Makes Quotes

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them?

I like a guy who makes me laugh, doesn't care about the fame, the show, he just likes me for me, he likes Nicole.

Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.

I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid.

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now?

I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

L.A. makes you feel ugly.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.