
He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality,
marking vulnerable points. —
Ayn Rand

You have been
marking the passages that seem to approve of your own character. —
Virginia Woolf
Marking and underscoring a book makes it more —
Dale Carnegie

The dragon
marking rested, his fangs concealed and his eyes shut.
"Your dragon is pleased," she said.
"Indeed, he is. —
Susan Scott

The great men of the earth are but the
marking-stones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion. —
Giuseppe Mazzini

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it
marking you down if you did the same thing. —
Margaret Atwood
Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him. —
Edgar Allan Poe

I suddenly see us from above. I do that all the time now. I think it's because I'm losing my humanity and it's my way of
marking my descent into hell. —
Karen Marie Moning

Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of
marking. —
Ellen Lupton

Far from
marking the end of nationalism, the IPL is the ultimate triumph of that principle: a global tournament in which the same nation always wins. —
Gideon Haigh

I listen to the tick of an unseen clock
marking moments of time long passed ... —
James Frey

Noah had been living when he was murdered. Gansey had been
marking time. —
Maggie Stiefvater

He wanted his handprints
marking her body like a primal claiming, and wanted to hear her beg for more. —
Pepper Winters

The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period
marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time. —
Charlaine Harris

real living is experienced only in the pages of books. Otherwise, it is the mere
marking of time. 42 —
Saurav Jha

I would have played Tom Finney in his overcoat - there would have been four men
marking him when we were kickin' in. —
Bill Shankly

It was simply a
marking of time with no meaningful changes. —
Lois Lowry

You've been treading water," she said. "You're
marking the years, not living them. —
Robyn Carr

Far from
marking the outer edge of the solar system, as those schoolroom maps so cavalierly imply, Pluto is barely one-fifty-thousandth of the way. —
Bill Bryson

Life, a spirit roused, two souls rejoined,
marking it the most significant moment in my life as she became one with me. —
A.L. Jackson

Kids are like pissing cats or burrowing moles,
marking off land within land, each section with its own rules, beliefs, laws of engagement. —
Zadie Smith

You're mine, little red," Iron growled. " And I'm
marking you in every damn way so you know who you belong to. —
Laurann Dohner

It feels like he's
marking me. Like he's preparing me for something monumental. That could both change and ruin my life. —
Katy Evans

I don't let guys do hickeys. That's like a dog
marking his territory or something. —
Eliza Dushku

Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-
marking you. —
Abby Wambach

The sun was still
marking the passage of the first bright hour in a history that was not destined to be all so bright. —
Nathaniel Hawthorne

You cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ... disturbing my placid universe ...
marking the landscape within me ... —
John Geddes
Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00. —
Charles Proteus Steinmetz

I labor grimly on these sentences, wondering all the while if prose is but the gravestone
marking the forsaking of wildness —
Maggie Nelson