the fancy cars and houses. Their consumption is basically just a keeping up with the Joneses or let's buy the markers of success because this is what I'm supposed to have and this is what I'm supposed to do. And they are working so hard that they don't even have the time to think about what they might actually desire.

  Larkin Grimm

  Thinking, Fancy Cars, House

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted to separate color from race. Distinguishing color - light, black, in-between - as the marker for race is really an error.

  Toni Morrison

  Errors, Light, Race

  "'I Regret Everything': Toni Morrison Looks Back On Her Personal Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 20, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Recently while browsing in a secondhand bookstore I bought a paperback copy of The Intellectual and the City, but I was unable to read it. When I got home I discovered that the original owner had highlighted the entire book - literally. Every line on every page had been drawn through with a bright green Magic Marker. It was a terrifying example of a mind that had lost all power of discrimination.

  Florence King

  Book, Home, Cities

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.93, Macmillan

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is like something else is one of the earliest markers of the poetic spirit, the nascent poet.

  Tony Hoagland

  Spirit, Poetic, Metaphor

  8 Copy quote

• Sometimes I don't know what takes me over during a game. Sometimes I just feel I have moved to a different place and I can make the pass, score the goal or go past my marker at will.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Past, Games, Goal

  "Zizou Is the Boss Now, Says Vieira" by Joe Melling, www.espnfc.com. July 02, 2000.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every mile marker can be met with some measure of trepidation, in a race or in life. Am I on target? Do I have what it takes to finish strong? Am I taking care to stay nourished so I can endure? Is my training proving to be sufficient? Am I prepared for the hills? It is impossible to fathom the full distance, so we make our way to the next mile marker, and the next, checking in with ourselves as we go.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Strong, Distance, Race

  11 Copy quote

• So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.

  Teju Cole

  Book, Smartphones, Cities

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wrong ways. But it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe you don't want to deal with (marching), the permanent marker and poster board. But try something else. Carry someone's groceries. Chat with the custodian in your office building. Donate blood. Live in Rwanda for a year. Write letters to the Department of Buildings. Learn to knit. It is only going to get better from here on out.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Writing, Blood, Years

  37 Copy quote

• Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.

  Susan Sontag

  Heart, Appetite For Life, Mind

  4 Copy quote

• What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fear, Men, Land

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.79, Vintage

  5 Copy quote

  Show source