Making Something Quotes

#1. I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and women trample themselves and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amidst the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

Charles A. Beard

#2. Love required sacrifice and making hard choices and doing things that were bigger than just you. It wasn't something you asked for, or could control or change. It was something you accepted. Love was a force of nature.

Kimberly Derting

#3. Why don't we have more babies, Mom? Bailey has big sisters. I wish I had a big sister.
I don't know why, Fern. I tried to have more children, but sometimes we are given something so special, so wonderful, that one is enough.

Amy Harmon

#4. Happiness is like coke - something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Aldous Huxley

#5. Her voice was gentle, patient - why was it making him want to set fire to something?

Leigh Bardugo

#6. Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

Neil Gaiman

#8. I had long planned to start a foundation. I wanted to do something with long-range benefit to humanity. Starting a business and making a lot of money doesn't make for a fulfilling life.

Fred Kavli

#9. Real content marketing isn't repurposed advertising, it is making something worth talking about.

Seth Godin

#10. Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best.

Cass McCombs

#11. But it's not just "Do you want a hit?" More importantly, it has to be something we - the artist and I - like. If you go in just wanting a hit song, it's not going to happen that way. You have to first be committed to making music you like.

Lukasz Gottwald

#12. This is why, in a nutshell, advice is overrated. I can tell you something, and it's got a limited chance of making its way into your brain's hippocampus, the region that encodes memory. If I can ask you a question and you generate the answer yourself, the odds increase substantially.

Michael Bungay Stanier

#13. When you're younger and you see something that really speaks to you, it's indelible in a way that's not the same as when you're an adult. So I'll always love reading books and making movies that resonate with young people.

Nina Jacobson

#14. Something that chemistry supplies are very good for." When he gave me an odd look, I unwrapped a Bunsen burner and twirled it in the light. "Making bombs.

Lia Habel

#15. You must be a fucking masochist to want anything to do with me."
Her hand slipped beneath my shirt, making my stomach muscles clench on contact, and her eyes locked with mine. "Or maybe I see something deeper than the darkness you wear on the surface.

Keri Lake

#16. The craft of questions, the craft of stories, the craft of the hands - all these are the making of something, and that something is soul. Anytime we feed soul, it guarantees increase.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#17. The second most powerful man in the country." All his life Lyndon Johnson had been taking "nothing jobs" and making them into something - something big. And now, no sooner

Robert A. Caro

#18. to compete. And then there is the hype. Vendors, analysts and the media talk up new technologies and trends making them sound like the 'next big thing', something that every company must adopt if it wants to stay

Ian Cox

#19. Creativity. Taking something enormously strange and somehow making it strangely familiar.

Jim Lewis

#20. When we're surrounded by things that look impossible, making a simple choice to do something that's possible is a powerful thing to do.

Melody Beattie

#21. Posting something that is encouraging and well done compared to something that is trashy and common is the difference between eating a fine meal or the scraps from making that meal.

John Patrick Hickey

#22. Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

Jerry Cantrell

#23. Hat-making is laborious and time-consuming. It's a very tactile medium, and you can develop the skills, but it's one of those things: you either have it, or you don't. I love bringing something to fruition with my hands that gives people pleasure.

Philip Treacy

#24. I'm on an Isabel Marant kick. She does an amazing job of making things that are everyday-wearable but also special and a little bit different. I definitely like that she has a '70s western vibe. There's something that's very fun and vintage in what she's doing.

Jennifer Morrison

#25. I had been doing something for more than half of my life that I wanted to continue doing - I really loved making the film and I really love acting and it is what I want to do.

Emma Watson

#26. Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.

Lawrence Halprin

#27. Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.

John D. Rockefeller

#28. It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others.

Joanne Harris

#29. I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.

Graham King

#30. I wanted to see how funny I could be without making the choice that every 10 minutes something big and visual had to happen.

Judd Apatow

#31. There's no point in making films unless you intend to show us something special, otherwise just go out and watch a play.

Bryan Singer

#32. If you're making a cake, you don't just make the cake and have it look nice and have nobody tastes it. But that doesn't take away from your ability to execute what you do as well as you can and to have it be something for many.

Mel Gibson

#33. I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.

