Mark Wiatrek quote: "He tells it like it is. That's why the Foster staff nominated him. A good reporter knows he might offend people at time, but you know what? You just tell the truth. And that's what Gary does."

An internal breakthrough is a burden, an external one is a blessing.
MARK

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody ...
MARK TWAIN

[He was] a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy...
MARK TWAIN

In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of consci...
MARK TWAIN

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
MARK TWAIN

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be - a Christian.
MARK TWAIN

In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards
MARK TWAIN

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander you, and the ...
MARK TWAIN

I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it.
MARK TWAIN

When I think of the number of disagreeable people that I know who have gone to a better world, I am ...
MARK TWAIN

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him unt...
MARK TWAIN

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.
MARK LAWRENCE

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
MARK TWAIN

How empty is theory in the presence of fact
MARK TWAIN

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part cowar...
MARK TWAIN

In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other ins...
MARK ROMANEK

And I tell you, having girls has made me a much better man. I have friends who are fathers, but they...
MARK WAHLBERG

If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy no...
MARK HELPRIN

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
MARK TWAIN

Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab c...
MARK TEIXEIRA

Fear of failure held me back from being a DIYer for many years, especially after a few early attempt...
MARK FRAUENFELDER

The cologne you pick should make you feel good when you go out with it. I think confidence comes acr...
MARK RONSON

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elder...
MARK FOLEY

There are 13 Asian countries that still have elephants, and Elephant Family is looking to invest in ...
MARK SHAND

When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a con...
MARK HAMILL

I know my 'Archie' history.
MARK WAID

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
MARK TWAIN

Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its var...
MARK ROTHKO

The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on t...
MARK HELPRIN

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then th...
MARK ZUCKERBERG

There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America ...
MARK HADDON

To open up new markets and create American jobs, we need to make global bilateral free trade agreeme...
MARK MCKINNON

It wasn't until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We...
MARK ZUCKERBERG

'Star Trek' was a big thing for me. I kind of grew up with that. And 'Twilight Zone'...
MARK PELLEGRINO

Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. T...
MARK BOAL

One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the...
MARK BOAL

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
MARK TWAIN

I've been thinking, in an age of Trump where you don't know the direction of the country, th...
MARK KIRK

Advertising works most effectively when it's in line with what people are already trying to do. ...
MARK ZUCKERBERG

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
MARK TWAIN

The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government an...
MARK HELPRIN

I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures...
MARK HYMAN

While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impa...
MARK HYMAN

I can live for two months on a good compliment.
MARK TWAIN

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
MARK TWAIN

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
MARK TWAIN

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.
MARK TWAIN

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.
MARK HELPRIN

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely ...
MARK TWAIN

I must have a prodigious amount of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up!
MARK TWAIN

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.
MARK TWAIN

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.
MARK TWAIN

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its...
MARK TWAIN

They did not know it was impossible so they did it
MARK TWAIN

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my ...
MARK TWAIN

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the wri...
MARK TWAIN

If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
MARK TWAIN

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
MARK TWAIN

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the ca...
MARK TWAIN

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
MARK TWAIN

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
MARK TWAIN

A lie is when you say something happened which didn't happen. But there is only ever one thing which...
MARK HADDON

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
MARK TWAIN

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.
MARK TWAIN

The universe is still and complete. Everything that ever was, is; everything that ever will be, is -...
MARK HELPRIN

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
MARK TWAIN

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.
MARK TWAIN

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
MARK TWAIN

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.
MARK TWAIN

There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the hea...
MARK TWAIN

There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock...
MARK TWAIN

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon
MARK TWAIN

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
MARK TWAIN

It takes an enemy and a friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart. The one to slander you, ...
MARK TWAIN

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalist...
MARK TWAIN

Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle...
MARK TWAIN

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.
MARK TWAIN

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know, I've done it a thousand times.
MARK TWAIN

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others.
MARK TWAIN

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it
MARK TWAIN

Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law.
MARK TWAIN

A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the l...
MARK TWAIN

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
MARK TWAIN

We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.
MARK TWAIN

No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which has been produced b...
MARK HOPKINS

...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a p...
MARK TWAIN

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the ...
MARK TWAIN

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when ...
MARK TWAIN

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
MARK TWAIN

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the real...
MARK TWAIN

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
MARK TWAIN

When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.
MARK FIDRYCH

A man can seldom -- very, very, seldom -- fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are t...
MARK TWAIN

The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.
MARK MESSIER

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
MARK TWAIN

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any co...
MARK TWAIN

Every murder turns on a bright hot light, and a lot of people have to walk out of the shadows.
MARK HELLINGER

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. Whil...
MARK TWAIN

Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
MARK TWAIN

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.
MARK CAINE

I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. About a politician ...
MARK TWAIN

Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and establi...
MARK TWAIN

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
MARK TWAIN

What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who...
MARK TWAIN

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopts them.
MARK TWAIN

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred on me. However, few escape that distinction.
MARK TWAIN

He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.
MARK TWAIN

True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god.
MARK TWAIN

In his private heart no man much respects himself.
MARK TWAIN

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man muc...
MARK TWAIN

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to...
MARK TWAIN

The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence wh...
MARK TWAIN

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live...
MARK TWAIN

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.
MARK TWAIN

Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.
MARK FEENEY

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
MARK TWAIN

There are people who exaggerate so much that they can't tell the truth without lying.
MARK TWAIN

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happend. -Mark Twain.
MARK TWAIN

Hunger is the handmaid of genius
MARK TWAIN

In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worshi...
MARK TWAIN

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny
MARK TWAIN

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world....
MARK TWAIN

In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, a...
MARK TWAIN

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.
MARK TWAIN

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.
MARK TWAIN

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
MARK TWAIN

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
MARK TWAIN

The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice
MARK TWAIN

Etiquette requires us to admire the human race
MARK TWAIN

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
MARK TWAIN

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
MARK TWAIN

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out the window by man, but coaxed downstairs, a step at a time.
MARK TWAIN

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a t...
MARK TWAIN

When in doubt, tell the truth.
MARK TWAIN

Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
MARK TWAIN

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.
MARK TWAIN

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of s...
MARK TWAIN

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and ...
MARK TWAIN

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
MARK TWAIN

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.
MARK TWAIN

Even the best of friends need time apart.
MARK HEATH

Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it
MARK TWAIN

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
MARK TWAIN

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
MARK TWAIN

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
MARK TWAIN

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
MARK TWAIN

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning ...
MARK TWAIN

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one
MARK TWAIN

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the one...
MARK TWAIN

Be good and you will be lonely.
MARK TWAIN

Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but becau...
MARK TWAIN

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things ...
MARK TWAIN

When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one.
MARK TWAIN

It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right
MARK TWAIN

The very ink in which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
MARK TWAIN

Prejudice cannot see the things that are because it is always looking for things that aren't
MARK TWAIN

Prophecy: Two bull's eyes out of a possible million
MARK TWAIN

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be prai...
MARK TWAIN

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be w...
MARK TWAIN

Ethanol and biodiesel allow people to burn a cleaner form of energy.
MARK KENNEDY

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kit...
MARK HYMAN

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
MARK TWAIN

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know - not even the people that you know, but t...
MARK ZUCKERBERG

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.
MARK ZUCKERBERG

When I started Facebook from my dorm room in 2004, the idea that my roommates and I talked about all...
MARK ZUCKERBERG

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
MARK TWAIN

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
MARK TWAIN

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
MARK TWAIN

It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?
MARK HYMAN

Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real,...
MARK HYMAN

Stay away from milk. It is nature's perfect food - but only if you are a calf.
MARK HYMAN

The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital.
MARK HYMAN

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, a...
MARK TWAIN

Growing up, I think I was arrested 20-odd times by the Boston police. The good news is that I've...
MARK WAHLBERG

When I was a rapper, the groupies didn't have to try too hard with me. Just show up at the hotel...
MARK WAHLBERG

I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same ...
MARK WAHLBERG

If I succeed in business but fail as a father, then I've failed.
MARK WAHLBERG

There was a time in my life when I was going in and out of houses that were extraordinarily differen...
MARK HADDON

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.
MARK HADDON

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
MARK HADDON

I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turnin...
MARK HADDON

I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We...
MARK HADDON

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
MARK TWAIN

I've slipped on occasion into the realm of irresponsible invective, but I try to avoid it and ge...
MARK MCKINNON

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.
MARK MCKINNON

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, t...
MARK MCKINNON

Wind and solar power are land-intensive, a green sin, but not energy-dense, and affordable only when...
MARK MCKINNON

Remaining vigilant toward this ever-present threat means constantly learning how better to protect o...
MARK KENNEDY

I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called &...
MARK BURNETT

We can't wait until elections to fight for what we care about. We can't hope for a benevolen...
MARK PINCUS

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
MARK TWAIN

I made my name and reputation DJing in hip-hop clubs in New York. 'Celebrity DJ' is a term t...
MARK RONSON

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure tha...
MARK TWAIN

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
MARK TWAIN

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
MARK TWAIN

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed rig...
MARK TWAIN

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one...
MARK TWAIN

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
MARK TWAIN

It is by the goodness of God that we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech...
MARK TWAIN

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself
MARK TWAIN

He tells it like it is. That's why the Foster staff nominated him. A good reporter knows he might offend people at time, but you know what? You just tell the truth. And that's what Gary does.

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He tells it like it is. That's why the Foster staff nominated him. A good reporter knows he might offend people at time, but you know what? You just tell the truth. And that's what Gary does.

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