Making Quotes - page 5

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world. (John Thomas Sladek)
Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars. View quote
Eisaku Sato
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work. View quote
Alan Bullock
I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments. View quote
Loretta Young
I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living. View quote
Robert Henri
We treat sex so casually and use it for everything but what it is-which is ultimately making another human being with thoughts and feelings and rights. View quote
Lisa Kudrow
The two important things that I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision. View quote
Robyn Davidson
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making. View quote
José Martí
I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that. View quote
Halle Berry
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. View quote
Charles Mingus
It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making. (Cory Doctorow)
...all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. View quote
William Henry Harrison
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I see myself more as an ambassador of the game. And I hope to bring chess to a higher level in the United States. Making bigger tournaments, more interesting events. Making it a respectable profession for young people to be able to pursue in the future. View quote
Maurice Ashley
Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection. View quote
Beatrice Arthur
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. View quote
Paul Hawken
Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It's always sexy, and it's always with the same result: making women look fantastic. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
I have ways of making money that you know nothing of. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. View quote
Virchand Gandhi
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. View quote
Steve Martin
Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman. It's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town. (Steve Martin)
The more I learnt about this cheeky – almost rebellious – company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money. View quote
Jonathan Ive
You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up. View quote
Daniel Day-Lewis
I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control. View quote
Bruce Dickinson
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. View quote
Ambrose Bierce