Makes Quotes

You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.

We don't just want to win the Super Bowl, we want to make a dynasty. I want to be a player who makes that a reality.

What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

I don't think Amber taped Scott or testified for money, but the opportunity certainly presented itself. It makes me a bit uncomfortable, but at least she never sold the story before trial to the tabloids.

Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Comedy makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.

I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain.

Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

The thing about looking back over Clinton's presidency, and probably anybody's presidency, is that when you look back, the events all line up in a way that makes sense. At the time, you don't know where it's going.

It is important for women to know who they are, and to know what makes their hearts sing.

This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.