Made Quotes

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was a business; but now, when great fortunes are only made by business, business is war.

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

I’m a coward, I close my eyes. I don’t understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off.

They had a big court battle over who got to keep me. Mom won; she made me live with Dad.

The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.

I'm telling you, monsters aren't born, they're made.

Hillary Clinton has made a lot of dough out of being a politician. I gave up dough to be a politician. I'm sure that Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician.

I saw the film Pearl Harbour and it made me wish that the Japanese had bombed Hollywood instead!

I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.

I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

I was so grateful that Lemony Snicket wasn't the worst movie ever made that I overlooked many things that might have otherwise upset me.

I realized the more I made the music for myself, the more successful I was becoming.

I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and music for people that I knew.

Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

The doctor looked at my cardiogram and made that "hmmmm" noise that doctors are taught in medical school so they won't come right out and say "UH-oh!"

I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures.

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

The first movie that made me cry was Dead Poets Society. That one gets me. O Captain! My Captain! That moment kills me.

God made me a singer, and I just sang.

I've taken all the scandals back and made them part of my story and my music.

Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.

So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power.

Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Under No Protest

Theseus made unscrupulous use of Ariadne (whom he left on an island where Bacchus later found her-I always think that really meant she took to drink, poor girl).

Una's face was an unbroken block of calculation, saving where, upon her upper lip, a little down of hair fluttered. Yet it gave one an uncanny feeling. It made one think of a tassel on a hammer.

Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.

It was fun to talk too much [as Jebediah Woodley], to keep running your mouth whether the other characters want to hear it or not. That's part of what made this guy fun.

I've loved science fiction my whole life. But I've never made a science fiction movie.

I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

Our mistakes don't make or break us - if we're lucky, they simply reveal who we really are, what we're really made of.

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.

I gather that he nearly knocked you down, damaged your property, and generally made a nuisance of himself, and that you instantly concluded he must be some relation to me.

I didn't grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner 'plan,' it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

The problem of expressing the contributions that Benny Carter has made to popular music is so tremendous it completely fazes me, so extraordinary a musician is he.

The truth is, I've made about 30 movies in 30 years, and I've been criticized for 30 years for not making more movies.

Beer must be made by food companies. It makes you wander the streets at 3 am looking for things to eat. "What's that, is it moving, get it!! It's a nun! Fry her!! Fry her!"

Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.

A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.

I made lots of talks and challenged lots of people.

It's made a lot of people richer from hearing Earl Scruggs. And I just think we're all very lucky to have him in the world.

You get committed with what you put in songs. It made me wary of who and what I include, because that's there forever.

The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.

Emil's [Nava], the video director. Originally, I was meant to do all the stuff that the puppet was doing. I just wasn't that comfortable with doing it, so he had a puppet made.