Top 100 To Make Quotes
#1. Obama is not only obstructing budget reform; it's almost as if he is trying to make matters worse.
David Limbaugh
#2. However, he also trusted me to make my own decisions. Contradicting me or telling me what to do wasn't in his nature - even though he secretly may have wanted to.
Richelle Mead
#3. And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
Ian McDiarmid
#4. Constantly, I've been asked to make a sequel to 'Beckham.' However, I thought a West End show was the proper way to go. Once we made the show, I wanted to make sure that I embraced the West End genre rather than just put the film on stage.
Gurinder Chadha
#5. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
Groucho Marx
#6. Louisville was also good place for being able to make whatever kind of music you wanted to. You didn't have to worry about renting a practice space or figure out when another band would be in there or worry about if your stuff is going to get stolen.
David Pajo
#7. My mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.
Edith Konecky
#8. The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
E.B. White
#9. I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.
Henry Rollins
#10. We've got to make the small things unforgettable.
Steve Jobs
#11. In the book, D'Artagnan doesn't actually become an official Musketeer until quite near the end, and we make quite a big thing about that. I won't give too much away, but when he finally does make it, they're not going to make it easy for him. That never changes.
Adrian Hodges
#12. We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.
Lou Brock
#13. It is easier for an ambitious friend to become an enemy than for an enemy to become a friend. It is even easier to make friends than you can find people to trust as friends.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#14. Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run to cover, and you will have trouble in luring it out again to observe and weave tales and find words for all the thousand shades of feeling that go to make up a story.
Dorothea Brande
#15. Time flies so fast after youth is past that we cannot accomplish one half the many things we have in mind or indeed one half our duties. The only safe and sensible plan is to make other things give way to the essentials, and the first of these is fly fishing.
Theodore Gordon
#16. A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
Sally Schneider
#17. You eat as many vegetables as you can, and try to cut your carbs and your sugar. That's going to make the job of being a diabetic so much easier.
Jay Cutler
#18. Please don't be angry with him. My mither didn't love him, and he's still trying to make her.
Laurie Alice Eakes
#19. The news used to be to report facts and allow you to make the decision.
Jesse Ventura
#20. I saw 'Avatar' in the theater eight times and I got booed for it. I'm totally serious. First of all, I love that movie. I totally love that movie, but nothing intrigues me more than the fact that it made like $2.7 billion and so how many people had to see it for it to make that much money.
Casey Neistat
#21. And don't rush to make movies. Movies should be made when they're absolutely ready. There's too many bad movies being made.
James Ponsoldt
#22. Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.
Terence McKenna
#23. It is part of His plan to send suffering to bring out a higher good; but surely it's also part of His plan that as much of the burden of suffering as can be should be lightened by those whom it is His pleasure to make happy and content in their own circumstances.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#24. It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make a movie [ "World Of Tomorrow" ] out of it. It's a love letter to science fiction.
Don Hertzfeldt
#25. Babies have the power to make grumpy people happy because they love you no matter what. Dogs are that way, too.
Mariel Hemingway
#26. ...What makes it magic is taht we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm. But it's so easy to destroy and so much harder to make things better. that's why doing the right thing makes you stronger.
Charles De Lint
#27. When you go out to make something, you want it to be great. You need to put a bubble around that, so no one can get into the force field and change what you're setting out to make. That's all us being producers is doing, is allowing our power to protect the integrity of what you're doing.
Jonah Hill
#28. I went in for a checkup, and when my doctor had me stand on the scale, even he was surprised. Seeing that number (which I'll take to the grave) was a turning point. I knew I needed to make a change. I cut out white flour and starches and worked with my doctor and a nutritionist to develop a plan.
Adam Richman
#29. Jory gripped her chin, turning her to face him. His jaw hardened, and he tried to remain gentle. "Time to make a choice, sweetheart. Please. Choose me.
Rebecca Zanetti
#30. The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.
William Matthews
#31. I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.
Dan Maffei
#32. I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
Questlove
#33. When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.
Todd Solondz
#34. Wow. You really know how to make a woman happy..."
"I have a night-eight percent success rate with always knowing what will make a woman happy," he said.
