T'make Quotes

#1. But literacy didn't make you smart, just like, as Twill had already figured out, money didn't make you rich.

Walter Mosley

#2. Don't make me think

Steve Krug

#3. There's something that doesn't make sense. Let's go and poke it with a stick.

Steven Moffat

#4. If you don't like the truth, then don't make it the truth.

J.W. Snootz

#5. Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

Mary Doria Russell

#6. Whatever that day has given, you have to make it the best of the best. That's one thing I've learned over my years. On days when you can't make everything what you want, do what you do best, make it as positive as possible, and go from there. Learn from your mistakes.

Troy Dumais

#7. You have to follow your instinct all the time. Otherwise you don't make it.

Ruth Bernhard

#8. I do take defeats well. However, I don't just leave them at that. I take time to analyze why I was defeated and make sure I don't make the same mistakes again. I think it is important to learn from one's mistakes.

Rain

#9. I feel like I should love them right away. But how do you do that? You can't make yourself love someone, can you?

Ann Brashares

#10. My first wife was a bear in the morning. I love me some passion, and I gotta have a woman who puts a little pepper in the gumbo, but I didn't make that morning mistake twice.

Mary Jane Hathaway

#11. You don't make movies about "men" and "women." You make movies about this guy and this woman and if you get them right, you'll automatically connect with a lot of people.

Steven Shainberg

#12. I haven't had any action since the late seventies, so don't make me jealous. I don't think my heart can handle an erection.

Elle Aycart

#13. Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does.

Felix Dennis

#14. I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.

Aaron Patzer

#15. A voice came out of the darkness.
'Don't make it so wide. It's not a grave. You're making work for yourself.

Robert Harris

#16. I don't make things complicated, that's the way they get all by themselves.

Mel Gibson

#17. A stock (pile) of money doesn't make you any richer than it makes exchange easier

Amah Lambert

#18. Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now, the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

Charlie Sheen

#19. I call it the "Fuck up, own up, and get up" policy. Make a mistake, admit it, and move on. We all screw up, but a man solves his problems. He doesn't make them worse.

Penelope Douglas

#20. Video games don't make people go nuts. I played Super Mario forever. Not once hopping on a turtle or smash my head through a brick ceiling.

Dane Cook

#21. The fact that a question can be phrased in a grammatically correct English sentence doesn't make it meaningful, or entitle it to our serious attention.

Richard Dawkins

#22. Gay people, we die in all the movies, like we almost always die in the movie, because that's what you can do to us that's dramatic. We can't make a baby.

Guy Branum

#23. People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn't make sense how they'd laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone.

Tablo

#24. Having children doesn't make you a good parent, it means you had sex. That's all.

Dave Ramsey

#25. My dear boy, " Miss Frost said sharply. "My dear boy, please don't put a label on me - don't make a category before you get to know me!

John Irving

#26. A crap upbringing doesn't make someone weak, it makes them strong or how else could they get through it.

Suzanne Wrightt

#27. I tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don't make the final cut. See it as an opportunity, although it took me a while to enjoy that 'lost in the woods' feeling.

Joe Meno

#28. Holding something doesn't make it yours. You realize at some point you're just keeping it back for yourself, because it's pulling away with equal force. You've got to cut the string from your finger and leave that wispy thread, like a baby spider on the breeze.

Craig Silvey

#29. No. Never. I have to try my best or I'll become worse and worse. Even if I can't make up with them. Even if they all ignore me. I still have to try my best.

Natsuki Takaya

#30. Just because words come out of somebody's mouth doesn't make them true.

Rebecca Brockway

#31. If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

Erma Bombeck

#32. The old wives' tale about cold showers is false: blasting your body with a couple gallons of ice water doesn't make you any less horny. It just makes you horny and cold.

Nenia Campbell

#33. Fewer people die when you are around. These are the facts. Being upset about them don't make them false.

Patricia Briggs

#34. I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.

Brian Cox

#35. You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

Eve Arnold

#36. I like to think I don't make music for ignorant people.

