Top 100 Made Up Sayings
#1. I don't pay no mind to rules. Seems to me, rules are things made up by scared people too afraid to die, so they can't live. Or too lazy to make their own decisions. Rules are for breakin', as far as I'm concerned.
Suzanne Palmieri
#2. It seems to me like a failure of language that experience fits into a regular sentence made up of ordinary words. It fits into one word. "Experience.
Ann Brashares
#4. Because the vast majority of the world is made up of half-wits, the President asked Mike to come onboard and dumb everything down for them.
Dan Brown
#5. The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other. Independence doesn't imply rationality or impartiality, though. You can be biased and irrational, but as long as you're independent, you won't make the group any dumber.
James Surowiecki
#6. All our names are just stupid nicknames they made up - like Alby for Albert Einstein, Newt for Isaac Newton, and me - Thomas. As in Edison.
Anonymous
#7. What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.
Jane Austen
#8. The truth is more magical - in the best and most exciting sense of the word - than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality.
Richard Dawkins
#9. The universe is made up of vibrating, pulsing light. When our attention level drops, we don't see that. Instead we see what appears to be a solid material world.
Frederick Lenz
#10. Our attitude is the environment we carry with us during the day. It proclaims to the world what we think of ourselves and indicates the sort of person we have made up our minds to be. It is the person we will become. How's your attitude today?
Bob Proctor
#11. Actually, I'm getting one made up with eight necks and I'm going to get a wheelwright to make a big rim around it and then I can do cartwheels off the stage.
Jimmy Page
#12. It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#13. I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.
Rob Lowe
#14. My gut says to go with you and it's yet to fail me." He smiled, brushing off my concerns so easily. Well that's because your gut is probably made up of rock hard abs; they wouldn't fail anyone.
R.S. Grey
#15. I take the outline from a real person as inspiration, but the in-line is totally made up. Which is why I usually invent imaginary names.
Dana Spiotta
#16. Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want to do as an author. I am not concerned with people knowing exactly what I made up and what is real.
Melanie Benjamin
#17. We live our lives, made up of a great quantity of / isolated instants / So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things.
John Ashbery
#18. To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.
David Lynch
#19. It was a lame excuse, and I knew that wasn't the reason he was canceling. If he wanted to avoid me, I would have preferred he made up something about how he and the other guardians had to up Moroi security or practice top-secret ninja moves.
Richelle Mead
#20. Embrace the power of little things and you will build a tower of mighty things. Mighty things are made up varieties of little things put together!
Israelmore Ayivor
#21. But I'd made up my mind early on in life that I never wanted to be a mother.
Marie Helvin
#22. Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.
Colleen Atwood
#23. When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.
Catherine Bell
#24. So much about life was disappointment. He often wondered how humankind endured so long, and if the few moments when things went right really made up for all the rest.
Brandon Sanderson
#25. 'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split personality. Sometimes I'm cool, calm, and collected, and other times I'm beyond crazy.
Ludacris
#26. If I told you that everything about you had been just made up by someone, that all of your thoughts, all of your memories, even the things you chose to say had been invented and that they weren't real, that you weren't real, would you believe me? I don't think so.
Tony Burgess
#27. I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.
St. Vincent
#29. That's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didn't do, sometimes live on.
Elspeth Huxley
#30. Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.
Ellen Glasgow
#31. They made up all those myths in the time before there was anything called science.
Jostein Gaarder
#32. I stick closely to the structure of the myths. I may have some fun with the mythology by changing the environment to modern-day, but the structure of the myths, the monsters, the relationships of the gods - none of that is made up.
Rick Riordan
#33. Rights are something made up by governments to make you feel like you're buying something with your taxes.
Stefan Molyneux
#34. Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people," I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.
Jandy Nelson
#35. I feel as if someone is going to come along, feel my collar and say: 'Do you really think you can get people to read books you've made up about people that don't exist?'
Deborah Moggach
#36. The thing I absolutely hate is when directors don't know what they want, and then they ask you to do it this way, and then maybe that way, and maybe that way, because they haven't made up their minds what they want. So you're running around in circles trying to give them what they want.
Diana Rigg
#37. I have to be out there to sell these fights; it's not because I really enjoy getting made up and going to work every day. It's cool, it's an awesome job, but it's still a job. I'm doing it because it helps me make a living and not because I'm so extremely vain that I want to see my face everywhere.
Ronda Rousey
#38. Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Jules Verne
#39. Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.
Roger Ebert
#40. I like people more undone than made up. Patricia Arquette is the ultimate. She's not anorexic or perfectly tan, she's not trying to be anything but what she is, and that's the most sexy thing.
Kirsten Dunst
#41. The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#42. The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
Bear Grylls
#43. Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant.
Samuel Johnson
#44. Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?
George Eliot
#45. It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed.
G.K. Chesterton
#46. In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots.
Neal Stephenson
#47. I think every day is made up of tiny little tests. Some are tests of character. Some are tests of fortitude. Others are tests of friendship. And if you're lucky, when it really matters, you'll pass with flying colors.
J. D
#48. I would do the baby voice and it's kind of like this character I made up. But in real life, I'm completely different. I'm very smart. I think a lot of people will assume I'm an airhead.
Paris Hilton
#49. Let us consider an alternative style of thinking, which we can call 'creative thinking.' It is playfully instructive to note that the word 'reactive' and the word 'creative' are made up of exactly the same letters. The only difference between the two is that you 'C' [see] differently.
John Quincy Adams
#50. Each one of us is made up of many different people. Who we want to be at any one time is up to us, no one else. We don't always have to play the same part.
