Makes Quotes

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.

What makes me unique is that I'm normal.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.

Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

Most of the time I've worked in labs if I didn't encounter something in a week entirely unexpected and surprising I'd consider it a lost week. Lots of that is due to mistakes and stupidity, but it could open a new line of inquiry. Something really good turns up once in a hundred times, but it makes the whole day worthwhile.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

Making this movie was a great opportunity for me to explore high-definition. I'm glad I got to see what the challenges are, what makes it better. It works wonderfully.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.

Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.

The idea that we can actually have an impact on places more or less instantly, too, by responding in some way or not responding, I think, also makes it true.

There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.

I've had the same, full-time assistant and typist for eight or nine years now. She's read everything I've written, she types everything and does a good job, translates it and makes comments.

Practice makes permanent.

I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.

When you fall in love, you wanna share it with people but you know there are some things that you need to keep to yourself, 'cause privacy makes things last longer, I feel.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

French is a language that makes those who speak it both calm and dynamic.

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.