Lindsey chuckled softly. "And how do you quantify that?"
"Would you like to know," he said.
Nat wanted to know.
Jamie Farrell
#35. I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.
Spike Jonze
#36. Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.
Simon Wiesenthal
#37. Probably one of the reasons I don't work in the mainstream anymore is that I'm only interested in making the stuff I want to make
Chris Cunningham
#38. You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.
Gary Ross
#39. Her voice was flat, in a way Myrna recognized from years of listening to people trying to rein in their emotions. To squash them down, flatten, them, and with them their words and their voices. Desperately trying to make the horrific sound mundane.
Louise Penny
#40. When the Apocalypse comes, you want to know an archaeologist, because we know how to make fire, catch food, and create hill forts,
Marilyn Johnson
#41. O beautiful, to make escape
And leave this world behind.
Had I to stay another day
I'd lose my fucking mind...
Gregory Maguire
#42. I want to make serious work that engages with serious subjects. I'm very lucky: I get to more or less make what I want.
Scott Rudin
#43. I wanted to make something that raised questions and was completely different and challenged the way most people experienced electronic music. So some people don't like me; that's OK.
Casey Spooner
#44. If you don't have a struggle inside or around you, you have to make one up.
Jack White
#45. It is reckless to make broad generalizations about any group of people.
Roger Ebert
#46. With independent film, simply because they don't have the money to make a big-budget film, they're forced to make a story that's important to them, that they would like to see on film, a personal story that people can relate to, about people, where you can see the love of the characters.
Seymour Cassel
#47. We spend a lot of effort trying to make things look effortless.
Alexander Isley
#48. All Christians are called to develop God-given talents, to make the most of their lives, and to develop to the fullest their God-given gifts and capabilities. But Jesus taught that ambition that centers on the self is wrong.
J. Oswald Sanders
#49. I knew: the gods turned once, in their madness,
Men into things, not killing humane senses.
You've been turned in to my reminiscences
To make eternal the unearthly sadness.
Anna Akhmatova
#50. No man has a good enough memory
to make a successful liar.
Abraham Lincoln
#51. It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff.
James Hunter
#52. With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.
Criss Jami
#53. My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.
Robyn Davidson
#54. Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow men, but also without fear of it.
Henry Parry Liddon
#55. It's hard to give up that amount of control. It's scary to make yourself that vulnerable. Because you might do all kinds of things that are unplanned or are unexpected that maybe don't work, and you have to trust the director to see that and work around those things. I find it really scary.
Sarah Polley
#56. With 'Sherry,' we were looking for a sound. We wanted to make the kind of mark that, if the radio was playing one of our songs, you knew who it was immediately. But I didn't want to sing like that my whole life.
Frankie Valli
#57. [Wearing padding to make my breasts look larger for a movie] was great, but it also made me think, you know, a lot of women who go out and get implants, what's so insecure about them that they would rather have someone look there than in their eyes?
Lara Flynn Boyle
#58. While economics is about how people make choice, sociology is about how they don't have any choice to make.
Bertrand Russell
#59. Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something
Joe Satriani
#60. It's as though our brains are configured to make a certain number of decisions per day and once we reach that limit, we can't make any more, regardless of how important they are.
Daniel J. Levitin
#61. Every day can be better than those before it if we have the courage to make it so.
Cordellya Smith
#62. I'm definitely a people pleaser. I like people to be happy around me and be comfortable. I go out of my way, sometimes to a fault, to make sure everyone is okay.
Ken Jeong
#64. Since becoming aware of the need to be inclusive, I've tried to make my stories broader and more representative of our world.
Ann Aguirre
#65. Every person is bound to make many mistakes; but he will make far fewer when his ability to judge has been properly trained.
Frank Morton McMurry
#66. What has mattered are the moments of exposure to every life, when habit is no longer enough, and choices have to be made. That's when everyone becomes a great man, for a moment; and the choices made in those moments, which come all too frequently, then combine to make history.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#67. Put another way, RBG was already a radical just by being herself - a woman who beat the odds to make her mark.
Irin Carmon
#68. We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.
Michelle Bachelet
#69. For the most part we allow only outlying and transient circumstances to make our occasions. They are, in fact, the cause of our distraction.
