Makes Quotes

What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

India buzzes for its players and that makes you feel special.

The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.

I go out with white women. This makes a lot of people unhappy, mostly black women.

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.

You can tell a good putt by the noise it makes.

I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

If I'm going to be a leader then I have to go places that other people are afraid to go to. That's what makes a leader. To be not afraid to step out and go over the frontline. To stare darkness right in the face.

Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy.

Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Coming from a barely clothed childhood as a swimmer makes me really comfortable with my body.

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.

Everyone has a story that makes me stronger. I know that the work I do is important and I enjoy it, but it is nice to hear the feedback of what we do to inspire others.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

Barack Obama makes me feel good to be a black man.

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.