Making Up Quotes

#1. Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right.

Etgar Keret

#2. That's not the song it sang when it Sorted us," said Harry, clapping along with everyone else. "Sings a different one every year," said Ron. "It's got to be a pretty boring life, hasn't it, being a hat? I suppose it spends all year making up the next one.

J.K. Rowling

#3. Whether writing fiction or nonfiction, I've never had the sense I was 'making up' a character. It feels more like watching people reveal themselves, ever more deeply, more intimately.

Kathryn Harrison

#4. The only thing we'll be handing you is your head. (Fraser)
Ooo. Scary. Have you ever thought of making up children's tales? You might actually succeed in frightening a two-year-old. (Sin)

Kinley MacGregor

#5. The reckoning is how we walk into our story; the rumble is where we own it. The goal of the rumble is to get honest about the stories we're making up about our struggles, to revisit, challenge, and reality-check these narratives.

Brene Brown

#6. Horses are not for riding! They do not exist for riding! Horse riding is man's invention! It is the making up of human benefit!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.

Fannie Hurst

#8. Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind.

Ralph Barton Perry

#9. I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time.

Jim Davis

#10. In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music.

Phil Lesh

#11. As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

Maurice Gibb

#12. The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of small sins so that she could imagine herself full of remorse.

Morley Callaghan

#13. People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.

Joss Stone

#14. I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending.

Ruth Glick

#15. Fire may be the simplest and sometimes the only recourse in protecting yourself from the discomfort of cold, counteracting the effects of hypothermia, or in making up for inadequate clothing, bedding, or shelter.

Mors Kochanski

#16. No ramifications whatsoever. You're not going to ramificate; you don't know what it means. You don't know which of the words I use are real words and which I'm making up

Sophie Hannah

#17. Anyway, nobody bothers with real beginnings anymore. We stopped making up stories about the creation of the world ages ago.

Catherynne M Valente

#18. Dudes have been making up stuff about themselves probably since there have been dudes.

Christian Rudder

#19. Hunter pulled away, rolling her eyes.
"Hey, where are you going?" I murmured. "We're not done making up."
"We're in crisis mode out there," she answered, reluctantly taking another step back.
"It's always crisis mode in this house," I said with disgust."
"Chapter 24

Alyxandra Harvey

#20. But in all truth, it didn't matter, not even a little bit. It was just one more of the dozens of dopey contradictions making up the many-sided mess that was humanity, and all things considered, it was much less interesting than thinking about what Rita might have cooked for dinner.

Jeff Lindsay

#21. I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.

Amy Tan

#22. Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own ... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma.

Paul Vixie

#23. There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

#24. The Universe is cool enough without making up crap about it.

Phil Plait

#25. Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

Donald E. Westlake

#26. Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

Kary Mullis

#27. I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

Herb Ritts

#28. What a storyteller does is *see* more than most of us. We say he's making up his stories, but he - or better yet, *she* - watches more carefully, and then tells us what we would have seen ourselves if we'd just stopped to look.
-Leah said - to Nadine, although she was looking at Marjorie (pg 138)

Dean Hughes

#29. Funny thing, talking to ghosts," he said. "You can't tell if you're making up their answers or if they are really talking to you.

John Green

#30. God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism.

Tom Wolfe

#31. The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#32. I felt impelled to write. It felt demonic, and I wanted to improve, the way some people habitually pick up a guitar and get better at playing it and making up songs.

Sarah Hall

#33. With its population making up one fifth of the world's total, China offers a market with enormous potential.

Li Keqiang

#34. I feel at times that I'm making up these little people and I've lost my mind.

Carolyn Chute

#35. Addie was warm and radiant next to me, making up half of us. But I - I was Eva, Eva, Eva, all the way through.

Kat Zhang

#36. One of the fun things about play is making up stories ...

John Lasseter

#37. What did Saturday's used to taste like? Like eggs and fried ham and the bitter smell of hair in heavy rollers. Like long quiet hours and making up after a fight. Like ointment and bruising. Like waiting, especially, for something - anything - to happen.

Lauren Oliver

#38. People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

Robert Keith Leavitt

#39. He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back ... I went to his funeral in Belfast.

Frank McCourt

#40. The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they're trying to make it up together. It feels great, like you're having a great conversation with somebody.

Wynton Marsalis

#41. True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't say no - but I'm giving you a definite maybe.

Samuel Goldwyn

#42. It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.

Peter Carey

#43. I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

Nancy Marchand

#44. One of the advantages of no longer being young is that you're expected to start making up your mind about certain things.

Terry Teachout

#45. I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.

Patsy Cline

#46. I am just making up for being far too sensible when I was young.

Robert Black

#47. For now, let's just say that if your API is re-defining the HTTP verbs or if it is assigning new meanings to HTTP status codes or making up its own status codes, it is not RESTful.

George Reese

#48. My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.

Patti Smith

#49. I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here.

Rush Limbaugh

#50. There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason - and of our own desires.

Simone De Beauvoir

#51. That mama-bear, elegant-and-modest-on-the-outside, hot-as-allfuck-on-the-inside thing was ringing his doorbell. And God help him, he knew it was beyond inappropriate to be making up fuck fantasies about this woman right then but he couldn't help it.

Lauren Dane

#52. In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.

John Badham

#53. When I was small, my parents came back from Tijuana, and my dad bought me a very small acoustic guitar. I loved it. I started making up my own songs right away.

Diane Warren

#54. Most effectively, if we are made to feel accountable in our judgments, we will spend more time looking at angles and possibilities before making up our minds - and so will expend the correctional

Anonymous

#55. Back. So why am I so worried about making a first impression? I answer my own question: Because you only get to do it once. Every time after, you are only making up for what happened during that initial meeting.

