Top 100 Make'em Quotes
#1. Lots of folks know stuff we don't, but that doesn't make 'em smart.
Krista Van Dolzer
#2. You got to get outta here, Josie. New Orleans is fine for some people, real good for a few. But not for you. Too much baggage that'll pull you down. You got dreams and the potential to make 'em real.
Ruta Sepetys
#3. I think big, get cash, make em blink fast
Nicki Minaj
#4. I peer at them, noticing that they all say things like "A STEAL AT $ 3,999!" or "THEY DON'T MAKE 'EM ANYMORE" or "PURRS LIKE A TIGER CUB.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#6. Oughta be a law everybody has to take a trip every two years just to make 'em realize how good home is.
Mary Lasswell
#7. You probably thinking they you've seen someone like me before. But I'm a G and they don't make em like me anymore.
Wiz Khalifa
#8. You've got to be like a fan at your show, just wild out. I make eye contact. I get in the crowd and kick it with 'em, stage dive, mosh. I make 'em laugh. I go out there and turn up, have fun. There's no set list; I don't have rehearsals.
Schoolboy Q
#9. Oh, they have just a bully time - take ships and burn them, and get the money and bury it in awful places in their island where there's ghosts and things to watch it, and kill everybody in the ships - make 'em walk a plank.
Mark Twain
#10. When I play a song for someone the first time, if I make 'em laugh, I think, 'Yes, I've succeeded.'
Tove Lo
#11. Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
#12. You can force people to change - which they'll hate. Or you can inspire them to change - which'll make 'em love you forever.
Richard Doster
#13. My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh.
Carrot Top
#14. I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding. But it's a good reason to put the price up, and it means a load of people will have haddock. They should tell people they're running out of all sorts. Make 'em panic a bit.
Karl Pilkington
#15. Americans don't like any form of art, man. All they like to do is make money. They don't like me, Sammy Davis, or anybody else. They don't like nothing. They just like Sammy because he can make 'em a lot of money.
Miles Davis
#16. I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.
Jim Carrey
#17. They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the
safe side, he should be castrated anyway.
Hunter S. Thompson
#18. Being a comedian is like being a con man. You have to make 'em like you before you can fool 'em.
Flip Wilson
#19. Sometimes the best way to make 'em laugh is to show 'em how you honestly feel.
Jon Lovitz
#20. Why are they burying daddy? Mummy? Mummy! Make 'em stop! Daddy can't go to work like this!
Hiromu Arakawa
#21. I always had the desire to entertain people, whether it was to make 'em laugh or to scare 'em or stir things up just to cause problems.
Marilyn Manson
#23. I am not much about rules, I like to break 'em and don't like to make 'em.
Carson Kressley
#24. We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.
D.H. Lawrence
#25. That's the problem with mistakes. You can make'em in an instant. Years upon years spent tiptoeing about like a fool, then you take your eye away for a moment and ... Bang.
Joe Abercrombie
#26. I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up.
Red Skelton
#27. Cat can have kittens in the oven, girl, but that won't ever make em muffins.
Stephen King
#28. All your beliefs, they're just that. They're nothing. They're how you were taught and raised. That doesn't make 'em real.
Bill Hicks
#29. Be a father, if not, why bother, son?
A boy can make 'em, but a man can raise one.
If you did it, admit it and stick with it.
Ed O.G.
#30. Great teaching - just plain old knock 'em dead, get it right, make 'em laugh, make 'em wonder instruction - is always going to be rare. Good teachers abound. Great ones are special.
Robert Krulwich
#31. You make 'em, I amuse 'em. [children]
Dr. Seuss
#32. There ain't no rules here, we're trying to accomplish something ... All this talk about rules ... When the deal goes down ... we make 'em up as we go along.
Alcee Hastings
#34. I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin 'em and I just beat 'em every time I can. I want to make 'em sharp.
John D. Rockefeller
#35. We only have one agenda, which is to make 'em laugh their pants off. Unless they are girls, of course, when it is to make them laugh their bras off so we can get a quick look.
Adrian Edmondson
#36. Sometimes I have to criticize guys to try to make it fun, I mean, I'm out there trying to bust other people. I want all these guys to do well, but when they do something stupid or don't play well, I try not to kill 'em, I try to make 'em laugh a little bit.
Charles Barkley
#37. I will be king. Your country needs me. I'm gonna bring out the best in Wakanda. And what is best in Wakanda is that fantastic pile of vibranium. I'm gonna make 'em love me, baby.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#38. I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!
Howard Hawks
#40. I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business.
John Oates
#41. Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff ... Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds.
Robert Penn Warren
#42. You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.
Don Shula
#44. Why don't women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama's recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they don't make 'em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please?
Brandon T. Jackson
#45. A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
Yogi Berra
#46. I cheat my boys every chance I get, I want to make 'em sharp.
William Avery
#47. I'm just flowing through, when I see things, I talk about 'em. And it's cool. I don't want any title. I just say what I say, and hopefully somebody gets it. I'm not perfect, and I'm just here and trying to make a dollar, and being real at the same time
Nas
#48. Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth.
Moses Malone
#49. You're a goddam funny kid, Clivey," he said. "I got sixteen grandchildren, and there's only two of em that I think is gonna amount to duckshit, and you ain't one of em - although you're on the runner-up list - but you're the only one that can make me laugh until my balls ache.
Stephen King
#50. Although life is filled with twists and turns, only you have the ability to make positive changes to your life. You can do it. One day at a time! ~ Taken from "Words of Wisdom for Warriors" by EM.EM.Genesis
E.M. E.M. Genesis
#51. If I'm not writing about myself, then I sit down with people I really dig writing with and throw 'em out and see if something sticks. Their brain plus mine hopefully will make something interesting and cool and it will just snowball and we'll have a unique song by the end of it.
Kacey Musgraves
#52. Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the upper hand. Nothing can do better than a good sound beating. (Walker 2000: 34)
Alice Walker
#53. One of the questions that I hear over and over and over is, 'What do we do with all these paintings we do on television?' Most of these paintings are donated to PBS stations across the country. They auction them off, and they make a happy buck with 'em.
Bob Ross
#54. I'll never use force to try to make my enemies think the way I think, George - partly because I don't believe in it, and partly because it's useless. You can't destroy ideas by force, and you can't hide 'em by silence.
Kenneth Roberts
#55. Don't let people interfere with you. Boot 'em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.
Ray Bradbury
#56. Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
William Wycherley
#57. Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em?
Thomas Hardy
#58. I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'
But I don't care! I'm still here!
Langston Hughes
#59. We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.
Will Rogers
#60. I remember hearing that the spirit was always next to you, so I would always make room in my bed for the spirit ... I'd make room for the teddy bears, Jesus and me. And then I'd wake up in the morning, and I'd squashed 'em all.
Michael Fassbender
#61. When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.
Harper Lee
#62. Make the best o' things the way you find 'em..
Mark Twain
#63. I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.
Bear Bryant
#64. I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.
Russell Crowe
#65. The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.
Louis L'Amour
#66. Fuck yeah," he answered. "The mistakes we make in life don't define us, Amy. The way we handle 'em after makin' 'em do.
Kristen Ashley
#67. My eyebrows make a more profound impact on other people than they do on me. I just let 'em grow.
Peter Gallagher
#68. I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is - they like to run their own business. I know men that would -make my wife a better husband than I am but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em
Will Rogers
#69. Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!
Ina Garten
#70. I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.
Adrian Grenier
#71. How people will talk about one's doings!" Fancy exclaimed.
"Well, if you make songs about yourself, my dear, you can't blame other people for singing 'em.
Thomas Hardy
#72. A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#73. Shit. I want you, Chess. Make no mistake on that one, dig? Want you bad. So bad I ain't even can think of any else sometimes, 'cept gettin you under me. Ain't give a fuck what pills you swallow get you through the day or what happens you ain't got em, aye? Still want you.
Stacia Kane
#74. Hit don't make no difference what a man perfesses. I been in a heap o' churches. There's the Nazarene Church and the Pentecost and the Holy Rollers and the Baptists and I don't know what-all. I cain't see much difference to nary one of 'em. There's a good to all of 'em and there's a bad.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#75. Most of what bein human's about is making choices and payin the bills when they come due. Some of the choices are pretty goddam nasty, but that don't give a person leave to just walk away from em ... In a case like that, you just have to make the best choice you can n then pay the price.
