Making Quotes - page 4

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets. View quote
Klaus Kinski
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible. View quote
Hannah Arendt
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical. View quote
Alan Perlis
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. View quote
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. (Barack Obama)
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. View quote
Meister Eckhart
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. View quote
Walt Whitman
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. View quote
Isaac Newton
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing. View quote
Isaac Newton
I am happy making the films I make and I would like the West to be impressed with what we do from India. View quote
Shahrukh Khan
That's the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you. View quote
Abel Ferrara
As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back. View quote
Maurice Gibb
I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
If you're going to spend two or three years of your life working on something, you've got to be making the kind of movie that discusses and influences the culture and is engaged in the world you're living in. (Scott Rudin)
If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. View quote
William H. McRaven
There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States. View quote
Walter Russell Mead
Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. View quote
Herbie Hancock
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution. View quote
Daniel Dennett