Van Morrison

#34. One way of surviving heartache is to stay busy. Making something right in at least one tiny corner of the vast house of wrongs...

Barbara Kingsolver

#35. There's something up ahead,' I said. 'Something really bad.' 'So of course we're heading straight for it,' said Penny. 'At some point, we're going to have to sit down and have a serious talk about making better lifestyle decisions.

Simon R. Green

#36. The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.

Margot Fonteyn

#37. I'm no longer interested in making political films. There's something old-fashioned about them. Young people now don't care for politics. It isn't present in life as it used to be. And increasingly I like films which reflect present-day reality.

Bernardo Bertolucci

#38. You'd better touch me before something happens spontaneously that makes me look embarrassingly desperate."
"Really?" He lowered just close enough for his chest to graze the fabric covering her bra, squeezing a squeak from her throat. "I'd like to watch that. You're making abstinence sound fun.

Brynn Kelly

#39. I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was - you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'

Zack Snyder

#40. If there was a time when 'The Ecologist' appeared not to be making a difference at all, not doing something useful, I wouldn't do 'The Ecologist,' but I think it is useful.

Zac Goldsmith

#41. When people hit on feeling a certain melancholy or elation, it's a really exciting moment. I think making that connection is the goal, and what makes something great.

Craig Finn

#42. The Father does not welcome you because you have been trying hard, because you have made a thoroughgoing confession or because you have been making spiritual strides recently. He does not welcome you because you have something you can be proud about. He welcomes you because his Son died for you.

John White

#43. The thing about cooking is it's so interesting to watch. I don't know why, but if you go to somebody's house and they're making something, they usually say interesting things while they're cooking.

Christopher Walken

#44. And there is something in the young that rebels when life is made too strict, making us want to do most of all the very things denied to us.

V.C. Andrews

#45. I'd rather be useful than rich. It's more essential to feel you're doing something that's worth doing, rather than making a lot of money.

Juliet Stevenson

#46. When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Andy Granatelli

#47. I love the idea of making movies that kids and adults can go to together and both get something out of it, and not just, 'Oh, I've got to take my kid to the movie because they want to see the next, you know, 'Hannah Montana' movie or whatever.'

Rob Reiner

#48. God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.

Charles R. Swindoll

#49. I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.

Taryn Manning

#50. There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

Jim Gaffigan

#51. I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.

Paul Dudley White

#52. Every moment, every day, we are all making something -- whether it's science or art, a relationship to a destiny -- building it choice by choice, moment by moment.

Claudia Gray

#53. Memories have big value,... look back look what you have lost (For a moment)..., look what you have been making with this something or somebody... (For a moment) and look now without it... That's value, this is what robots don't have but humanity have!

Deyth Banger

#54. I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

Ewan McGregor

#55. I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

Dan Hicks

#56. The way that I rationalize making photographs is because you're countering what's offensively mass-produced with something that you just want more people to see.

Mary Mattingly

#57. I'm leaning towards making something for kids nine and under
because I have kids now. I can clean it up and make it rated G.

Snoop Dogg

#58. So are you going to marry me or what?
He smiled that smile that had been making me feel something like drunk these past few months, and I felt all my sensibility and reason start to beat their wings as they prepared to fly away. Again.

Dorothy Koomson

#59. F you're making the scene as a director, you're looking for alternatives, once you've got to that place that's very much in Rowan's [Atkins] head, to see if you can take it further, in some places. Sometimes you do absolutely know there's something there. You just feel it in your bones.

Oliver Parker

#60. Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

Yann Martel

#61. I care about the records I make and I love writing songs and some songs are really dear to me and they mean something. But the memory of making the records and the activities surrounding the records, the people involved in them is actually a bigger thing to me.

Joel Plaskett

#62. As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

Gelsey Kirkland

#63. I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes ... you're Doing Something.

Neil Gaiman

#64. I didn't think God was capable of making someone go through something so ugly

Colleen Hoover

#65. Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.

Nancy Reagan

#66. Sometimes it's harder than you think. There's always this fear that even though I may know what I want, I may never actually make it a reality. Sometimes it's more complicated than just wanting something and making it happen.