Tinie Tempah

#37. You can't make them shut up, but you can damn teach them a lesson. - Johan

Diyar Harraz

#38. Repetition creates pattern. If I have a hundred of these, a hundred of those, it doesn't make any difference what these and those are. If I can repeat anything, I have the possibility of a pattern from hickory nuts and chicken eggs, shards of glass, branches. It doesn't make any difference.

Dan Phillips

#39. All the measurement in the world is useless if you don't make any changes based on the data.

Amber Naslund

#40. Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#41. You can't make a writer without first making a reader, and that's what my mother made me.

Richard Russo

#42. Making an effort can be equated to not doing anything at all. You don't make an effort to walk, you just walk. It's the same with winning. You don't make an effort to win, you just do it.

Lionel Suggs

#43. Probability doesn't make mistakes; people using probability make mistakes.

Charles Wheelan

#44. A growl rumbled behind us. "Could you not touch her?" Ren didn't make it sound like a question. "Bite me," Shay snarled. "Stop it. Both of you.

Andrea Cremer

#45. Gagging didn't make him angry, it made him horny. The sadistic kind of horny that led to worse things.

Pepper Winters

#46. Stay in school, stay off drugs, don't make the same mistakes I did, respect yourself, and others will follow.

Ike Turner

#47. Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.

Ranbir Kapoor

#48. When everything seems to impact everything and there's no easy answer, I ask myself: Will this decision take me closer or farther from you? And then it's so clear. Even if it doesn't make sense at the time.

Kim Harrison

#49. Don't let anyone make you believe that without their support you can't make it, hey look up, help is coming from unexpected places. Cheer up!

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#50. And I told you before, I'll sell you any of the thoroughbreds."
"I didn't make any of those thoroughbreds. I didn't make them what they are."
"You made all of them what they are."
I don't look at him. "None of them made me who I am.

Maggie Stiefvater

#51. If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry!
- Angela to Eragon

Christopher Paolini

#52. When I started to play, all the coaches said it didn't make sense for me to try to play tennis because I was too small. They said I would never make it. But this was something that motivated me. I really wanted to make it.

Dominika Cibulkova

#53. Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles.

Jon Landau

#54. Don't make excuses, make good.

Elbert Hubbard

#55. The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn't make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so overwhelmed by the world's suffering, you go mad.

Bella Pollen

#56. You gotta know it before you move on. You gotta recognize yourself. Understand the lessons. If you cain't make no sense of it, well then, what use was it?

Eric Arvin

#57. Most actors can't make any kind of living.

Viggo Mortensen

#58. It's not her fault," she said. "Nobody knows how to grieve in this country. They don't make any noise. Nobody taught them how. I don't want to be that way.

Peter Gould

#59. The best man day in the world would involve building a bridge and then blowing up that bridge. Which is why you can't make a better man movie than The Bridge on the River Kwai, unless you make Two Bridges on the River Kwai.

Joel Stein

#60. It's a good thing you don't bring Lily in to the bar. If they see what a beautiful baby you made, we'll have to double our napkin orders."
He propped his elbows on the bar so his face was very close to hers.
"I can't make magic like Lily with any woman but you.

Shannon Stacey

#61. If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.

E. Stanley Jones

#62. A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

Art Blakey

#63. I can't speak for everybody, I think, for me, I will not be defined by the lyrics of my song. I am a man who does music. It's like clothes don't make the man, the man makes the clothes. It's, it's like that song don't make me, I make the song.

Teddy Pendergrass

#64. We won't make ourselves more creative and productive by copying other people's habits, even the habits of geniuses; we must know our own nature, and what habits serve us best.

Gretchen Rubin

#65. [H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.

Jenny O'Connell

#66. It doesn't make sense, it's not logical, it's not a safe profession or a smart profession if you wanna make money or have a living or have a family. So the fact that we keep doing [theatre] means we're getting something from it that is almost childlike in its innocence.

Santino Fontana

#67. If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you don't want.

Kevin Ngo

#68. Don't accept that you can't make a difference. Because if you can't make a difference, you won't make a difference, and if you put a multiplier on that we will continue on an unsustainable pathway.

Maurice Strong

#69. Everyone gets a pencil as a kid, but it doesn't make them all authors or painters or drawers or anything else.

