Makes Quotes

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.

I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.

It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.

I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a "learning experience." Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a "learning experience." It makes me feel less stupid.

I could stop and say, Well that was a D minor, G seven, but I really don't want to know that. I just want to know that there's a combination of notes that makes a sound.

When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would we rehire Barack Obama now?

I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh.

Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee.

L.A. makes you feel ugly.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject; the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

Skiing makes me feel great, and it gives my legs such an incredible workout.

Whenever something happens that makes me laugh or if I remember something in the middle of the night that I want to share, I jot the experience down.

I hang out with all the crew on set. It just makes it easier to work. You feel more comfortable around everyone.

I've been vegan for 15 years, and it turns out it makes a very big impact on the environment to eat fewer animal products, which cause more greenhouse gases than all of transportation combined.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while.

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that.

Globalisation makes it clear that social responsibility is required not only of governments, but of companies and individuals. All sources must interact in order to reach the MDGs.