Top 100 Making Of Quotes
#1. Workingmen are at the foundation of society. Show me that product of human endeavor in the making of which the workingman has had no share, and I will show you something that society can well dispense with.
Samuel Gompers
#2. There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.
Daniel Berrigan
#3. One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds.
Jimenez Lai
#4. In order to eat a pomegranate you need this many things: a pomegranate, a knife, a cutting board, a bowl and a towel.
Also, two hands. These help with the making of the pomegranate.
Tahereh Mafi
#5. Wouldn't it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, 'Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and at the cast party, all animals got a belly belly belly rub.'
Elayne Boosler
#6. For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.
Valerie Miner
#7. DNA is the master blueprint for life and constitutes the genetic material in all free-living organisms and most viruses. RNA is the genetic material of certain viruses, but it is also found in all living cells, where it plays an important role in certain processes such as the making of proteins.
Richard J. Roberts
#8. I believe that the making of art is primarily for the benefit of the artist. If what the artist has created communicates messages and feelings to others, then it is because of the universality of the human experience that is speaking through the work of art.
David Walker
#9. The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.
Thomas Jefferson
#10. There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true.
Madeleine L'Engle
#11. The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
James Baldwin
#12. There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.
Michael Ondaatje
#13. A voice saying that other word an alive thing must learn, that other word as necessary to living as taking in fuel and making of it movement, music, leaves, roots, dimetrodon spikes, dancing, libraries, children:
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Catherynne M Valente
#14. It seems the deeper, truer personality of the artist only emerges in the making of decisions ... in refusing and accepting, changing and revising.
Bridget Riley
#15. The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.
Antony Gormley
#16. For poetry is, I believe, always an act of the spirit. The poem teaches us something while we make it. The poem makes you as you make the poem, and your making of the poem requires all your capacities of thought, feeling, analysis, and synthesis.
May Sarton
#17. When the first man created Himself, He was the light of the circle. Then He willed the sun into being It was 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man.
Elijah Muhammad
#18. Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.
Jacqueline Bisset
#19. Love coaxes and even hood-winks us into the making of a decision so radical that if left to our own devices we would never have entertained it for a moment.
Mike Mason
#20. A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it.
Andrew O'Hagan
#21. Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
Fay Weldon
#22. In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.
Benjamin Disraeli
#23. The self-confidence of even the consistently successful is never absolute. They are never sure that they know all the ingredients which go into the making of their success. The
Eric Hoffer
#24. That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
Sarah Caldwell
#25. Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
Lewis H. Lapham
#26. There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my life atrophies, unfortunately.
Jim Shaw
#27. This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.
John Aubrey
#28. One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity.
Alfred Jarry
#29. She was forever tilted sideways by the notion that pain was inevitable, chance was cruel, and all human ingenuity should go towards the making of a good cup of tea.
Colum McCann
#30. There are lots of different parts of movie-making that I participate in, but my favorite part is the making of it. I'm scared, every day. I keep thinking someone's going to throw me the ball and I'm going to go, "Oh, wow. Oh, god. I just messed that up."
Bruce Willis
#31. I THE IDEA OF TRUST The Improbable Power of Culture in the Making of Economic Society
Francis Fukuyama
#32. For me, the making of exhibitions has always had to do with dialogue: a concentrated, in-depth, focused dialogue with artists, who keep teaching me that exhibitions should always invent new rules for the game.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#33. Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making of water into wine, wine to blood, - when they want to impress us with their "science"?
Karlheinz Deschner
#34. We have all taken risks in the making of war. Isn't it time that we should take risks to secure peace?
Ramsay MacDonald
#35. Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming.
E. O. Wilson
#36. Of the love-making of Carol and Will Kennicott there is nothing to be told which may not be heard on every summer evening, on every shadowy block.
Sinclair Lewis
#37. The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.
Joseph McCabe
#38. Education fails unless the Three R's at one end of the school spectrum lead ultimately to the Four P's at the other-Preparati on for Earning, Preparation for Living, Preparation for Understanding, Preparation for Participation in the problems involved in the making of a better world.
Norman Cousins
#39. Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of contact with the Father, with joy and peace, fear and love full to the fingertips in their turn, without incessant drawing of lessons and making of rules?
Elisabeth Elliot
#40. The night before I began my career as a presidential campaign reporter, in September 2007, I finished Theodore White's 'The Making of the President,' the classic account of the 1960 race, which opened up a new era of campaign reporting.
Michael Hastings
#41. Indignation leads to the making of poetry.
[Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]
Juvenal
#42. I'm not mad about movies, there are too many people involved in the making of them, and they lack a definitive creative focus.
David Bailey
#43. There comes a point, in any kind of, whether it's in your family discussions or business or whatever, where you finally have to get over the making of the points and now let's see if we can find common ground.
Jon Kyl
#44. The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self-promotion.
Raymond Chandler
#46. When you think about 'The Grapes of Wrath,' it's an American masterpiece, and a very long process goes into the making of such a book.
Jay Parini
#47. The relevant part of the First Amendment here prohibits the making of any law, quote, "abridging the freedom of speech." And it's pretty well-established that speech comes in many forms.
Laura Sydell
#48. It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as to aim at making of it one large team, as positivist socialism seeks to do.
Bertrand De Jouvenel
#49. There is no music in a "rest" that I know of, but there's the making of music in it. And people are always missing that part of the life melody.
John Ruskin
#50. All creative effort - including the making of an omelet - is preceded by destruction.
