Makes Quotes

Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man.

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

There are people who can't stand me, they say, 'God, he makes me sick', or, 'He's creepy', but it doesn't affect me too badly.

Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.

What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.

We're frightened of what makes us different.