Quotes of Making - somelinesforyou

“ We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. ”

- Minoru Yamasaki

“ Why aren't we making any progress towards a crime-free society? We're not making progress because we are too damn busy making excuses. ”

- Unknown

“ Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money. ”

- John Wicker

“ We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses. ”

- H. V. Adolt

“ When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world. ”

- Andrew Granatelli

“ Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread. ”

- Pablo Neruda

“ Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. ”

- Dean Koontz

“ We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. ”

- Charles Mingus

“ Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. ”

- Isaac Newton

“ If you are not making the progress you would like, and are capable of making, it Is simply because your goals are not clearly defined. ”

- Paul Meyer

“ Without a visual identity, we have no community, no support network, no movement. Making ourselves visible is a political act, making ourselves visible is a continual process. ”

- Joan E. Biren

“ Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. ”

- Howard W. Newton

“ A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. ”

- William Shenstone

“ As simple as it sounds, we all must try to be the best person we can: by making the best choices, by making the most of the talents we've been given. ”

- Mary Lou Retton

“ But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ You know, it's funny… when you're making money, people don't think you're playing jazz. Now when you're not making money, people think that you're a good jazz musician. ”

- Pete Fountain

“ The only thing stupider than making a painting was making a representational painting, and of all the genres the most dead and seemingly bankrupt was portraiture. ”

- Chuck Close

“ It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ To argue over who is the more noble is nothing more than to dispute whether dirt is better for making bricks or for making mortar. ”

- St. Teresa of Avila

“ The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few. ”

- Philip Knight

“ Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ Making a life comes before making a living. ”

- Unknown

“ The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Making capitalism out of socialism is like making eggs out of an omelet. ”

- Vadim Bakatin

“ Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. ”

- Howard W. Newton

“ I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. ”

- Petronius Arbiter

“ I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them. ”

- Peter Cushing

“ Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that?s worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question "What do you do?". ”

- Robert Fulghum

“ I'm not satisfied. I'm happy with the opportunities that have been presented to me, but it's a shame that a lot of Latin actors out there are not being recognized for the work that they do. If Selma wasn't making WILD WILD WEST, if Jennifer wasn't making OUT OF SIGHT, if I wasn't making THE ROAD TO EL DORADO, they wouldn't really call it an explosion… ”

- Rosie Perez
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