Making Quotes

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.

A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making.

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.

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.

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

I never thought of what I was doing as a way to sell the NFL. I was making movies about a sport that I loved, about players and coaches that I respected. I wanted to convey my love of the game through film. And most artists convey their love through art. And my art and my love was expressed through film.

Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.