Top 1200 Make Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

There are days when you make runs, and there will be a dry spell. Like in business, every year you don't make profits.

I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.

I thought if I could make people laugh about how awkward I am, it'd make me less awkward. But you also realise how fun it is to make people laugh.

I'm not here to impose Sharia law, and I'm not here to have a message about disability being inspirational - I'm here to make people laugh. But when I can layer things and make people not only laugh but question, make people not only laugh but be offended... I have to do that.

It's okay to make mistakes, as long as you don't make them again.

... woman is frequently praised as the more "creative" sex. She does not need to make poems, it is argued; she has no drive to make poems, because she is privileged to make babies. A pregnancy is as fulfilling as, say, Yeats' Sailing to Byzantium.... To call a child a poem may be a pretty metaphor, but it is a slur on the labor of art.

I'm just kind of trying to make the best stuff I can make.

My ultimate goal is to make people laugh and make them think, which isn't always an easy task.

Art is where we make a stand. If we don't make it there, freedom of expression is lost for everyone - for artists, for journalists, and for everyday people.

I think if you make a show where you try to make a character look good, not only is it kind of weird, but it's sociopathic.

There's not a lot to hide behind when you make the sort of music we make.

As an anchor, I want to make sure we're exploring all angles on a story. The viewer can make up their own mind.

My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

I like to make pictures about people who make a difference.

It is difficult to make movies on your own terms and also to make a film and convince somebody to have faith in it.

Motivation has to come from within. I make up my mind to shoot for the moon. Even if I don't make it, I'll be among the stars.

I like to make sure I get enough rest, so I don't make it a priority to go out late night.

I don't think people that make history set out to make it.

If you are someone like Jeff Koons, and you have to work out how to make a big chrome heart or something, then there are lots of people and a big production involved. The money is more natural somehow. For me, I am just on my own in the studio, trying to make things work. One thing is sure: it doesn't make painting any easier.

Bad times make good people, as mountainous pressures make diamonds or as fire tempers steel.

Make sure with the time that you have, you really make an impact on people.

I'm in the government to make sure that if there's an opportunity to make peace, it won't be missed.

I make it a point to make a new song every day.

I frankly don't make much of a living, but I make a hell of a life.

Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.

When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

In many cases, you're forced to make deals that are not the deal you'd make.

We're always trying to make advancements in the arts and technology, so it's somewhat inevitable that we're going to make holograms of people.

If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.

I look at like this: Any player I guard, long twos or shots like that, if they make them I still think that's good defense. You can't make those shots at a high percentage the whole game. It's just hard to make long two-pointers, step-backs, fadeaways, off-the-dribble crossovers.

I'd rather make one righteous dollar on my level Than make a million dollars spittin' rhymes for the devil.

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30s film or a movie of David's Lynch or some other director I love that could also make money, because that would say to the corporation, "Yes, you can make money and still do art." But it's tricky.

Just tell 'em you're gonna soak the fat boys and forget the rest of the tax stuff...Willie, make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they'll love it and come back for more, but, for heaven's sakes, don't try to improve their minds.

Everything changes when you make a decision to be one of the courageous ones, someone who chooses to make a life, rather than a living.

Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.

I literally view wrestling as the time when I was playing with action figures. You can make anything out of it. You can make it be fun.

'Who Do You Love' was kinda cool to make. I just made the beat; I was self-determined to make beats at the time.

It is always much easier, I have discovered, to make people cry or gasp than to make them think.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

It's always fun to make people laugh, and then make them afraid or cry at the same time.

I try to craft a menu that is very welcoming. I like to make vegetables and seafood, and I love to make pasta.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.

I've realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.

What is a hit? Who can tell? Who decides what a hit sounds like? I needed to remind myself that a hit is whatever people decide is a hit. I don't make hits; I make music. People make hits.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Don't make music to make money, because that's not why you should be doing it. Have fun, be creative, and embrace the past.

In the middle of the world, make one positive step. In the center of chaos, make one definitive act. Just write.

Stephen Miller is from Santa Monica. He was educated I believe at Duke. He has worked for Jeff Sessions. He's in his thirties and he's brilliant. He is literally brilliant. He is one of the - if not the - best spokesmen that the Donald Trump administration can roll out to make the case for whatever policy positions they're trying to advance. He can make the case ideologically. He can make the case in common sense.

I used to try and make up visually for what I couldn't play as a musician. I used to get into very incredible visual things where, in order just to make one chord more lethal, I'd make it a really lethal looking thing, whereas really it's just going to be picked normally.

When I make a representation of something, this, too, is an analogy to what exists; I make an effort to get a grip on the thing by depicting it.

You can make jeans and a t-shirt super stylish. It's what you make of it, you know?

We can't make China a friend, but we can behave to make them an enemy.

An agent won't help you get drafted higher, won't make you win more games, and won't make you faster or stronger.

'Make in India' is great, but 'Make It Happen in India' is even greater. Make It Happen in India is more than manufacturing. It's about training, about education, about societal development and automation and engineering.

We each need to make peace with our own memories. We have all done things that make us flinch.