Kandi Steiner

#67. So, the result though is by the time I've got something, it's been worked over so many times that although I do make changes as the end, often by the time I've gotten it, it's pretty much completed.

Edward Hirsch

#68. I've been exploring what works for me, and what I enjoy. It's about diet for me as well as training. So finding something you enjoy, making sure it works for you and sticking at it would be my advice.

Nick Youngquest

#69. I'm the type of person who always has to be making something.

Brian Hodge

#70. Making art has never been a mystery to me. It's never been something that's very difficult.

Richard Prince

#71. Crafting, or 'making things,' has always been a delightful pastime of mine because it requires putting common elements together in order to achieve a lovely something that nobody needs.

Amy Sedaris

#72. Making excuses and not trying because I was scared were my go-to reactions. Nothing was going to change in my life unless I did something about it.

Erin Willett

#73. When I use weed creatively, I'm much better at drawing or making something or playing music. But what I do for a living is mostly performing as an actor or writing, and for those things I need to have my faculties sharp.

Nick Offerman

#74. There's a difference between making fun of something and having fun with something.

Kristin Chenoweth

#75. Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#76. I'm really sensitive. And they don't understand that, because my most comfortable feeling is anger. So I'll get angry if you said something to hurt my feelings or you're making me uncomfortable, I'll get angry, and be ready to do something about it.

Curtis Jackson

#77. Something but not nothing because nothing is an infinite possibility.

Kyle Kipple

#78. A big complicated mess is easy. Making something simple and clear is hard.

D.F. Lamont

#79. Making each day a mini lifetime - to achieve something and to enjoy something.

Joan Collins

#80. They're making me out to be a serial marrying person or something. I'm laughing at that.

Jennifer Lopez

#81. My background is sociology. Combined with my graphic approach, if I could do some film projects, I think I'd be very good at making documentaries eventually, but people don't think of me for that, of course. But dialogue is something I know I can be good at.

David Carson

#82. The movie was always something that was always kind of like a dream. From the start of making my YouTube videos, I've always been sharing my thoughts or opinions or just updating people on my life, but the movie is more of a behind-the-scenes look at what actually goes into my life.

Tyler Oakley

#83. No matter what happens," she said quietly, "I want to thank you."
Chaol tilted his head to the side. "For what?"
Her eyes stung but she blamed it on the fierce wind and blinked away the dampness. "For making my freedom mean something.

Sarah J. Maas

#84. To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true.

Eugene Cernan

#85. I like doing something romantic with a girl on Valentine's Day, like making her dinner and keeping it simple. The more quality time, the better.

Spencer Boldman

#86. Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.

Christoph Niemann

#87. People outside the documentary world don't realize how time-consuming making a documentary film is there is a lot of responsibility, and in order to make something good you need time.

Alex Hammond

#88. Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

Peter Wright

#89. My thing is, I like to do things as long as they're relatively fluid or easy. Not to say that there isn't any effort involved in making something happen, but I don't like to push things or force things too much.

Reggie Watts

#90. ...the state of perfection is an elusive goal; demanding something so obscure as almost unattainable and can become a compulsive, crazy making squirrel-on-a-wheel way of living.

David W. Earle

#91. I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.

Elia Kazan

#92. Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.

Steven Soderbergh

#93. I was running around with two guns on my waist like I was Larry Fishburne or something. I wasn't making no money, I was just running around with two guns like Larry Fishburne.

Sean Price

#94. We won't be different for different's sake. Different is easy ... make it pink and fluffy! Better is harder. Making something different often has a marketing and corporate agenda.

Jonathan Ive

#95. Stop making things of less value your food for thought each moment of time! Your mind is precious. Mind your mind!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#96. You can't make a life without making mistakes. Relax and learn something

Rick Warren

#97. I love adventure, so I'm excited to be working on something new and making the transition from reality show contestant to host.

Rob Mariano

#98. Have I learned something from making records? Yeah, I've learned a lot, because I've not only made eleven of my own records, I've also probably produced that many records for other artists, and then I've probably played on, or been a large part of another eleven records with other people.

Jesse Harris

#99. When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor.

William H. Macy

#100. It was something I enjoyed doing and decided to give it a couple years, though I'm not making a lot of money now either!

Sam Cooke