Nigel Barker

#70. Grassroots techies - the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don't make the headlines - hate, loathe, and despise Microsoft. At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed.

Virginia Postrel

#71. Why would they follow me?" I asked Swedish. "It doesn't make sense."
"They're made of trash and Fog," he said. "You think they make sense?

Joel N. Ross

#72. Data!data!data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#73. I learned a long time ago that it doesn't make me less of a woman because my babies come out of a different place. My C-sections have been fine.

Angie Harmon

#74. We have stopped natural selection from purifying the species because deep in our heart of hearts, we are all terrified that we won't make the cut.

Moxie Mezcal

#75. A piece of paper doesn't make you a pastor any more than making predictions makes you a prophet.

D.R. Silva

#76. This didn't make me sad exactly - it was more a feeling that my own world was too simple, too smooth, too boring and worthless. The most I could do was have another name, Ninna Hori.

Natsuo Kirino

#77. That's how I knew I loved her so much, because not loving her didn't make any sense once I'd known what it felt like.

John Corey Whaley

#78. Physiologically, it simply doesn't matter whether your anger is justified or not. The body doesn't make moral judgements about feelings; it just responds.

Doc Childre

#79. If God didn't make men equal, Samuel Colt did.

Colt

#80. Life doesn't make any sense unless you can enjoy the journey, and sometimes I take that for granted.

Scott Weiland

#81. Just because it's the first time doesn't make it less real, does it? Even the universe has a beginning.

Nicola Yoon

#82. Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.

Joe Garagiola

#83. Don't make a threat and then not do it.

Suzanne Vega

#84. I used to always pull my jersey out of my pants. Earl Tatum was like that, too. I was just more comfortable. There were no rules then. They didn't make you tuck your jerseys in and it was just comfortable for me.

Bo Ellis

#85. Annabeth frowned. "That doesn't make sense. But why were you visiting
" Her eyes widened. "Hermes said you bear the curse of Achilles. Hestia said the same thing. Did you ... did you bathe in the River Styx?"
"Don't change the subject."
"Percy! Did you or not?"
"Um ... maybe a little.

Rick Riordan

#86. I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.

Chad Harbach

#87. I have many stories which don't make it to the computer. When I put it into the computer I make some changes and often add a few sentences here and there. I like the typewriter for first drafts because it means you can't change anything right away, you just have to put it all down.

Arthur Bradford

#88. If you can't make something self-evident, you at least need to make it self-explanatory.

Steve Krug

#89. Don't make excuses for why you're not doing what you have already deemed critical to your success.

Lorii Myers

#90. I get very anti-social, depressed and irritable with people. I don't have time for them. I can't make phone calls and stuff. I just sit on my own for days.

Simon Cowell

#91. Packing a bag doesn't make you aware of changes, rather it compels you to postpone the past, and the present is taken up with concerns about the immediate. Time slides over the travelers' skin.

Andres Neuman

#92. I have been doing marriage counseling for about 15 years and I realized that what makes one person feel loved, doesn't make another person feel loved.

Gary Chapman

#93. Every spellbinder has a signature," I said. "Once I learn to recognize that signature, I become immune. They can't make it happen to me after that." I

Anne Rice

#94. A lot of times, people think that it doesn't make sense for people to be depressed when they have everything, a loving husband, a successful career, fame and fortune. I wanted to make this point that profound despair can strike anybody.

Miriam Toews

#95. This is priceless. Big stud on campus couldn't make a girl come. You've officially given me enough ammo to rag on you for years."
Yup, I sure did. Nobody ever said I was smart.

Elle Kennedy

#96. A farmer's got to be born, same as a fool. You can't make a corn pone out of flour dough by the twistin' of it.

Ellen Glasgow

#97. I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

Denzel Washington

#98. A thousand plastic flowers don't make a desert bloom. A thousand empty faces don't fill an empty room.

Frederick Salomon Perls

#99. Children judge each other harshly, but don't make nice distinctions among the grown.

Bill Holm

#100. God doesn't make mistakes and timing unfolds as it should.

Ashley Judd