Quotes about making
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“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.”

Roger A. Caras (1928–2001) American photographer

“It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

Women, Age, World, Learning

“No, none of us seem so very real.

We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other.

Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Tell-All

Source: Tell-All

Truth, Mountain, Support

“Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.”

Thomas Kinkade (1958–2012) American painter of popular realistic, bucolic, and idyllic subjects

People, Home

“No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake”

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

Life

“On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

“Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one… I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Context: Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity... If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

Her last taped interview, with Richard Meryman, published in LIFE magazine a few days before her death. (3 August 1962); quoted in Ms. magazine (August 1972)

“Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most?
That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost?
That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain?
That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?”

John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet

Pain, Nature, Suffering, Christ

“Vengeance burns, Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you.”

Michelle Paver book Oath Breaker

Source: Oath Breaker

Pain, Heart

“Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with… It can be confusing and weird and awkward, but sometimes it just makes you melt and forget everything that is going on.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Name of the Star

Kiss, Forgetting

“Oh, I'll enjoy myself. I want to make sure you enjoy yourself."
"Why?" I said.
"If you enjoy yourself, then there's a better chance you'll want to be with me again.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Hit List

Source: Hit List

Chance

“I would rather make my name then inherit it.”

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) novelist

“Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Thinking

“The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.”

Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy

Life, Way

“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

Though Keillor has been quoted on the internet and in print as having made this or a similar remark, such expressions have been made by others, and may have originated with Billy Sunday, who is quoted as having said "Going to church on Sunday does not make you a Christian any more than going into a garage makes you an automobile!" in Press, Radio, Television, Periodicals, Public Relations, and Advertising, As Seen through Institutes and Special Occasions of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism (1967) edited by John Eldridge Drewry.
Disputed
Variant: Going to church no more makes you a Christian than standing in a garage makes you a car.

Cars, Thinking

“Heaven on Earth is a choice you
must make, not a place you must find.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

Faith

“Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.”

George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism

Appearance

“Agent Jones held Sinjin’s face in his hands. “I’m going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals.”
“How right you are, strange delusional man,” Sinjin said.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

People, Animals

“Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally on our planet, serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana against the law is like saying that God made a mistake. Like on the seventh day God looked down, "There it is. My Creation, perfect and holy in all ways. Now I can rest. [Gives shocked expression] Oh my Me! I left fuckin' pot everywhere. I should never have smoked that joint on the third day. Hehe, that was the day I created the possum. Still gives me a chuckle. But if I leave pot everywhere, that's gonna give people the impression they're supposed to … use it. Now I have to create Republicans."”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

" … and God wept", I believe is the next part of that story.
Chicago '91 (1991)

God, People, Law, Way

“A drop of ink may make a million think.”

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

Thinking

“Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

Life, Decision

“Who will guard the guards? If we're the guards of society, then who will watch us and make sure that we're not dangerous?”

Dan Brown book Digital Fortress

Source: Digital Fortress

“I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Life, Thinking

“What an alliance, huh? A Dark-Hunter and a Spathi united to guard an Apollite. Who would have ever imagined? (Wulf)
Love makes strange bedfellows. (Acheron)
I thought that was politics. (Wulf)
It’s both. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Kiss of the Night

Love, Imagination

“The exceeding brightness of this early sun
Makes me conceive how dark I have become.”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Sun

“Forcing him to talk about feelings all the time will not only make you seem needy, it will eventually make him lose respect. And when he loses respect, he’ll pay even less attention to your feelings.”

Sherry Argov (1977) American writer

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Feeling, Time

“But the problem is to make the soul into a monster”

Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) French Decadent and Symbolist poet

Soul, Problem

“You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because he made you believe that you were the only one who could save him.”

Jodi Picoult book Picture Perfect

Source: Picture Perfect

Love, Smile

“Good, bad, and indifferent - It takes all sorts to make a world.”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

Variant: It takes all sorts to make a world.
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 4
Context: The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent — I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world.

World, Indifference

“People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

People

“How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?”

Trudi Canavan book The Magicians' Guild

Source: The Magicians' Guild

People, Thinking

“Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool.”

Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director

Fools

“It's what you choose to believe that makes you the person you are.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

Personality

“Someone told me much later that you always know the people who are going to make a difference in your life, from the very first time you set eyes on them, even if you do not like them at all. And I had noticed him, as he had me. God help us.”

Sarah Dunant book The Birth of Venus

Source: The Birth of Venus

Life, God, People, Time

“Oh, goodie! I get to make the redheaded goddess mad! (Simi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Madness

“The cemetery is an open space among the ruins covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonaïs

Preface
Source: Adonais (1821)

Love, Death, Thinking, Winter

“Every relationship is messed up. What makes it really perfect is if you still want to be there when things suck.”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Perfection

“I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.”

