Making Quotes

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.

I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.

When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even cut my own salary by 30% to show we are making sacrifices.

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Eloquence, n. The art of orally persuading fools that white is the color that it appears to be. It includes the gift of making any color appear white.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades.

For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.

I have been making wire jewelry - and think I'll really do something with it, eventually.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.

Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

Most medical physicists work in the physics of radiation oncology making sure that the desired dose is given to the cancer and the dose to normal tissues are minimized.

There have been times when I've been asked to do things and I've thought, 'This is great! This is a great script. But, I do not believe myself in this role.' I pretend I'm the producer and I think, 'If I was making this movie, would I cast myself in this part,' and if that doesn't feel right to me, then I don't even go audition for it.

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

Prior to ROE V. WADE, abortions were common even though they were illegal. I don't think making them illegal again is going to solve the problem.

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.

So Europe's a big driver. And at one point, if the euro hadn't devalued, they would have been making as much money as the US with half the stores. Returns were higher.

In the '70s, the gay movement was really making strides. Huge strides. And then AIDS came along and slapped a judgment on it all and the Right Wing religious movement was like, 'See. This is why, we told you.' And it pushed back the movement 30 years.

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

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends.

What I think is that we in the church - and especially I as an Archbishop - I'm responsible for maintaining our rules, and making sure we hold to unity in the Body of Christ.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

If the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them.

What I can't figure out is why we're not making more R-rated movies, actually.

Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.

I'm hyperactive, and I went in the studio and I would just start making records, for no reason.

Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

The No. 1 question I get from everybody is, 'How did you make it?' I'm like, Don't worry about making it. There is no making it. Just be happy.

If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.

The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life.

Britain, however, has ended up specialising in the ones you don't see as much of: defence aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 per cent of the world's mobile phones. And so there's a danger that because it doesn't have a British flag on it, people won't realise that we actually do produce value.

Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones.

Interest rate cuts have an effect in stimulating an economy by directly or indirectly making someone, somewhere, spend more than they otherwise would. That extra spending increases demand and ensures that we all carry on with work to do, without us having to slash our prices or our wrists.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.

Because education is the backbone of a competitive workforce and successful economy, making it a priority is not uncommon.

I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that.

All but a very few of us are in debt. We exist as entities who borrow money and spend the rest of our lives making interest payments on a debt tally that never seems to budge. Whatever wealth we have, in labor, property or cash, is suctioned to the top.

The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.

It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and there are so many people relying on you in a lot of ways.

Presidents do not go into war lightly. It's a tremendous responsibility in making decisions, and I know Bush must deeply believe this is the only course.

I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture; I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.

I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.

I'm so uncoordinated.

Being flirty is a way of letting a guy know you're interested without making a fool out of yourself.

It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.

I got to meet Mark Hamill. He signed some Star Wars posters for us. I saw the fight scenes he had. He was really into making fun of himself and Star Wars.

There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.

I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly.

What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.

The fact is I'm not making a film in order to draw pictures or make images about Iran.

Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.

You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?