Makes Quotes

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

There are people who can't stand me, they say, 'God, he makes me sick', or, 'He's creepy', but it doesn't affect me too badly.

Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

I've always thought something that makes you laugh, it makes you laugh because there's a little bit of truth to it.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.

I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check.

What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.

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

We're frightened of what makes us different.

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

You don't notice the referee during the game unless he makes a bad call.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.

When I was heavier, I danced and I jumped out of planes. I've always rejected the idea that there's a certain look or size that makes it acceptable to live life.

The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.