Making Quotes

Everybody loves a hit. There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie.

Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

A successful economic development strategy must focus on improving the skills of the area's workforce, reducing the cost of doing business and making available the resources business needs to compete and thrive in today's global economy.

I recorded that because it happened to me. I wasn't making a point.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

My first show sold within the first 3 minutes, and I came back to the studio and spent the next two and a half years making almost nothing.

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.

I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed veterans. I was making 150 bucks a week and it was horrible.

I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our own and together.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.

We were making the first step out of the age of chemistry and physics, and into the age of biology.

Do business managers have a commitment to anything more than the success of their company and to making money? It would be hard to say that they do. Indeed, many business leaders deny that there is any conflict between self-interest and the interests of all.

If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.

What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.

But with my last film, Spider it was agony. The money was always disappearing, nobody got paid, it was very difficult - and it's very distracting from the process of making the movie, of course. So I think things have been getting harder and harder.

I don't think comedy is necessarily an attack. It's finding humour in life. I don't think if you're making a joke about something you're automatically demeaning it.

There are growing concerns that oil companies are making too much in profits at the expense of consumers.

They have involved co-operation between the Iraqi intelligence and al-Qaeda operatives on training and combined operations regarding bomb making and chemical and biological weapons.

Everybody gets to a stage when it's time to move on. I was bored, and the band wasn't going anywhere, so I left. I did a couple of shows on Broadway and some other things. I was busy. I just wasn't making records.