Making Quotes

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move.

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

Our leaders continue to say that we're making strong headway against this problem. And I think we are not.

I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can.

I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination.

We all know the stories about the Human Rights Act... about the illegal immigrant who cannot be deported because, and I am not making this up, he had a pet cat.

At my lowest I was making nothing, of course.

I never thought of punk rock as the absolute act of rebellion for the sake of rebellion. There's a lot of that in there, but for me I think punk rock was always about questioning things and making decisions for yourself, which is a great message to pass on to your kids.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

I am certainly not arguing for the de facto autonomy of the individual work, even though there is much to be said for making the attempt to see it in that light as one facet of the reception process.

The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.

I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making someting out of wood, you make it out of yourself. That's the actor's craft - using yourself to create a character.

I'm sick of making bloody history.

I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.

I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.