Quotes about making
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“My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.”

Joan D. Vinge The Snow Queen

Source: The Snow Queen

Love, Hate, Universe, Chance

“Were you ever actually going to leave New York, or were you just saying that to get her to finally make a move?”
“Clary,” said Luke, “I am shocked that you would suggest such a thing.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Life, Death, Men, Sleep

“Oh, I wouldn't say Love always makes you happy. Sometimes it makes you incredibly sad.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Love, Happiness, Sadness

“If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it.”

George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss

Stupidity, Nature, Knowledge

“So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.”

Sherwood Smith (1951) American fantasy and science fiction writer

Source: Court Duel

Love, Laughter

“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law of gravity just wears out and lets go and I drift into space?” Does that ever make you anxious?”

Elaine May (1932) American screenwriter, film director, actress, and comedian

Lie, Law, Thinking, Night

“Guys always think tears are a sign of weakness. They’re a sign of FRUSTRATION. She’s only crying so she won’t cut your throat in your sleep. So make nice and be grateful.”

Donna Barr (1952) comic book author and cartoonist

Guy, Thinking, Tear, Sleep

“Though, if you think about it, hostile, dethroned pseudodeities probably make disagreeable neighbors. You'll have to figure out something to do with him.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Hostility, Thinking

“Can we just call them storm spirits?” Leo asked. “Venti makes them sound like evil espresso drinks.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Drink, Evil

“Among the problems with shame was that it in fact did not make you shorter or quieter or less visible. You just felt like you were.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Enshrined

Problem

“Make more than dust.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Two Boys Kissing

“That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Secret

“A disciple… can never imitate his guide's steps. You have your own way of living your life, of dealing with problems, and of winning. Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.”

Paulo Coelho book The Pilgrimage

Source: The Pilgrimage

Life, Way, Problem, Learning

“There's no shame in trying to make stuff work, is how I see it. It's better than just accepting the broken.”

Sarah Dessen (1970) American writer

Source: Saint Anything

“There are those who make things happen, there are those who watch things happen and there are those who say 'what happened?”

Robert T. Kiyosaki (1947) American finance author , investor

“Books, I found, had the power to make time
stand still, retreat or fly into the future.”

Jim Bishop (1907–1987) American journalist and author

Books, Time, Future, Flying

“Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

Youth, Music

“You don't know me, but I know about you… I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.”

Lurlene McDaniel (1944) American writer

Source: Sixteen and Dying

Hurt

“Money doesn't make us anyway it just unmasks us.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

Money

“The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?”

Angela Carter book Nights at the Circus

Source: Nights at the Circus

“The best relationships were the ones where both sides went out of their way to make sure the other wasn't disappointed.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

Disappointment, Way

“If there is God, I thought… Please some day let me make love to this girl while she wears that dress." "Oh…" "Tatiasha… isn't it nice to know there is a God?”

Paullina Simons book The Bronze Horseman

Source: The Bronze Horseman

Love, God, Making love, Girl

“Renee was beautiful, but she was my friend now. On the other hand, Annette was my friend, but now she was beautiful. makes about as much sense as anything ever does with girls”

Jordan Sonnenblick (1969) American writer

Source: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Beauty, Girl, Sense

“The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Way, Idea

“I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Dance

“Tell me a story then… keep me occupied."
"A story?… What makes you think I can tell a story?"
"Insight," said the king, "Go on.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

Thinking

“I’m not the farmer I claimed to be, but I hope I can make you fall in love with me again, this time as a prince, one day at a time. We’ve had a terrible start—it doesn’t mean we can’t have a better ending.”

Mary E. Pearson (1955) young-adult fiction writer

Source: The Heart of Betrayal

Love, Hope, Time

“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

"My Neighbor's Son"
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)

Feeling

“These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

People, Way, Reading

“Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Light, love

“Life is hard already. Why make it harder?”

Sara Shepard book Perfect

Source: Perfect

Life

“Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures

Thinking

“It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.”

Harvey Pekar (1939–2010) writer

People, Feeling, Affliction

“You make me want to suck a bruise on you just to kiss it better.
--Luc to Jane”

Rachel Gibson (1961) American writer

Source: See Jane Score

Kiss

“To marry a girl just to make her a widow,” said Gabriel Lightwood. “Many would say that was not a kindness.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Princess

Girl

“Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

Motivation

“Say make me, remake me. You are free to do it and I am free to let you because look, look. Look where your hands are. Now.”

Toni Morrison book Jazz

Source: Jazz

“… hate suits him better than forgiveness. Immersed in hate, he doesn't have to do anything; he can be paralyzed, and the rigidty of hatred makes a kind of shelter for him.”

John Updike book Rabbit, Run

Source: Rabbit, Run

Hate, Forgiveness

“Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Life, Courage, Wine

“Tell me, is he always really rude, or does he save that for mundanes?"
"Oh, he's rude to everyone," said Isabelle airily. "It's what makes him so damn sexy. That and he's killed more demons than anyone else his age.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Age

“It's easier to start over than to work to make something last.”

Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author

Source: Thrill Ride

“We came in the wind of the carnival. A wind of change, or promises. The merry wind, the magical wind, making March hares of everyone, tumbling blossoms and coat-tails and hats; rushing towards summer in a frenzy of exuberance.”

