Top 299 Make Up Quotes

I want there to be hints of narrative everywhere in the image so that people can make up their own stories about them. But I don’t want to have my own narrative and force it on to them.
Cindy Sherman
No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up for increases in the cost-of-living, nor should anyone ordinarily object to such adjustments.
Charles E. Wilson
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie
Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
Lillie Langtry
Head Start is especially important to Latino children. Latino children make up more than one-third, 34 percent, of all those eligible for the program.
Joe Baca
Of course I have the license to make up things, but I think a lot of what’s written about China is misleading, and most Americans don’t know much about China, in-depth, even though China is such a crucial business partner, rival, whatever.
Anchee Min
Polyester, one of the most common fibers, is a plastic derived from crude oil. The long fibers that make up polyester thread are woven together to make fabric. Extracting the oil and melting the plastic require energy.
Tatiana Schlossberg
I recently finished a job, an HBO movie ‘Getting On,’ a very dark comedy. It comes from a British series of the same name. In this role I have no hair, no make up and no nails. I play a very small role; she is not over the top and sassy.
Niecy Nash
No one likes getting hit. It’s a normal thing… I used to make up excuses when the coach would ask me to get in the ring. I’d say I forgot my mouthpiece, or I’d say I had a headache or something.
Mandy Bujold
I’m really good at improvising on stage, so if I’d forget a step, I’ll just make up something. And the rest of the dancers would be like… what is she doing!? It always looked like they have forgotten the step, so I got away with it!
Sanya Malhotra
A lot of people say video games can be stifling. Older people say, ‘We had to go outside, and we had to make up stories!’ For me, video games broadened my horizons. Playing ‘Golden Axe,’ I was those characters. I imagined myself being in that world, so honestly, it was a really good thing.
Kumail Nanjiani
The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
John Keats
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
Alexander Smith
African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.
Xavier Becerra
I wouldn’t say pop stars hit on me – that’s just stuff the papers make up.
Cat Deeley
In an economy where women now make up half the work force, we’re going to have to address the treatment of pregnant employees more systemically. The passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act would better protect against the discrimination pregnant job seekers face.
Alissa Quart
Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine.

Create your own method. Don’t depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.
Constantin Stanislavski
When I work with other people, I try to make up for their shortcomings with my strengths, and I let others make up for my flaws with their strengths. I try to co-operate with people around me when working in a group. I like to enhance team spirit on set. I try to get everyone involved in the action.
Song Joong-ki
A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
Bram Stoker
Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don’t take votes. We just don’t vote on quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, why the sky is blue, or anything else.
Alan Stern
I continue to write essays about art. The visual is always part of my work, and it gives me immense pleasure to make up the words of art and create them verbally rather than build them.
Siri Hustvedt
‘Y’ is about the weakest letter of all. ‘Y’ can’t make up its mind if it’s a vowel or a consonant, can it?
David Mitchell
I look back now, and most of the drama in my life was self-inflicted. I don’t need to make up so much drama now.
Boy George
The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.
Michael Shermer
Our children think our world will end. It’s a tragic thing. Adults don’t think that. They don’t see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
It’s not okay to just make up false things about someone, especially in their personal life. Professionally, fine! Scrutinize me all you want. I know that I can’t please everyone, but personally, let’s just leave it alone. It’s going too far.
Keri Hilson
My mum went above and beyond to make up for the fact I didn’t have two parents. I was very lucky.
Stacey Dooley
Most people don’t realize it, because they’re invisible, but microbes make up about a half of the Earth’s biomass, whereas all animals only make up about one one-thousandth of all the biomass.
Craig Venter
The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
Rachel Maddow
Citizens do not just make up and preserve a Republic; they are its ultimate stakeholders and in fact pillars.
Ram Nath Kovind
No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.
Francis Marion Crawford
I’m a dancer and when I walk off stage there isn’t a dry spot on me. This means my hair has to be put up again between shows. I have to make up and dress all over again.
Cyd Charisse
On the television planet, where men make up the tribe, the law of the caveman rules. So, for a woman coming from another world, without experience or cunning, to succeed gradually in gaining control over what is to be taped, what goes out over the air, what is said without censorship, is an epic feat.
Cristina Saralegui
Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.
David Soul
Hospitals feel like they need to increase prices to make up for treating patients that don’t pay their bills or that are not having insurance supporting them.
Mikhail Varshavski
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s – I am 39 – lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks – thinner, drier skin.
Thandie Newton
People make up their mind on whether you’re a good player over seven games at a World Cup. You’re great if you score goals and bad if you don’t. I will always believe in myself, and those who doubt me will always continue to do so.
Gonzalo Higuain
People just wanna talk. They wanna create negative things about you and your life and make up things. You can’t let them affect you!
Blake Lively
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.
Sibel Kekilli
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Saul Bellow
We are trying to make up these other elements by gaining cost efficiencies through our reengineering process and through overt fund-raising activities to better support graduate education.
Charles Vest
As the Republicans run to the crazy Tea Party right, they leave behind the huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent Americans that make up the majority of voters. The ones that used to consider themselves now-extinct moderate Republicans. They’re up for grabs. And the Democrats have to grab them!
Jennifer Granholm
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
E. O. Wilson
I think as a 20-year-old you expect life to always be easy. You get given a good hand and the chance to race in Formula One. You think the driver can make the difference, can make up for everything else within the team. But that is not the case. You are racing in such a competitive sport so that doesn’t happen.
Jenson Button
The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life – it didn’t make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.
Wellington Mara
Interceptions are gonna happen. You can’t worry about that. ‘I made a mistake? OK, I have to make up for it.’ That’s my attitude about it. If I worry about it, I’ve got no chance.
Andy Dalton
Cuisine Nouvelle was just a concept, and one which, cru

Cuisine Nouvelle was just a concept, and one which, crucially, the English managed to get wrong. I mean, if you run a restaurant, you’ve got to feed people, not make pretty little pictures on plates to make up for your lack of ability.
Marco Pierre White
Writers tend to write stories as a kind of holiday between novels, or as preliminary steps towards a novel. Stories just don’t often make up a writer’s main body of work, and that’s not because they don’t see the market for it.
James Lasdun
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
Yoko Ono
I love Armani Face Fabric, Make Up For Ever HD, Rodial Skin Tint and Charlotte Tilbury.
Kylie Jenner
I like to make up my own lines and dress myself and act like myself and no other characters.
Patti Harrison
You’d go back to school and your friends would say, ‘What you get for Christmas?’ You got to make up a lie. ‘I got this, this and this.’ It’s all part of growing up and everyone has a different story. It made me who I am today.
DeMarcus Cousins