Making Quotes

I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.

When you make work, your goal might not be first and foremost to have as many people as possible see it, but it might be more about honing your craft as a storyteller or making art, but, there's no doubt about it, you want lots of people to see it.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

The Four Seasons was making me popular in Britain, but EMI America had no interest in making that happen in the States, so I just had a classical career there.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

My overnight success was really 15 years in the making. I'd been writing songs since I was 6 and playing in bands and performing since I was 14.

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.

It's not just a hurricane. It's the demand for gas in China... We're paying $3 a gallon, and the oil companies are making historic profits every quarter.

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.

A two-speed Europe will not be a strong Europe. The idea of making decisions and policies in a narrow circle, disregarding smaller EU members, will make it hard to engage them to commit to a common policy, which will weaken the union.

The President then proceeded to read his Emancipation Proclamation, making remarks on the several parts as he went on, and showing that he had fully considered the whole subject, in all lights under which it had been presented to him.

In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

What celebrities are useful for is bringing attention to the public and making them more aware. They can be unbelievably effective.

I decry the current tendency to seek patents on algorithms. There are better ways to earn a living than to prevent other people from making use of one's contributions to computer science.

There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

You're either making money or you're not. If you're not making money get out of the business.

Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making.

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.

If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.

Thank you for making a web site for me. I was so surprised when I found it.

I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.