Makes Quotes

The return makes one love the farewell.

Underwear makes me uncomfortable and besides my parts have to breathe.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.

When employers tell me they prefer married men, and encourage their men to have homes of their own, because it makes them so much steadier, I wonder if they have any idea of all that that implies.

Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

I think what makes a good actor's director is somebody who understands what I'm doing and is respectful of it, but who also has a vision and is directing me toward their vision in a way that feels productive.

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

Having a child makes you realize the importance of life - narcissism goes out the window. Heaven on earth is looking at my little boy. The minute he was born, I knew if I never did anything other than being a mom, I'd be fine.

I take smack because I enjoy it. I enjoy all it makes me feel. I don't do it to be in with the in crowd. I can rock out with it.

Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.

Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.

Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.