Makes Quotes

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.

The idea that you can ask one question and it makes the point - well, that wasn't how psychology was done at the time.

A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.

I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

When does life start? When does it end? Who makes these decisions?... Every day, in hospitals and homes and hospices... people are struggling with those profound issues.

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

What is it in my makeup that makes me grab any offer and fly around the world? Will I ever be satisfied? Can't I ever just rest?

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

I reiterate my proposal of creating life sentences for politicians who make deals with organized criminals. They deserve the maximum penalty because a politician that makes deals with criminals - I've said it, and I repeat it - is no longer a politician but just another 'capo.'

The way the terrorist is trained to operate, especially the suicide terrorists, makes punishment and the threat of punishment far less valuable to those who would prevent the crime.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.

And plenty makes us poor.

'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.

It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.

Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.

I just don't know what makes a movie catch on and other ones don't.

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It makes a blitzed Pacific island seem like an Eden. The damage is far greater than photographs can show.

She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.