Quotes about making
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“Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Love, Women, Sleep

“Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.”

Jasper Fforde book The Big Over Easy

Source: The Big Over Easy

World, Game, Sister, Time

“I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Way, Understanding

“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Love, Hate, Art, Thinking

“Since desire always goes towards that which is our direct opposite, it forces us to love that which will make us suffer.”

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

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

Love, Suffering

“The sky was incredibly far away, and beautiful enough to make a person wonder why our hearts are never so free.”

Banana Yoshimoto book The Lake

Source: The Lake

Beauty, Heart, Personality

“I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it.”

Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist

Feeling, Time

“Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)”

Dave Eggers (1970) memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher

Love

“Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.”

Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence

Source: The Age of Innocence

Women

“I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy.”

Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) American poet

People, Feeling

“Did you think I was sitting on my hands?” “I thought you might be injured.” He looked at me. “We’ve met, you and I?” I deliberately took a big step back. “What?” he growled. “I’m making room for your ego.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Shifts

Thinking

“The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself.

No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it”

Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe, (1998), Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan (Chapter 4)

War, Fear, Knowledge

“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”

Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) American writer

As quoted in The Volta Review (1934), p. 574 http://books.google.de/books?id=qWE4AQAAIAAJ&q=hate, Clifton Fadiman: The American Treasury 1455-1955 (New York 1955) p. 997 http://books.google.de/books?id=PEQ4AAAAIAAJ&q=really+make+them and Hugh Rawson, Margaret Miner: The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations (2006) p. 431 #5 http://books.google.de/books?id=whg05Z4Nwo0C&pg=PA431&dq=mehitabel from archy and mehitabel (1927)

Love, Hate, People, Thinking

“Fear separates--makes us feel alone--disconnected--while love--love does just the opposite--it unites. {shadowland}”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Love, Fear, Feeling

“We were each other's rock. But did it make us each other's destiny?”

Rachel Hawthorne (1950) American author

Source: Full Moon

“When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.”

Gail Carson Levine (1947) American writer

Source: Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly

Feeling

“Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

Shoe, Mathematics, Learning, Housing

“Advice! Nobody tells us how to be men. We just are." "That is probably why you make such a bad job of it.- Perrin and Egwene”

Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World

Source: The Eye of the World

Men

“I'm not sure there are enough white roses in the world to make me forget Richard." I held up my hand before she could interrupt. "But I'm not sure there are enough cozy afternoons in all eternity to make me forget Jean-Claude.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Burnt Offerings

Source: Burnt Offerings

World, Forgetting

“I would rather insult you than lose you, he said, and before any of them could make a move to stop him, he cast both items into the fire.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make”

Stephen R. Covey book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

People

“They say a hundred-and-thirty-pound woman has no chance against an athletic two-hundred-pound man. That's a lie. You just have to make the decision to hurt him and then do it.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

Lie, Decision, Chance, Hurt

“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Life, Future, Attitude, Peaceful

“An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift”

Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist

“The truth will make you odd.”

Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer

Truth

“Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.”

Danielle Steel book Legacy

Source: Legacy

Love, People, Feeling, Sense

“What makes Iago evil? Some people ask. I never ask.”

Joan Didion book Play It as It Lays

Source: Play It as It Lays

People, Evil

“You have to be willing to spend time making things for no known reason.”

Lynda Barry (1956) Cartoonist

Source: Picture This: The Near-sighted Monkey Book

Time

“Sometimes life will make you give up what you love most.”

Danielle Steel book The Gift

Variant: She didn't want to let go of him, or the baby, but sometimes life made you give up what you loved most.
Source: The Gift

Love, Life

“If I were to draw on a paper what gym does for me, I would make one dot and then I would erase it.”

Elizabeth Berg (1948) American novelist

Source: Joy School

Drawing

“She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy.

I do have a knack for finding great women.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Women, Happiness, Way

“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)

Beauty

“That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on”

Charles Frazier book Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

Way

“I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

Hell

“The two most important phrases in the human language are "If only" and "Maybe someday". Our past mistakes and our unrequited longings. The things we regret and the things we yearn for. That's what makes us who we are.”

Will Ferguson (1964) Canadian writer, especially humor about Canada

Source: Happiness

Past

“When the time comes to leave, just walk away quietly and don't make any fuss.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

Cut It Out (2004)
Source: Wall and Piece

Time

“Fine. Let’s begin with something even you can’t screw up.” – Death
“Way to build up my crappy confidence there. You should volunteer for the suicide hotline.” – Nick
“What makes you think I don’t?” – Death”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

Death, Way, Confidence, Thinking

“sometimes it's the fight that makes a thing worth having”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: Finding Noel

Fight

“This is a great idea,” said Trey. “You kids should totaly go see that play. Make a whole day of it. Grab some dinner and hang out at the library or whatever it is you do for fun.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Idea

“Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

“Listen, my body is attracted to your body but when you speak it makes my brain angry.”

Mindy Kaling (1979) actress, writer, comedian

“He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: The Piper's Son

“To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) French writer

Way

“I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Alex Wheatley, Chapter 25, p. 208
Source: 2009, Safe Haven (2010)

Life, Way, Imagination

“You can't make people listen to you. People only hear what they want to hear.”

Kieran Scott (1974) American writer

People

“When you're in a competitive environment, always give out the impression that you don't care. It makes people want you more. If you act desperate, it's over. I think a passive attitude is helpful. It comes naturally because I'm lazy.”

Diablo Cody (1978) Screenwriter and author

People, Nature, Thinking, Help

“Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Smile, Feeling

“If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

“I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

Life, Dreams, Mountain, Change

“Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Rise of the Evening Star

“Wander a whole summer if you can… time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

Source: 1900s, Our National Parks (1901), chapter 1: The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West 
Context: Wander here a whole summer, if you can. Thousands of God's wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were a sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted. If you are business-tangled, and so burdened by duty that only weeks can be got out of the heavy-laden year … give a month at least to this precious reserve. The time will not be taken from the sum of your life. Instead of shortening, it will indefinitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal. Nevermore will time seem short or long, and cares will never again fall heavily on you, but gently and kindly as gifts from heaven.

Life, Time, Summer