Mark Twain Quotes

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Mark Twain

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

Topics

PeopleAccomplishGroupFirstTwo

I've made several careers out of people underestimating me - it's almost an advantage worth cultivating.

John Hickenlooper

PeopleMeWorthOutAdvantageMade

The existing documentary makers still believe that it is impossible to produce drama material in this State, otherwise they would be doing it, they say.

Ann Macbeth

ImpossibleBelieveDoingDramaSay

As a kid, I trained to be an Olympic gymnast. My schedule was rigorous. Four hours a day, Monday through Saturday, I was at the gym. My body was like a boy's, narrow hips, flat-chested, wide shoulders. When I was 12, I badly injured my ankle and was forced to stop training immediately.

Amanda de Cadenet

DayTrainingMondaySaturdayBody

In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified.

Robert Burns

HeartFireBelieveI BelieveBeen

When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.

Martina Hingis

MotherMeDinnerMeetingsFriends

Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'

Michael Leunig

LoveFreedomCourageArtSoulMe

That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.

Don Yaeger

SuccessGreatTimeBaseballWorld

It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement.

Anya Taylor-Joy

WorldMatterWhereGotSenseWho

It's rather nice to think that a song such as 'What Kind of Fool Am I?' is a standard that will be around for many, many years.

Anthony Newley

FoolSongThinkNiceKindWill

I'm not a good hipster - if I let my moustache grow for weeks, it just looks like I have dirt on my face. I'll never have a glorious handlebar moustache.

Win Butler

GoodFaceGrowLooksNeverDirt

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

Plato

EducationTrainingImportantMost

When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.

Philip Zimbardo

DoorBehaviorSomeoneSeenKlan

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