Art Hochberg
#51. Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.
Bobby Charlton
#52. The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.
James Salter
#53. For external beauty, you put on things; for real beauty, you have to drop all things. For external beauty you have to have make-up; for real beauty you only have to realize that you are already made up.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#54. Our lives are made up of thousands of everyday choices. Over the years these little choices will be bundled together and show clearly what we value.
Boyd K. Packer
#55. The character of the crowds is made up of mimicry and hostility.
Franz Grillparzer
#56. The crankiest not-a-couple has made up. It's a beautiful day.
Annabeth Albert
#57. Look," he said, clearly having made up his mind, "I've made up my mind." Nailed it.
Darynda Jones
#58. The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people.
Jean De La Bruyere
#59. Long gone are the days when hospital stays and surgeries made up the bulk of seniors' annual medical expenses.
Jim Gerlach
#60. When God made up this world of ours, He made it long and wide, And meant that it should shelter all, And none should be denied.
Carrie Jacobs-Bond
#61. In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.
Frederick Lenz
#62. Beneath our transient physical bodies, we are made up of intelligent light. One's own body of light, the soul, is the most real part of oneself because it lives forever, it doesn't decay and die.
Frederick Lenz
#63. Did you know that ninety-eight percent of statistics are made up on the spot?
Kim Harrington
#64. I remember specifically, in the summer of 2002, the rate of women infected with HIV/AIDS was beginning to match the rate of men, and nobody was talking about it. It was as if it was on nobody else's radar. I had made up my mind to do something about it.
Sheryl Lee Ralph
#65. All that you ever need to know about genitals is that they are made up of flesh, blood, and millions of tiny, restless nerve endings - anything else that you read into them is mere hallucination, a product of your own overactive imagination.
Julia Serano
#66. But then I remembered that our hearts
didn't care about logic or time. My heart didn't play by rules that my mind made up. It didn't follow silly timelines or measure its feelings based on the number of days it had known someone. No, hearts simply felt, whether you wanted them to or not.
J. Sterling
#67. You perceive yourself as being solid and physical, limited to a body. You are made up of light, endless mind. The way you see life is a limited state of mind.
Frederick Lenz
#69. Women made up 44% of Olympic competitors at London 2012 - the greatest show of gender equality in Olympic history. By comparison, in the 1908 Games men outnumbered women 53 to 1.
Donna De Varona
#70. He called dreams a 'royal road' into the unconscious, made up of all forbidden wishes you had and you wished you didn't
Jodi Picoult
#71. This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
Barry Diller
#72. I made up adventures and divesed a life for myself so as to live, at least somehow, a little.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#74. The world that we live in is made up of two phases, the real world and the fantasy world
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#76. (Rom 8:22)We have forgotten that we ourselves are dust of the earth (cf. Gen 2:7); our very bodies are made up of her elements, we breathe her air and we receive life and refreshment from her waters.
Pope Francis
#77. As electricity is made up of positive and negative current - so is human life a system of attraction and repulsion. - Turn off the current if you want quiet. - Yes, but where is the switch?
Nanamoli Thera
#78. life is made up of many comings and goings and for everything that we take with us,we must leave something behind
Herman Raucher
#79. And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny
Lauryn Hill
#80. My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.
Kate DiCamillo
#81. Obviously no one wants to give members of Congress a lot of money, because they barely do anything, and many of them are terrible, but a Congress that is made up of rich-but-not-super-rich people is going to be more corruptible than a Congress of really rich people.
Alex Pareene
#82. Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.
Sarah McLachlan
#84. Because a person couldn't ever be good and evil at once.
Little girl, don't you know? The world is made up of shades of grey.
Rachel E. Carter
#85. I don't really know where the songs are coming from often. Many of the best things I made up were just off the top of my head.
Stephen Malkmus
#86. Your mind is made up of light. We call it the dharmakaya, the clear light of reality. The transcendental eternal light is everywhere. It's the light of god or whatever you want to call it.
Frederick Lenz
#87. The subtle physical body is made up of strands of luminous energy, and the energies are flowing through them constantly in the etheric plane. Above the subtle body is the causal body.
Frederick Lenz
#88. Once everyone else around you starts to become incredibly comfortable - if anything, quite happy with what you are doing - then I start to settling in and trusting all those choices that I've made up to that point.
Josh Lucas
#89. I understand that he is made up of working cells, just like me
crowded and confused pieces of genius that have been tampered with and now, wounded, go along in the way that they are able.
Elizabeth Berg
#90. Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Dave Barry
#91. We got our revolution out of the way long before the French and the Americans. The monarchy was restored, but the sovereignty of our parliament, made up of and elected by a slowly widening constituency of the people, has never been seriously challenged since then.
Robert Webb
#93. Mental communication without verbalization ... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.
Tina Louise
#94. Some of our jokes we made up on the fly. I love Lecrae; we have been friends for a while and he is just one of my favorite people.
Bart Millard
#95. So much of life is made up of questions that we think matter today but are forgotten tomorrow.
Donna VanLiere
#96. Reality itself is [made up of] chance processes linked to sets of rules - this is what drives the world, the universe, and just about anything a human being can imagine.
DJ Spooky
#97. You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better.
Erin Morgenstern
#98. I have made up my mind that I will never marry. I shall be wedded to my art.
L.M. Montgomery
#99. Finally, I'd like to thank my readers for staying with me all these years. I especially want to thank the ones who understand that the world isn't made up of happy endings, but messy, complicated, and untidy ones.
Lisa Lutz
#100. Question was gone, tossed onto the pile of lost chances that made up Before.
Kristin Hannah
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