Jodi Picoult

#56. What could be more interesting than thinking of mysterious happenings, finding the answers to intriguing questions, and making up new worlds?

Jeanne DuPrau

#57. I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and you're not really thinking about making a point one way or another about it. You're just coming up with a little scenario and seeing it through, and that's it.

Adam Schlesinger

#58. Quarrels are a natural part of relationships. Making up is always the best part.

Maureen Johnson

#59. As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon.

Aimee Bender

#60. The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.

Sarah Churchwell

#61. My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

Jane Horrocks

#62. I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?

David Brooks

#63. You're going to go on dreaming and imagining and making up stories about me as you walk along the street, and pretending that we're riding in a forest, or landing on an island - '
'No. I shall think of you ordering dinner, paying bills, doing the accounts, showing old ladies the relics -

Virginia Woolf

#64. You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.

Tina Fey

#65. I love to write what I see and what I do and what I experience, and I like to see if people can relate to that. I don't know if I am as good at making up a story in my head that has no truth to it, so that is a challenge for me.

Nikki Reed

#66. If you want to worry about something, you ought to worry about how Guadalupe was looking at you. Like she's still making up her mind about you. Guadalupe hasn't decided about you," the clairvoyant child had told him.

John Irving

#67. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.

William Gibson

#68. Brain tissue requires over 22 times as much energy as an equivalent amount of muscle tissue. In a modern human, the brain uses around 16 percent of the body's energy budget despite making up just 2 percent of the body's overall mass.

Christopher Seddon

#69. He was making up a story, and she was buying into his bullshit. That was a recipe for disaster

Miranda Liasson

#70. The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics.

Rob Sheffield

#71. I am essentially a middle-aged woman who likes making up weird snack combinations and galloping.

Miranda Hart

#72. My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that.

Robbie Robertson

#73. I love you, you know that? You're so selfless.
Don't paint me a saint, Gracie. I have alot of making up to do for the shit I've caused but I'm trying.

Annie Brewer

#74. He danced the way he made love, with passion and tenderness and spirit, communicating with hands and eyes the most subtle messages, tenderly making up for Lila's awkwardness. In his lashes and his hair, mist clung in tiny diamond drops. She could not take her eyes from him.

Ruth Wind

#75. I was the kind of kid who was always making up stories and adventures.

Alexandra Adornetto

#76. You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.

Edward VIII

#77. You have more potential in you than you can possibly use up in an entire lifetime or even in several lifetimes. Stop making up excuses and believing in limits.

David Cameron Gikandi

#78. The best part of breaking up ... is when you're making up.

Phil Spector

#79. Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of a listing of his income for taxes to contribute to his Government, not the scriptural tithe, but a small percentage of his net profits.

Cordell Hull

#80. In wakeful nights, as one may fancy, the wild soul of the man, tossing amid these vortices, would hail any light of a decision for them as a veritable light from Heaven; any making-up of his mind, so blessed, indispensable for him there,

Thomas Carlyle

#81. I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers.
Our brain does that sometimes.
Or at least mine does.

David Levithan

#82. You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

Maurice Sendak

#83. I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

Suzanne Vega

#84. Those are just platitudes. Everyone has his own idea of "playing fair."
"Does he? Try making up your own idea of what's fair
say, "giving the greatest rewards to the laziest workers"
and see how seriously people take you.

J. Budziszewski

#85. Everyone expected that we'd want to try again. But Robin said no, and I understood. And, you know, the world just went on. Our friends' kids grew up and we all kept making up our lives the way we always did. We turned out okay.

Sarah Selecky

#86. Etta, it could be everything, it could be nothing, what you're making up. You shouldn't let that bother you.

Emma Hooper

#87. After three League games, we have the same number of points as last year even if we have played two away games this time round, ... As we got back on the right track last season, including making up an eight-point gap in a few games, we just need to stay calm.

Adriano Galliani

#88. I am in the Special Operations Executive because I can speak French and German and am good at making up stories, and I am a prisoner in the Ormaie Gestapo HQ because I have no sense of direction whatsoever.

Elizabeth Wein

#89. I have been a journalist, off and on, since I was 17. I was a copy boy for the 'New York Times,' when it had an edition in Paris, in 1963. I sold the paper in the streets by day and tore wire copy off the tele-printer for the editors making up the edition by night.

Michael Ignatieff

#90. Instead of making up stories, stay with the facts. For example, "I am ruined" is a story. It limits you and prevents you from taking effective action. "I have 50 cents left in my bank account" is a fact.

Eckhart Tolle

#91. Grace is not a matter of God's making up the difference, but of God's providing all the "cost" of salvation through His Son, Jesus Christ.

Jerry Bridges

#92. I spent half my childhood in the shadows. Hiding from my father or my brother. Creeping from a place of solitude to another. Seeing while unseen, and pretending I was a part of what I saw. Making up a life where I wasn't an outcast.

Joe Abercrombie

#93. She genuinely likes people. All people, not just a select few she's spent years making up her mind about.

Suzanne Collins

#94. The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you.

Eva Cox

#95. I could always imagine more interesting places to be than where I was. And more interesting people than me being there. Eventually, this led to making up stories and writing things down.

Susanna Clarke

#96. The Jesus People experience proved to be a staging area for tens of thousands of young Americans who were making up their mind about marriage, schooling, and careers

Larry Eskridge

#97. Second-century Christian thinker Athenagoras wrote, Our life does not consist in making up beautiful phrases but in performing beautiful deeds.

Shane Claiborne

#98. For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory's The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.

Anita DeFrantz

#99. As far as subject matter, I'd say most of the songs aren't that personal to me. I love making up characters and kind of having fun in a different kind of way.

Carrie Underwood

#100. Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper.

P. J. O'Rourke