Making Quotes

Wherever you go in the history of America, there have been Black people making contributions, but their contributions have been obscured, lost, buried.

Sometimes people get mad at The Simpsons' subversive story telling, but there's another message in there, which is a celebration of making wild, funny stories.

If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

My style is about making things last forever. When you're on a budget, it can be daunting to spend $300 on a pair of boots or a coat. But such basics are the building blocks from which your look is crafted.

Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

The biggest challenge in my life is getting all these kids raised. I've helped with nieces, stepchildren and my own son, so the biggest challenge is making sure the kids are raised and finding enough quality time with them.

So much of art-making is about reducing things to the essentials, so I don't feel particularly crippled by this. I don't want it to look natural because then I would be making a documentary film.

By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.

Pell Grants are, and have been, critically important tools in making higher education a possibility for lower- and middle-income students.

King Charles II liked women's company and well as making love to them.

What people forget is that every movie that gets made keeps making money for somebody FOREVER.

The reason most people sweat is so they will not catch fire while they are making love.

Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States.

Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

I could sit there and eat pasta all day long and not worry about it when I was younger, and now I really have to focus on making sure I set a good example for my kids.

I was scheduled to give my first official press conference that morning anyway, 'cause I was chairman of the Governors Energy Council and I was making a press conference with regard to energy policy.

Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.