Makes Quotes

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

Your wit makes others witty.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

When you compete with good people, it makes everybody better.

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

Although the Internet makes it seem as if you have a direct connection to the securities market, you don't. Lines may clog; systems may break; orders may back-up.

I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.

I like the way black looks. I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease. The black is sort of the bad-guy guise, so I work overtime to make people comfortable.

I think any parent that makes their kid sit at a piano against their will and practice, they're going to have a kid that's not going to want to play the piano.

There are many hands touching ballots after a voter drops his ballot into the ballot box. There is no guarantee of ballot secrecy for anyone, which makes the whole system vulnerable to intimidation and bribery.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope.

The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

There's something about me that makes a lot of people want to throw up.

I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie - or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people's life better, then that's something that's really good.

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.