Henry David Thoreau
#70. For a long time, we have known that sometimes it serves you best simply to work around an obstacle, to make invisible what you are tired of seeing or don't understand.
Elizabeth Berg
#71. Jared gently pulled my chin to face him. "He said he wouldn't make you choose. But if you don't have a choice, I'm the one that loses. So I'm going to make you choose, Nina. Choose me. Please ... choose me." He shook his head. "I can't live without you.
Jamie McGuire
#72. Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Virginia Woolf
#73. Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation.
Shiv Khera
#74. That was the division in the hacking world: There were people who were exploring it and the people who were trying to make money from it. And, generally, you stayed away from anyone who was trying to make money from it.
Jeff Moss
#75. We got babies raising babies, and its important for us as responsible adults to go out and do what we can to make sure that our kids are steered in the right direction.
Alonzo Mourning
#76. I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.
Elsie De Wolfe
#77. I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.
Toyin Odutola
#78. Real men always have time for their woman. No matter what, even if hes busy he'll find a way to make time for her.
Wiz Khalifa
#79. One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#80. Each time I thought of him, something warm would heat up the pit of my stomach and excitement would flutter in my chest. I didn't yet know what to make of any of it but one thing was for sure; I didn't like it.
O.E. Boroni
#81. You were going to make me earn it. You would require a reason to trust me.
Jamie McGuire
#82. Facts are now coming to light that show Muslims were not responsible for 9/11. A policy came out of the Pentagon to make war and to pit the Muslims against each other and rip up these "cells of terror."
Louis Farrakhan
#83. If I had wanted only to make lots of money, I would have chosen a different profession.
Peter Stamm
#84. My dream is to have a baby, not to adopt one, because I am not up to it and I don't feel strong enough. I want my own child, a biological child, the fruit of my sperm, conceived through artificial insemination because it wouldn't make sense for me to make love to a woman I don't love.
Stefano Gabbana
#85. How did your day go?"
"I got some head. It was vamp, but still."
I stared at her. Kate was the last person I would have expected to make that joke. Well, someone had loosened up since mating. "That good, huh."
"Yup.
Ilona Andrews
#86. I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them alive' ... but I'm just a fucked up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.
Charlie Kaufman
#87. There is lots of pressure to make a GOOD film. And not just a GOOD film but one that will somehow stand out in the sea of GOOD films.
Aurora Guerrero
#88. The best way to conduct research on a larger scale is to make sure everyone knows what everyone else is doing ... The sooner the better - start talking to other people about what you're doing. Because that's what will stimulate things the fastest.
James Harris Simons
#89. Democracy is an excellent way of ensuring that nothing much gets done. There are always interests that might get trampled upon [and no elected politician would wish to make permanent enemies by trampling upon others' interests].
Edward De Bono
#90. It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law.
Carrie Nation
#91. Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made.
Orison Swett Marden
#92. Every business has two financial objectives: One is to make money; the other, more elusive, is to make money consistently.
Dave Liniger
#93. Really, we don't know what to make of it except that we're delighted about it. We have all these fans thirty years later and they're still around and will probably be around for a long time to come.
Russell Johnson
#95. For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it.
Allie Brosh
#96. Where you need to make fast decisions, people have to work in an open space where I can just walk to somebody's cube, so we don't need to schedule meetings for absolutely everything.
Marcelo Claure
#97. But basically courage is risking the known for the unknown, the familiar for the unfamiliar, the comfortable for the uncomfortable, arduous pilgrimage to some unknown destination. One never knows whether one will be able to make it or not. It is gambling, but only the gamblers know what life is. THE
Osho
#98. The way I define 'intelligent design' is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.
George Lucas
#99. Craziest thing I've done for love is getting married. I think it's crazy. I think it's crazy, crazy, crazy. I'm never going to say I wouldn't do it again but I have to make sure it's love and not settling for the 'I have to do this by a certain age,' which is kind of what I did.
Jenny McCarthy
#100. When I moved to Los Angeles, I figured I'm really going to make an attempt to become a real actor. And when I did that, I thought it was time for me to face my parents and tell them what I did.
Kenneth Choi
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