Yi-Fu Tuan
#51. All the difficulties surrounding the making of 'Mars et Avril' actually fueled its creativity and contributed to its international success!
Martin Villeneuve
#52. The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living ... and the man who misses this truth misses the greatest joy and satisfaction that can come into his life
service for others.
Edward Bok
#53. Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.
Will Self
#54. The making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer ...
John Geddes
#55. Know'st thou not there is but one theme for ever-enduring bards? And that is the theme of War, the fortune of battles, The making of perfect soldiers.
Walt Whitman
#56. Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?
Socrates
#57. I get very excited when I go to a show - there are all these people who don't know each another who've come together to celebrate this amazing ritual. The making of community that theater provides is quite profound.
Hugh Hardy
#58. A man should be encouraged to do what the Maker of him has intended by the making of him, according as the gifts have been bestowed on him for that purpose.
Thomas Carlyle
#59. It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.
Barbara Katz Rothman
#60. I can never watch anything I've been involved in, because I know it, and I know what the making of it was like, and I know what's been cut out and changed. I just know it.
Charlie Kaufman
#61. Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for making something speak from your own seared experience.
Molly Peacock
#62. To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.
Laura Riding
#63. Let us not mock God with metaphor,
Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence;
Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the
Faded credulity of earlier ages:
Let us walk through the door.
John Updike
#64. This edition of The Making of a Quagmire differs in a number of ways from the original one. Approximately one-third of the text has been cut in an effort to eliminate material that seemed clearly redundant or that did not relate directly to the Vietnam war.
David Halberstam
#65. Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#66. A sunset is not just the end of a day, it's the making of the way for a new day and new possibilities. (From my book Full And Overflowing)
Marie Moreton
#67. And like most other overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making. Of
Sam Walton
#68. I might not yet be falling in love, but I might be flirting with the promise of love, the idea of love, the making of a place in my heart for love, though it may have been more a wish than a promise.
Diane Meier
#69. The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise.
Richard A. Epstein
#70. The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.
George Herbert
#71. Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
Louis Khan
#72. "The making of peace is a continuing process that must go on from day to day, from year to year, so long as our civilization shall last."
J. William Fulbright
#73. People are always expecting to get peace in heaven: but you know whatever peace they get there will be ready-made. Whatever making of peace they can be blest for, must be on the earth here.
John Ruskin
#74. No historians or librar ians were harmed in the making of this book, but some were badgered extensively with questions.
Libba Bray
#75. It is curious how any making of order makes one feel mentally ordered, ordered inside.
May Sarton
#76. I show elements of the set in my pictures because it's not real. When I see movies, I often love the 'making of' more than the movie itself. It's not so final. When you have a woman just standing there, it doesn't mean much.
Peter Lindbergh
#77. Maybe not," mused Maggie. "If we eat pies, then we should never, not for one moment, look down on the making of them." "I don't," said William.
Alexander McCall Smith
#78. Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
T. S. Eliot
#79. But to use the knowledge of the threading, you must learn the making of the shades. When to sadden with the iron pot. How to bloom the colors. How to bleed.
Lois Lowry
#80. Our success has not been a continual series of victories. We have had a number of devastating setbacks; how these are handled is the making of a great team ... winning does not happen in straight lines.
Clive Woodward
#81. All of the sadness and drama you have lived in your life was rooted in the making of assumptions and taking things personally. The whole world of control between humans is based on that.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#82. Since I was a kid, I've liked to see how things are done. Sometimes when you see how things are done, it's like watching a 'making of' within the story. You see the physical aspect, the construction of things.
Michel Gondry
#83. It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.
Edith Wharton
#84. By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.
Abe Ajay
#85. The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
Abraham Lincoln
#86. Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed.
Thomas De Witt Talmage
#87. During those rare moments of creativeness, when a person has something in common with the making of the universe, he feels a sense of transcendence. What could be a greater reward?
Joseph C Zinker
#88. The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.
Karl Kraus
#89. No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman
#90. One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else. It is well.
Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
#91. A coat is not worth eight times as much as a hat to the community because it takes eight times as long to make it ... The community is willing to devote eight times as long to the making of a coat because it will be worth eight times as much to it
Mark Skousen
#92. It's important for me to not historicize. I work to diffuse the issue of identity and to intensify identification. You have to lose your authority in the making of a film to achieve this. The film is about me being absolutely dislocated. I focus on the very personal to arrive at the very political.
Elia Suleiman
#93. To nourish the soul means to become kinder, more compassionate, wiser, and more loving, often through the making of difficult choices that foster growth rather than safety. The nourishment and growth of the soul is the very reason for human life ...
Joan Z. Borysenko
#94. Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#95. The breaking of us has actually been the making of us . . . the God-strengthened us He could use.
Lysa TerKeurst
#96. To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky
R.S. Thomas
#97. I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake.
John D. Rockefeller
#98. Unlike art, the making of home does not stay done. Every morning, every evening, the mess awaits us. The messy, hungry, beautiful world, wanting and needing our touch.
Rebecca McClanahan
#99. The starkest reality of war is that the enemy is never really a monster, never inhuman ... Every soldier is the same fallible breed of human that we are. The making of war, even the most necessary and 'just' war, hardens human hearts.
Stan Goff
#100. PAPA: This damn country has done us in. That's why I'm like this. We should be there. Home.
NASSER: But that country has been sodomized by religion. It is beginning to interfere with the making of money. Compared with everywhere, it is a little heaven here.
Hanif Kureishi
