#marks

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations. ↗

— Andre Gide

#degree #different #especially #interpretations #leave

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#fifty #forth #good #hundred #least

The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#little #live #makes #marks #pulp

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. ↗

— Simeon Strunsky

#famous #quoted #remarks #seldom #very

I think everyone holds back. I am always censoring myself and I'm sorry about it. But I always have to consider whether my remarks might cause someone pain. ↗

— John Hall

#always #am #back #cause #censoring

On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father. ↗

— Henry Benedict Stuart

#cause #father #feelings #give #greatest

Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#dialect #genteel #marks #terrible #those

V-J Day, or Victory in Japan Day, marks the date of the Japanese surrender that ended fighting in the Pacific. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#day #ended #fighting #japan #japanese

I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand - she wanted to play. See - teeth marks! ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#bold #day #grabbed #hammock #hand

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. ↗

— David Hilbert

#certain #game #marks #mathematics #meaningless