Quotes of: Made Keyword

The pros and cons of being a criminal: Pros—are cons that haven’t been caught. Cons—are former pros that made a mistake.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Successful companies are started, and made successful, by at least two, and usually more, soulmates.

The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

Anything and everything made her think about him. He was so much a part of her, embedded in her soul. [Mina and Diego]

ashes of autumn

The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.

All Things Considered

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.

On Aggression

The way he said it, with a twinkle in his already too-twinkly blue eyes, made Aimee feel twinkly, too.

Aimee and the Heartthrob

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

The Age of Innocence

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

He looked people in the eye not because he was interested in them but because he knew it made them feel that he was interested in them

Americanah

I may not have written the song, but I could add my story to it. Everyone out there could. That was what made music so powerful.

Amplified

The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . . a thing made to last, to connect the past with the future.

The Art of the Novel

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

Anathem

Some people make choices hoping for the best; Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst.

The Apprentice

THOMASINA: But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!

Arcadia

True hunger was a weapon stronger than any of his abstract desires. It’s what toppled countries and made men desperate.

Among the Nameless Stars

Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.

Walter Pater

It is as if people refused to leave their dead alone, forced them back into the light, made them keep their composure even in death.

Homecoming

I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry.

To Have and Have Not

Only one day at public school and the bitches already made your locker rain?" she laughs. "Impressive.

Hopeless

John Lennon said life was what happened while you made other plans. So was death.

Heat Rises

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading