Mak'st Quotes

#1. Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear
A stranger to thy thoughts.

William Shakespeare

#2. Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

George Herbert

#3. Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund

William Shakespeare

#4. Riches, the dumb god that giv'st all men tongues, / That canst do nought, and yet mak'st men do all things; / The price of souls; even hell, with thee to boot, / Is made worth heaven!

Ben Jonson

#5. Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As pious maid awakes her aged sire, On tiptoe stealing, whisper in his ear The tidings of the young god's victory.

Hartley Coleridge

#6. Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.

Kiki Smith

#7. I really have to say 'thank you' to our fans, because I think it's difficult for European viewers to find and watch Asian movies, and I hope you enjoy our films.

Alan Mak

#8. Practice makes permentant, never perfection, but perfection is a goal to strive for.

Jordan Mak

#9. I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo.

Alan Mak

#10. A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.

Robert Burns

#11. Five Days in London is the title of John Lukac's

Geert Mak

#12. Tell me again about how it's impossible to do and how it can't be done, then get out of my way and watch me do it.

Mak W Boyer

#13. Are you going? What shall you wear?"
"I shall go in what I am standing in," said Mak Genggang. "A witch is always appropriate whatever her attire.

Zen Cho

#14. Tae be yersel an tae mak that worth bein
Nae harder job tae mortals has been gien

Hugh McDiarmid

#15. Please explain to me why John Kerry sounds more dickish telling the truth than Bush sounds when he's lying. How is that possible?

Jon Stewart

#16. The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#17. They disappear and it echoes.
I'd really like to talk about it now

A.S. King

#18. I like shooting movies in Thailand very much because the government is so cooperative there. The police help you to close the roads for shooting.

Alan Mak

#19. The fool is his own enemy. Seeking wealth, he destroys himself. Seek rather the other shore.

Gautama Buddha

#20. All unemployed Jews are sent to labour camps in the countryside. A survivor remembered that "It was like a Russian winter. The snow lay metres deep on the tracks and froze over. To be there made one feel as though one was overwintering in Nova Zemlya."27

Geert Mak

#21. Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.

Wallace Stevens

#22. Deep is where your soul waits while you live like nothing terrible happened.

Sandi Morgan Denkers

#23. One of the things that may get in the way of people ... is that they're not in touch with their passion. If you're passionate about what it is you do, then you're going to be looking for everything you can to get better at it.

Jack Canfield

#24. Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.

Thom Mayne

#25. Nowhere but in England are the papers so full of fascinating misbehaviour. There is always a scandal brewing, there is always a politician, village vicar or bank manager being pilloried, yet at the same time the country breathes a remarkable sense of order.

Geert Mak

#26. The reflex of fear was soon replaced with another, more useful emotion.
Rage.

Tara Moss

#27. I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal.

Margaret Cho

#28. Beautee eneuch to mak a world to dote.

James I Of Scotland

#29. Why, all the greatest magic comes down to blood," said Mak Genggang. "And who knows blood better than a woman?

Zen Cho

#30. For to be yong I wald not, for my wis, Off all this warld to mak me lord and king: The more of age, the nerar hevynnis blis.

Robert Henryson

#31. For John Woo, it is quite difficult to make a movie in Hollywood in his own style. Because Hollywood is based on a producer system, it is difficult for a director to express himself using his own style of filmmaking.

Alan Mak

#32. We talk about the vulnerability involved in sharing our work publicly. I don't think we talk enough about the real vulnerability involved in making art; if we truly engage the process we are changed by it.

John Paul Caponigro

#33. You gather apples in the sunshine, or make hay, or

Ralph Waldo Emerson