James Joyce Ulysses

Source: Ulysses

Fear

“For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.”

Orson Scott Card book Pathfinder

Source: Pathfinder

Love, Children, Feeling, Decision

“You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

Life, Memory, Time, Personality

“Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

Truth

“TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

Personality

“Hey, you've still got your endangered hymen. Which means you'll make it to closing credits - I'm s. o. l.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Poison Princess

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Life, Attitude

“There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.”

Roger Zelazny book This Immortal

Source: This Immortal

Dead

“Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Variant: Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Love, Marriage, Making love, Girl

“I guess what I'm trying to say is that you two make me believe that true love really exists. And that even the darkest hours can't take that away.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

Love

“… there's no such thing as an underwear elf. Even when it goes missing, it's somewhere in the room. So make sure you find it." -- DARK OF NIGHT by Suzanne Brockmann”

Suzanne Brockmann (1960) American writer

Source: Dark of Night

Night

“Someday, you will make an excellent guardian ba.”
“Thanks,” I muttered. “Can’t wait to be poultry forever.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Waiting

“Life is what you make of it. There's always fun and laughs right under your nose if you're willing to open your eyes to see it.”

Glenn Beck (1964) U.S. talk radio and television host

Life

“The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Life, Happiness, People, Passion

“Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

People, Sense, Success

“I make rude gestures at nuns”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Variant: I kick kittens. I made rude gestures at nuns.
Source: City of Ashes

“Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

Way

“We spend a lot of time thinking about the ways that prestige and resources and belonging to elite institutions make us better off. We don’t spend enough time thinking about the ways in which those kinds of material advantages limit our options.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

Way, Thinking, Time

“I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

People, Fear, Thinking

“People make their own reality, goddess. We hate and we love for reasons that are known only to us.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Styxx

Love, Hate, People, Reality

“…when the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable…”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

Source: An Object of Beauty

Imagination, Idea, Personality

“Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

World, Question, Time

“Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

Memory

“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“What an extraordinary achievement for a civilization: to have developed the one diet that reliably makes its people sick!”

Michael Pollan book Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Source: Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

People

“We make our own truths and lies…. Truths are often lies and lies truths…”

Bernhard Schlink (1944) German writer

Truth

“the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Source: Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage

Love, Women

“You can't make people love you but you can make them fear you”

Cecily von Ziegesar (1970) American writer

Love, People, Fear

“There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“We could've done this anywhere, but I wanted you to see me, to see this," he said, gesturing at the room. "I wanted you to know where I come from, what I am under the choices I make.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Ever After

“Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.”

Robert Fulghum (1937) American writer

Source: True Love

Love, Life

“If killing yourself is not an option anymore,
you have to sink into the darkness instead,
and make something out of it.”

Emma Forrest (1976) British journalist, novelist and screenwriter

Source: Your Voice in My Head

“The vamp in McMann’s stared at me. I guess he didn’t like the Goth look. Most of them don’t; somehow they think I’m making fun of them.
Which I totally am.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

Thinking

“What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Part Three, Ch. 11
Source: On the Road (1957)
Context: In 1942 I was the star in one of the filthiest dramas of all time. I was a seaman, and went to the Imperial Café on Scollay Square in Boston to drink; I drank sixty glasses of beer and retired to the toilet, where I wrapped myself around the toilet bowl and went to sleep. During the night at least a hundred seamen and assorted civilians came in and cast their sentient debouchements on me till I was unrecognizably caked. What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.

Men, World

“Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.”

Billie Jean King (1943) American tennis player

Life, Decision, Time

“I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way.
~Train Heartnet”

Kentaro Yabuki (1980) Japanese manga artist

Source: Black Cat, Volume 01

Life, Way, Training

“Kuh-laire, Is cam a fattening Girl Scout Cookie layered with peanut butter and a chocolate coating?
No.
Then dont make him a tagalong!”

Lisi Harrison (1970) Canadian writer

Source: Boys "R" Us

Girl, Scouting

“Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to- "
"SIMON!”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Clary held the phone away from her ear as he cracked up laughing. "That is so not funny!"
Simon and Clary, pg. 19
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Hope, Chance, Night

“You know,” he said, “this is why I love you so much.”
Her tone was heartbreakingly warm. “What do you mean?”
You don’t ask me to go inside because it’s cold. You just want to make it easier for me to be where I want to stand.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Avenged

Love

“I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Women, Girl, Thinking