Making Quotes

It is a trick among the dishonest to offer sacrifices that are not needed, or not possible, to avoid making those that are required.

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

There're so many things I want to do, like become more media savvy. I am too lazy. But I'm making an effort.

The fact of the matter is right now politicians and insurance companies are making decisions. We're saying we want doctors to be making decisions. And I think that will lead to a higher-quality, lower-cost system over time.

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel sorry for my psychopaths, because I do.

It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.

Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time.

If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it.

Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it.

There are many people making a difference. I mean, Dr. King never held an office. Gandhi never held an office. There are people who are archetypes in our society who have never held office and made a difference.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.

I was not making enough time to take care of me.

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

My making it is a combination of grinding, grinding, grinding and being lucky enough to finally get a shot.

One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it.

When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.

I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

There are certain economics involved in making a network TV show that you want to amortize the costs of that, so the more episodes you make, the cheaper they all are individually.

Even President Bush has cited the need to outlaw the practice of corporations making loans to their officers. Strangely enough, when the President was a corporate officer, he took out several loans from the company.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.