Top 570 Making Quotes

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
H. L. Mencken
If you had told me I’d be making 62 tomorrow, I’d say you were lying.
Aaron Neville
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy Warhol
The way you ‘take history’ is also a way of ‘making history.’
Erik Erikson
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
Billie Joe Armstrong
I’m always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I’ve been.
Billie Holiday
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
Niels Bohr
We’re always looking over our shoulders, ‘what they will think, what the press will think, what will this one – am I making the right career move?’ When you’re young you have to do all that to survive, I suppose.
Anthony Hopkins
Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it’s the ability to give.
Adam Neumann
My life has always been about making certain I accrue the skills necessary to make my ambitions real.
Stacey Abrams
So there’s nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who’s cool hates – and then making it cool.
Lady Gaga
If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.
Mary Todd Lincoln
I’m not trying to be coy here; we’re just not prepared to give a lot of detail about our thinking, but we will be making some announcements in the coming months.
Jim Walton
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn
The Process is never going to end. It's an ongoing thin

The Process is never going to end. It’s an ongoing thing. I don’t think it’s ever going to stop. As I have explained before, it’s a process for making it to the playoffs, it’s another one to make the conference finals, another one to actually go to The Finals and win the championship.
Joel Embiid
I have been making wire jewelry – and think I’ll really do something with it, eventually.
Alexander Calder
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Hannah Arendt
I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they’re making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.
Jason Katims
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
John Keats
I grew up peeling shrimp and making tartar sauce.
Justin Lin
I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can’t really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work – making an investment in the future of humanity.
Ted Turner
What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political party, we are committing the sin of idolatry. We are making Jesus into the image of our political party.
Tony Campolo
Making films has never just been a job to me; it is my life. I have some interests outside of acting – I sing and I’ve written books, for instance – but acting is what keeps me going: it’s what I do; it gives life purpose.
Christopher Lee
Entrepreneurs are misfits to the core. They forge ahead, making their own path and always, always, question the status quo.
Maximillian Degenerez
Succeeding in business is not just about making money.
Daniel Snyder
Don’t walk through life just playing football. Don’t walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone’s life, that’s the ultimate vision, that’s the ultimate goal – bottom line.
Ray Lewis
The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?
F. W. de Klerk
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
Washington Irving
I thank God for making me a man.
Little Richard
I am happy with my family and my colleagues and want to continue making my own kind of cinema. I have never belonged to any camp and have no friends in the industry. Most of them will pay lip service, but when it comes to doing, they tend to shy away.
Sunny Deol
Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken.
Pope Benedict XVI
Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.
Thomas Sowell
I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.
Madam C. J. Walker
Honestly, I am a very funny person, and I love making others laugh.
Nikki Tamboli
Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.
Mark Twain
We have the duty of formulating, of summarizing, and of communicating our conclusions, in intelligible form, in recognition of the right of other free minds to utilize them in making their own decisions.
Ronald Fisher
There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Dale Carnegie
Gun skill is never the main reason why someone is talented at a game. It’s literally their decision making.
Ninja
Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe – things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it’s actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.
Mike D
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say ‘we,’ I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.
Gael Garcia Bernal
I went to an all-boys Catholic school, and not only were we not allowed to wear pajamas, we had to wear dress shirts, dress pants, a tie, dress shoes… they stopped making us wear blazers, like, two years before I started there, so pajamas… you wouldn’t even get in the front door wearing pajamas at my school.
John C. Reilly
I’m extremely confident. I do believe my own hype. And I’m working towards making it true.
Jon Jones
I love making people laugh. It’s an addiction and it’s probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there’s no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.
Jay Roach
I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.
Jayson Blair
When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

When I’m making a film, I’m the audience.
Martin Scorsese
Because we’re Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.
Anne Frank
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac Newton
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.
Paul Hawken
All I care about is making jokes that are funny and making people laugh.
Joel McHale
Not managing your time and making excuses are two bad habits. Don’t put them both together by claiming you ‘don’t have the time’.
Bo Bennett
The speed of decision making is the essence of good governance.
Piyush Goyal
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Robert H. Schuller
As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I’m going to work for it – even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.
Medgar Evers
People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.
Marilyn vos Savant
The future of technology is not really location-based apps; it is about making location completely unimportant.
Balaji Srinivasan
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
Val Kilmer
This is the most fun thing in the world to me, making music. Sitting down, I can make songs and not leave the booth, ever, and I love it.
A Boogie wit da Hoodie
Making sushi is an art, and experience is everything.
Nobu Matsuhisa
I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.
Siegfried Sassoon
I’m always afraid of making mistakes. I think I was born with that.
RM
The best way to promote and protect opportunity is through collaboration, consensus-building, and pragmatic problem-solving. Throughout nearly 30 years in public service, I have approached tough challenges by making room for as many people as possible around the table in search of common ground.
Tom Perez
I didn’t come from any money, but even when I was on ‘Big Love’ – people think you’re on a series and you’re making bank.
Aaron Paul
Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
Andy Rooney
So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
Paul McCartney