Makes Quotes

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.

So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I've got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that's the way I'm going to take it.

I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball.

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.

Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?

I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Countries and states which have capital punishment have a much higher rate of murder and crime than countries that do not, so that makes sense to me, and the moral question - I struggle with it morally.

I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.

Unfortunately, the Church's position on most contemporary issues makes it hard to take them seriously.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul.

A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.

School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother.

Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.

The sound is the key; audiences will accept visual discontinuity much more easily than they'll accept jumps in the sound. If the track makes sense, you can do almost anything visually.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it, when we see it, but we can't define it.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.