Quotes of: Makes Keyword

If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you did, you should already be making the next thing. If bad revi...

Neil Gaiman

He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can...

Bob Marley

Martha Brewster: [about the men they have poisoned] Let me see, now. This is eleven, isn't it, Abby? Abby Brewster: Oh, no, dear. This makes twelve. Martha Brewster: Abby, dear. I think you're wrong. This one is only eleven. Abby Brewster: No, dear, ...

Arsenic and Old Lace

The thing in jazz that will get Bix Beiderbecke out of his bed at two o’clock in the morning, pick that cornet up and practice into the pillow for another two or three hours, or that would make Louis Armstrong travel around the world for fifty plus...

Wynton Marsalis

We interrogate the world by making.

Bill Burnett

You should make a new bucket whilst you still have the old one.

Berber

Age does not give you good sense, it only makes you go slowly.

Finnish

A dog will not make himself look like a horse just by cutting off his tail.

Indian

Greed keeps men forever poor, even the abundance of this world will not make them rich.

Mongolian

An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late.

Portuguese

The thief makes perhaps one mistake; those he stole from made a hundred.

Russian

Who cares about every little feather should not make the bed.

Swiss

You must be fully prepared to lose a great deal in order to make a great deal.

Traditional

If the rich could hire others to die for them, the poor could make a nice living.

Yiddish

Educators are spiritual beings—we are on earth to make a difference.

The Comfort of Little Things: An Educator's Guide to Second Chances

Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.

The Complete Essays

If a cook can't make soup between two and seven, she can't make it in a week.

Can You Forgive Her?

Scribble out the world since it was not to your liking and make up a new one, something better.

Child of My Heart

Control is as much an effect as a cause, and the idea that control is something you exert is a real handicap to progress

Creation: Life and How to Make It

When you stop making excuses, you start making progress!

Congratulations! You Just Lost Your J.O.B

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage