Marking Quotes

Time doesn't stop or give warning. It simply ticks along, marking time, ignoring humanity. — Amy Harmon

You don't like the idea of another female marking me? Then leave your brand there, warn them off. Show them who I belong to. — Suzanne Wright

The powdery sand caves under his weight and his bare feet sink at once marking the beach with shallow potholes — Stephanie Fleshman

Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do. — Reid Hoffman

When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime. — Don Roff

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Anchor buoys marking the dorymen's fishing trawl sank and then shot back to the surface. — Barbara Walsh

Since it seems your marking your territory , why don't you go ahead and pee on her while you're at it ? " ~ Cal — Nicole Reed

Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme. — Avi Rubin

Time marks us while we are marking time. — Theodore Roethke

The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school. — Christopher Fry

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things? — Owen Barfield

When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed. — Milan Kundera

And marking off time struck me as something like counting empty spaces - spaces you know can't ever be filled. — Bette Greene

T just seemed as if she were marking time while life rocketed past. — Soheir Khashoggi

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