Makes Quotes

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing; that makes the arm stronger.

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.

In my opinion, Jesus is God's attempt to reach man. But while I believe Jesus is the way to God, it makes no sense to hate people who disagree.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

It's almost like, it's often the bad recording quality of things which makes them interesting.

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.

When you think about advertisements, it makes sense that they want to hold and retain our attention.

I have never understood that. I come from a place where the press makes or breaks an actor and it is more of a teamwork relationship.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

I don't think anyone can tell you what it is that makes you a star.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.

Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.

People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy - yet believes this only insofar as no personal risk is entailed. Meaning he loves no one, worthy or no. This is what makes him impossible.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.

People want to look taller and thinner. No one says, 'Ooh! Let me buy that dress because it makes me feel matronly!'

You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.