Making Quotes

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder.

I have to thank my mum for kicking me out at 16 and making me stand on my own two feet - that's how I got here.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.

Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural - it's so hard!

It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

I never got tired of Tom and Jerry, but I did have a dream of doing more with my life than making cartoons.

The opera always loses money. That's as it should be. Opera has no business making money.

Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

Later on when it became a routine it was not as exciting I'll admit that. The first three years were wonderful, the rest were just money making and having fun.

My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy.

We can't get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we can't just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare.

It's cool when fans spend so much time making things for me. It means a lot.

Winning the Rookie of the Year would be nice but making the playoffs would be even nicer for me.

I had a really good time with Martha Stewart, who also is somebody I really admire a lot. I've learned a lot from her and I think all of America has, about attention to detail and using fresh ingredients and making things beautiful and special.

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.

One thing that changed when I moved upstate was that I became interested in different materials. I started making the stone benches because I was seeing rocks.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.

Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great.

I love actors, both my parents were actors, and the work with actors is the most enjoyable part of making a film. It's important that they feel protected and are confident they won't be betrayed. When you create that atmosphere of trust, it's in the bag - the actors will do everything to satisfy you.

I love making independent movies, and that's pretty much what I'm going to be doing for the rest of my years.

The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive.

If I'm making a movie and get hungry, I call time-out and eat some crackers.