Makes Quotes

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.

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like I've succeeded, if I'm doing something that makes me happy and I'm not lying to anybody.

Lack of sleep makes me less productive. I need a good seven or eight hours a night.

Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.

The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

Nobody makes me laugh like my wife.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.

Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.

At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality.

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

I decided that I was going to be the Kennedy who makes her own name and finds her own job and works like a dog. My comeuppance was when Arnold got elected - I became the Kennedy who was married to the governor.

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

It's only the giving that makes you what you are.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others more attracted to them.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.