Stephen King
#76. My rule is never save bits. They get the way, and you don't think of anything new. Put 'em in. Make a big mess.
Gene Wolfe
#77. I think Pringles initial intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a big truckload of potatoes arrived. But Pringles is a laid back company. They said, "Screw it. Cut 'em up!"
Mitch Hedberg
#78. You think just because we got stars up here we can wish on 'em and make everything better
Neal Shusterman
#79. Sometimes a song that didn't make one record will stay in my head for so long and just won't go away. I take that as a hint to keep 'em close and not forget about them.
Shelby Lynne
#80. Put your hands where I can see 'em, so they look like 12 PM
On the dot, see this Glock? Don't make me give these shells freedom.
Elzhi
#81. If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools ...
Rudyard Kipling
#82. I've always said about 50% of what happens at a concert has to do with the audience. If you play for a dead audience you're gonna stink. If we play for a great crowd we're much better. You want 'em to make noise. It's kinda like sex, if they don't make noise, you ain't doin' it right.
Billy Joel
#83. I'm not the sort of bloke who spends a long time in the bathroom. I've never used a face cream in my life and I don't like it when I go on TV and they offer me make-up. I tell 'em, 'No thanks.'
Ray Winstone
#84. I gotta make a move, I gotta do this now,
If they don't know your dreams, they can't shoot 'em down.
J. Cole
#85. I make a living off (politicians), so I can't knock 'em. Every time we elect some fellow we think he's terrible and then when we get another one in he's worse. So, I am always in favor of keeping the one we've got and let the other go.
Will Rogers
#86. Now, go knock 'em dead."
I assume he means that I should make a good impression at the party, and not to follow the literal interpretation of that expression.
Bree Despain
#87. Bagger Vance: Don't make no sense is all ... Man say he don't play no golf when he out here this shade of night hittin balls off in the dark where he can't even see 'em ...
Rannulph Junuh: Yep ... Well, I've done things that have made less sense ...
Bagger Vance: As we all have ...
Steven Pressfield
#88. Small boys often produce their own plays; but usually the parts are not written out. They hardly need to be, for the main line of each character is always "Stick 'em up!" In these plays the curtain is always rung down on a set of corpses, for small boys are by nature through and uncompromising.
A.S. Neill
#89. Look em in the eye. Make a gesture of inclusion, which he did all the time. And above all, have a chorus. So I learned from Pete Seeger to have something for them to sing.
Tom Paxton
#90. And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.
John Sexton
#91. I make music to make you sick of fake music hate music like devil worshippin Satan music. So say your prayers your Hail Mary's and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.
Eminem
#92. If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is.
George Eliot
#93. Stories ain't about the feller what wrote 'em, even if he pertends they are. They don' even hev t'be true to be right! Stories are 'bout what they make you feel. If'n they make you feel good, an' make y'all wanta be brave, an' good, an' do what's right, thet's the important thing!
Mercedes Lackey
#94. A lot of people love their hate. They live to hate the people wronged them. You cain't just have one gang. That don't even make sense. If you took away the white man's black man or the black man's white man, most of 'em wouldn't even know how to walk down the street right.
Walter Mosley
#95. I have notes in my bathroom, yellow notes, and I stick 'em on the mirror, things that happened that were uplifting boosters for me. Notes that say, "Today is special, make today count." And then I have one note on the mirror in the middle that says, "Look at the other notes.
Burt Bacharach
#96. We all make mistakes, Gared. But those that can see 'em are halfway to being better men.
Peter V. Brett
#97. The first few films I made didn't look good at all, and I wasn't trying to make them look good. People dig 'em because they like the content.
Kevin Smith
#98. Uh, hello? I prefer recently reformed promiscuous reprobate. I'm just sayin', if we're gonna name call, let's just make sure we get 'em straight
Jenn Cooksey
#99. Naw. Just us old country niggers. We kind of make it a point to call things for what they is. I'd hate to guess how many names they is for the jailhouse. I'd hate to have to count em.
Cormac McCarthy
#100. What are letters?"
"Kinda like mediaglyphics except they're all black, and they're tiny, they don't move, they're old and boring and really hard to read. But you can use 'em to make short words for long words.
Neal Stephenson
