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Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Kiss of a Demon King
“Bad taste makes more millionaires than good taste.”
Charles Bukowski book Hollywood
Source: Hollywood
“Dang! Snake people know how to make bundt cake.”
Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“Reformed rakes often make the best husbands.”
Judith McNaught (1944) American writer
Source: Something Wonderful
Glenn Beck book An Inconvenient Book
The Income Gap: The Rich Get Richer, Good for Them
An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems
2007-11-20
Threshold Editions
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Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
Lewis Black (1948) American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social critic and actor
Nothing’s Sacred (2005)
Context: The only thing dumber than a Democrat or a Republican is when those pricks work together. You see, in our two-party system, the Democrats are the party of no ideas and the Republicans are the party of bad ideas. It usually goes something like this. A Republican will stand up in Congress and say, "I've got a really bad idea." And a Democrat will immediately jump to his feet and declare, "And I can make it shittier."
“Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.”
Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer
“If you never take a risk, you will never
know what changes you need to make.”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
“I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers.”
Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer
Source: Away Laughing on a Fast Camel
“I'm old enough to make you look like an embryo. [Thorn]”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Bad Moon Rising
“… Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make.”
Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books
Source: Artemis Fowl Boxed Set, Bks 1-5
“I used to have a drug problem, now I make enough money.”
David Lee Roth (1954) Rock vocalist; lead singer with Van Halen
Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States
Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2001)
Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Context: Walking has been one of the constellations in the starry sky of human culture, a constellation whose three stars are the body, the imagination, and the wide-open world, and though all three exist independently, it is the lines drawn between them—drawn by the act of walking for cultural purposes—that makes them a constellation. Constellations are not natural phenomena but cultural impositions; the lines drawn between stars are like paths worn by the imagination of those who have gone before. This constellation called walking has a history, the history trod out by all those poets and philosophers and insurrectionaries, by jaywalkers, streetwalkers, pilgrims, tourists, hikers, mountaineers, but whether it has a future depends on whether those connecting paths are traveled still.
Walter Moers The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
Source: The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
Louis L'Amour book The Walking Drum
Source: The Walking Drum (1984), Ch. 25
“There is no past or future. Using tenses to divide time is like making chalk marks on water.”
Janet Frame (1924–2004) New Zealand author
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad.”
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
“Depression is boring, I think
and I would do better to make
some soup and light up the cave.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
“If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.”
Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…
As quoted in TIME (1984), also in Meditations for Parents Who Do Too Much (1993) by Jonathon Lazear and Wendy Lazear, p. 22
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.”
Boyd K. Packer (1924–2015) American Mormon leader
“and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.”
Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“Listen to them — children of the night. What music they make.”
Bram Stoker book Dracula
Dracula referring to the howling of the wolves to Jonathan Harker.
Dracula (1897)
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior
“The only mistake is not to risk making one.”
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
Source: Cure for the Common Life: Living in Your Sweet Spot
“Rich men have dreams. Poor men die to make them come true.”
Glen Cook book Water Sleeps
Source: Water Sleeps (1999), Chapter 87 (p. 314)
“If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?”
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) Russian-American novelist and philosopher
“By trying to understand everything, everything makes me dream”
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
“When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.”
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
Source: An Object of Beauty
“Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.”
Mary Elizabeth Braddon book Lady Audley's Secret
Source: Lady Audley's Secret
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding
“An individual chooses and makes himself.”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
“Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff?”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963)
Context: I had also hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth concerning time in relation to the struggle for freedom. I have just received a letter from a white brother in Texas. He writes: "All Christians know that the colored people will receive equal rights eventually, but it is possible that you are in too great a religious hurry. It has taken Christianity almost two thousand years to accomplish what it has. The teachings of Christ take time to come to earth." Such an attitude stems from a tragic misconception of time, from the strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right. Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity.
“Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.”
Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”
Lou Holtz (1937) American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer
“If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.”
Gregory David Roberts (1952) Australian writer and bank robber
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein
“Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.”
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English novelist and poet
Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American poet
"A Creed To Mr. David Lubin", stanza 1, LINCOLN & Other Poems (1901), page 25.
Context: There is a destiny that makes us brothers:
None goes his way alone:
All that we send into the lives of others
Comes back onto our own.
I care not what his temples or his creeds,
One thing holds firm and fast
That into his fateful heap of days and deeds
The soul of man is cast.