Makes Quotes

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

There is nothing new, from Greek mythology to Shakespeare to every romcom ever made, we're just reimagining the same 12 story plots over and over again - so what makes people keep watching and listening? It's all about the character.

A wah-wah is important as well. I love it; it makes the guitar scream.

The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

The reward is every night. The 90 minutes is such a payoff for us every night; it makes it all worth it to us. The fans who come to the shows know how much we enjoy this.

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale.

I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor, my relationship with the actor, and so on.

I'm having fun opening up. Sort of struggling to get the audience into it. It's good. It makes you fight. Not fight like antagonistic. But fight for what you believe.

The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.

The irony of that is, what makes it kind of ironic, is when you do become successful as a professional athlete in particular, a lot of the young children who are emulating these stars do have a different perspective.

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.

Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.

We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't.

I've dated some women who have turned me on to some funny things that are strange for men to actually do, but these things have become part of my process. I think the things I do for my appearance help make me look better. I even colour my hair because I like how it makes me look.

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.

I follow the most random people on Twitter. I follow famous people like Khloe Kardashian, who surprisingly makes really funny tweets all the time.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper bringing-up, a sound set of values - and witnesses.

I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.