Makes Quotes

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.

You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

India buzzes for its players and that makes you feel special.

The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.

You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes.

I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.

When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

I think its so good for boxing when a new guy or new blood as we call it, makes a big statement.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

I can promote until I am blue in the face, but ultimately nobody knows what makes a hit.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

It is not always what we know or analyzed before we make a decision that makes it a great decision. It is what we do after we make the decision to implement and execute it that makes it a good decision.

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

I have never started a novel - I mean except the first, when I was starting a novel just to start a novel - I've never written one without rereading Victory. It opens up the possibilities of a novel. It makes it seem worth doing.