Making Quotes - page 7

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. (Edward de Bono)
The universe is a machine for the making of Gods. View quote
Henri Bergson
I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good. View quote
Keanu Reeves
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand. View quote
Rose Wilder Lane
To sum up 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride. View quote
H. L. Mencken
I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time. View quote
John Cale
Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which especially we acquire readiness in making plans for buildings in their grounds, and rightly apply the square, the level, and the plummet. By means of optics the light in buildings can be drawn from fixed quarters of the sky. Difficult questions involving symmetry are solved by means of geometrical theories and methods. View quote
Vitruvius
When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody is making them do it? No, these are simply evil people who want to kill. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. View quote
Martin Heidegger
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice. (Kurt Vonnegut)
One can only forget about time by making use of it. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism. View quote
Wim Wenders
There are times when you come across somebody that's really impressive, someone that's got a proper living and really does make a difference to people's lives. Then I do feel a bit of a wanker, admitting I'm an actress. That's hard to say to someone who may be making a difference. But I don't know how I could change things. View quote
Michelle Gomez
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. View quote
Malcolm Muggeridge
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. View quote
Charles Simic
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language. View quote
Mark Twain
Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time; he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking were making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really. View quote
Jack Osbourne
The young watch television twenty-four hours a day, they don't read and they rarely listen. This incessant bombardment of images has developed a hypertrophied eye condition that's turning them into a race of mutants. They should pass a law for a total reeducation of the young, making children visit the Galleria Borgese on a daily basis. View quote
Federico Fellini
I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place. View quote
Richard Stallman
Look, we're all the same a man is a fourteen-room house --in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes, and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up. (Arthur Miller)
I'm not really interested in making money. View quote
Steven Spielberg
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. View quote
Max Planck
When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks. View quote
Albert Einstein
I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them – or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right. View quote
Tony Blair