
“Mark: When did you learn to drive?
Courtney: About three seconds ago.”
These lines were the source of the name of the particular entities known in modern physics as Quarks
Finnegans Wake (1939)
“Mark: When did you learn to drive?
Courtney: About three seconds ago.”
“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”
The Origin of Humankind (1994)
“Wealth is no mark of God's favour. Poverty is no mark of God's displeasure.”
Vol. II, Luke XVI: 19–31, p. 212
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Luke (1858–1859)
“Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: The Mark Inside.”
From the chapter entitled "Rube", p. 11
Naked Lunch (1959)
The Social History of Art, Volume I. From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages, 1999, Chapter IV. The Middle Ages