Makes Quotes

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

Woody Allen would go for seven years without a movie and then make one that makes no money.

Bargaining makes you come up with the best ideas.

That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

There's always competition out there. That's what makes life exciting.

It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

I am so not a proper, good female. I can't dance in high heels and I'm just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having so much fun with so much make-up on. That makes me honestly want to be a better woman.

Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.

A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.

Under Barack Obama, the only 'Change' is that 'Hope' has been hard to find. Now millions of Americans are insecure about their future. But instead of inspiring us by reminding us of what makes us special, he divides us against each other. He tells Americans they're worse off because others are better off. That people got rich by making others poor.

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

Whatever makes an impression on the heart seems lovely in the eye.

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

Your wit makes others witty.

Since there will be no one left to talk peace after the next war, it makes good sense to break with tradition and hold the peace conference first.