Mark Twain Quotes

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Mark Twain

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeFearTimeDeathManDie

There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, and see it through, and you're done. It's focused and very personal.

John Oates

YourselfWritingSongYouPersonal

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Mike Nichols

LoveJobKeyPlaceOpenSafe

I love 'Airplane,' the 'Naked Gun' films; everything the Zucker brothers have done is just awesome.

Drake Bell

LoveAirplaneGunDoneNakedJust

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.

David Wroblewski

ExperienceWorthTrueFirstEssay

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

MistakesOthersMoreOwnWeaknesses

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

Alison Goldfrapp

LifeIdeasWorldSocietyAnimals

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Woody Allen

GoodPeopleWorldBetterBad People

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

Paul Wellstone

PoliticsPeopleThinkTryingRight

I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator, to just be happy.

Nnedi Okorafor

OceanHappyBe HappyCalmDownGo

Making money, it seems, is all about the velocity of moving it around, so that it can exist in Hong Kong one moment and Wall Street a split second later.

Richard Dooling

MomentMoneyMovingMaking Money

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

Lyndon B. Johnson

LightYouWillLegislationBenefits

When I started auditioning, I'd take any audition I could get. The more dramatic ones didn't go as well as the comedic.

Leslie Mann

GoMoreDramaticTakeStartedWell

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