The nicknames – people say they couldn’t understand it, but look, I have really enjoyed my time away from 3AW, and I have discovered one thing – that I am more than just a yelling fanatical football follower who makes up nicknames.
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
Veterans are a symbol of what makes our nation great, and we must never forget all they have done to ensure our freedom.
Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.
The fact that apartheid has been tied up with white supremacy, capitalist exploitation, and deliberate oppression makes the problem much more complex. Material want is bad enough, but coupled with spiritual poverty, it kills.
Sometimes I sit down and I think ‘Do I regret this? Do I regret that?’ And I feel like everything makes this snowball effect, you know? If you regret something, it’s good because it just means that it’s something that’s affected you enough for you to stop and think… There’s a reason that everything happens.
Yes, exercise is the catalyst. That’s what makes everything happen: your digestion, your elimination, your sex life, your skin, hair, everything about you depends on circulation. And how do you increase circulation?
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.
I am Maradona, who makes goals, who makes mistakes. I can take it all, I have shoulders big enough to fight with everybody.
The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.
The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
People’s behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
I’m a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.
It’s hardware that makes a machine fast. It’s software that makes a fast machine slow.
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
A good movie makes the audience feel like they’ve journeyed with the characters.
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Baking makes me focus. On weighing the sugar. On sieving the flour. I find it calming and rewarding because, in fairness, it is sort of magic – you start off with all this disparate stuff, such as butter and eggs, and what you end up with is so totally different. And also delicious.
What can cake teach you about life? That practice makes perfect, and if you try something once, it probably won’t be perfect, and you have to keep working on it if you want to be good at it.
I believe that we all have a responsibility to give back. No one becomes successful without lots of hard work, support from others, and a little luck. Giving back creates a virtuous cycle that makes everyone more successful.
There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!
If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.
Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
The fall of the Berlin Wall makes for nice pictures. But it all started in the shipyards.
As long as you have discipline, you can be a success. Discipline is what makes you do everything you need to do.
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
In rallying every curve, every hill may be different than you thought. That makes it interesting.
Nothing makes you feel better than when you get into a hotel bed, and the sheets feel so good. Why shouldn’t you wake up like that every day? Spend money on your mattress and bedding because these things make a difference on your sleep and, ultimately, your happiness.
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.
I pray to God every day that he makes me the biggest superstar, but before that, I ask God to make me a good actor. Being a star is hard, but being an actor is even harder. I want to be both before I am done.
A great figure or physique is nice, but it’s self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.
Food is a lot of people’s therapy – when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It’s releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good.
Never wear a seersucker suit straight off the rack. It’s going to look shapeless and droopy. If you’re going to sport seersucker, whether a jacket, trousers or a full suit, have it fitted. A nice, custom, tailored fit makes all the difference in the world.
Art, to me, is the interpretation of the impression which nature makes upon the eye and brain.
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.
Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!
‘Spring Day’ – I wrote main lyrics based on my personal experience with old friends. It is about my sad memories with him, and it makes me sentimental whenever I listen to the song.
My half-sister was born without a cerebellum and is completely disabled. She is my biggest motivator and inspiration, because her situation makes me realize how special life is, and I always want to work twice as hard, enjoy life twice as much so that I can enjoy it for her as well.
Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.
Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother.
I truly believe that it’s all of the hard times that make you step up to the next level, and that’s what makes you a champion.
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
No matter what happens on the field, getting an education makes you a winner.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Darwin’s idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
He makes no friends who never made a foe.
It’s not what you do once in a while, it’s what you do day in and day out that makes the difference.
Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.
A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary.
I believe there’s an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.
When one puts up a building one makes an elaborate scaffold to get everything into its proper place. But when one takes the scaffold down, the building must stand by itself with no trace of the means by which it was erected. That is how a musician should work.
It’s not only what happens on the court that makes us the players we are; it’s also everything that happens outside the court.
Being able to live my life transparently does empower me to feel like I can be myself more. It’s easier for me to flirt with girls now that girls know that I’m gay. It almost makes it a sexier encounter than if I was trying to pretend that I was straight.
Creating a strong company culture isn’t just good business. It’s the right thing to do, and it makes your company better for all stakeholders – employees, management, and customers.