Joanne Harris book The Lollipop Shoes

Source: The Lollipop Shoes

Change, Summer

“For a minute there it was really good. It was really, really good. Wasn't it good? Maybe really, really good things aren't meant to last for too long; maybe that's what makes them all the more sweet, the temporariness of them.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

“Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.”

Katharine Weber (1955) American novelist

Source: The Music Lesson

Life, Loss, Parting

“Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

Love, Stupidity, Selfishness

“She makes use of the soft of the bread for a napkin. She falls asleep at times with shoes on, on unmade beds. When a little money comes in, June buys delicacies, strawberries in the winter, caviar and bath salts.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Money, Shoe, Winter, Time

“Couldn't Lissa have healed that black eye away?"
"Its a badge of honor. Makes me seem manly.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

“Courage is a fickle creature. Just as you need it, it often makes excuses and rushes out of the room.”

Janette Rallison (1966) American writer

Source: My Fair Godmother

Courage

“Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.”

Anne Bishop (1955) American fiction writer

Source: Daughter of the Blood

Pain

“She wondered if there were any ugly vampires, or maybe any fat ones.
Maybe they didn't make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn't want to live forever.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

People

“We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”

Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader

“Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.”

Julian Barnes book Flaubert's Parrot

Source: Flaubert's Parrot

Star, Appearance

“It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence (1920), Ch. 8

Thinking

“If a guy truly likes you, but for personal reasons he needs to take things slow, he will let you know that immediately. He won’t keep you guessing,
because he’ll want to make sure you don’t get frustrated and go away.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Guy, Personality

“People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel… but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.”

Eudora Welty (1909–2001) American author

Pain, People, Hurt

“Ve haf vays of making you gif us your DNA sample.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bites

“That was the thing about best friends. Like sisters and mothers, they could piss you off and make you cry and break your heart, but in the end, when the chips were down, they were there, making you laugh even in your darkest hours.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Firefly Lane

Sister, Heart, Cry, Friendship

“Nobody quite knew what to make of the moon any more.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

“Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.”

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer

Happiness, Children

“What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah, I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.”

Cecelia Ahern book Thanks for the Memories

Source: Thanks for the Memories

Love, People

“Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.”

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

Loneliness

“If time were a bolt of cloth,” said Om, “I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.”

Rohinton Mistry A Fine Balance

Source: A Fine Balance

Time, Parting, Clothes, Night

“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”

George Berkeley (1685–1753) Anglo-Irish philosopher

Tree

“I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

Love

“So now I'm thinking about it. I'm imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, "I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls.”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

Guy, Imagination, Girl, Thinking

“Yeah, you're sitting in a tree because you're. That's easy to see. I can't believe this is, destroyer of despots, warrior hottie, leader of the flock! All you need now to make yourself more pathetic is a pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream!”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Angel

Tree

“My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?”

Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Source: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Faith, Religion, Feeling, Hell

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.”

William Faulkner book As I Lay Dying

Source: As I Lay Dying (1930)

People, World

“I went out with a guy who once told me I didn’t need to drink to make myself more fun to be around. I told him, I’m drinking so that you’re more fun to be around.”

Chelsea Handler book Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

Source: Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

Guy, Drink

“Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.”

Orson Scott Card book Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay.”

Sarah Dessen book Dreamland

Source: Dreamland (2000)

Love, Time, Hurt

“If life gives you limes make margaritas.”

Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman

Life

“Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.”

James Rollins (1961) American writer

History, Question, Science

“Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the building on fire in the first place.”

Richelle Mead book Frostbite

Source: Frostbite

“Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again.

'Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,' he agrees.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Love, Life, Hunger, Hell

“Change can be good. It just depends on what we make of it.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Source: Summer in the City

Change, Dependency

“Being with Mary was different because… he wasn't the only one who wanted to make love to her.
The beast wanted her, too.
The beast wanted out so it could take her.”

Jessica Bird book Lover Eternal

Source: Lover Eternal

Love, Making love

“How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.
I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.
Nobody would know it.
It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

People, World, Art, History

“Make them care, Mattie,' she said softly. 'And don't you ever be sorry.'
-Emily Wilcox”

Jennifer Donnelly A Northern Light

Source: A Northern Light

“Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.”

George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah

The She-Ancient, in Pt. V
Source: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Context: Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul. But we who are older use neither glass mirrors nor works of art. We have a direct sense of life. When you gain that you will put aside your mirrors and statues, your toys and your dolls.

Dreams, Art, Soul

“Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.”

Mildred D. Taylor book Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Source: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Color, Parent, Baby

“I walked away exhilarated by my success, because there's nothing like making a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

Variant: There's nothing like the feeling of knowing that you've made a difference in someone's life, even if that difference is a lifetime of nightmares and a fortune in therapy bills.
Source: The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

Life, Success

“Standing in a garage no more makes you a car than standing in a church makes you a Christian.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Cars

“Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Books

“We make our purpose.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

Source: The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

“The choices we make, make us.”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Source: Andy Warhol in His Own Words

People, Change

“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life - where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Variant: All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.
Source: It Chooses You

Life, People

“Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference?”

Mary E. Pearson book The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox