Makes Quotes

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.

It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh... it's as simple as that.

Everybody has 24 hours and the question is, what do you do with your 24 hours? That's what makes everybody equal.

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.

Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.

A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.

My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really am. A lot of people don't realise that merely by staying away, you can create a myth.

Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America sees two John Kerrys.

Sometimes I try to improve the language, the lines, or the delivery, but I don't ad-lib because I think that makes it really hard for everybody else involved.

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

It's not what you do once in a while, it's what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that's true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You have a richer life.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Oh, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

Some people are born with a brain that has this weird, magical mathematical thing that makes them an amazing jazz musician.

As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.