Made Quotes

Whole swaths of the book [Lincoln in the Bardo] are made up of verbatim quotes from various historical sources, which I cut up and rearranged to form part of the narrative.

[Reading Swing Time] made me a feel a little bit like when I used to read David [Foster] Wallace. Like, "I can't play that game. I wish I could, but I can't do it."

I'm a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.

Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me.

In the future history will be made only by us.

One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people's money to help prevent there to be a crisis.

First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country.

But I also made it clear to him [Vladimir Putin] that it's important to think beyond the old days of when we had the concept that if we blew each other up, the world would be safe.

Israel is our ally and in that we've made a very strong commitment to support Israel, we will support Israel if her security is threatened.

I am very comfortable with the strategic decisions that I made.

Some people are going to like the decisions I made, some people are not going to like the decisions that I made. That's just the way it is.

I made friends during my presidency.

In terms of trying to re-create an image, I think that's a waste of time. I have no interest in doing that. The decisions I made are done.

The decisions I made are done. And history will judge whether or not they were correct. There's no such thing as accurate short-term history.

I'm comfortable that I made the best decisions I possibly could.

I feel a sense of obligation to our troops and their families because of the decisions that I made. So I'm involved with veterans.

I think, to a certain extent the economy and these decisions I made to protect the country matter a lot.

I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't have made that decision. And I'll take responsibility for them. I'm human.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.

The most important appointment Pope Francis has made is the appointment of the Australian cardinal, George Pell, as the Vatican's financial overseer.

Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.

Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.

Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.

I think Katie Price is a really good businesswoman. She has made so much money.

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

When I'm depressed and I feel low thinking that good movies are not made any more, then I put on his movies and I watch them. I laugh and I cry and I have great pleasure.

I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.

I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it.

The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before going in with [Larry] Holmes. That would have made all the difference.

The fans made a difference in the outcome of the game. It was one of those games that Florida really did have to beat the team on the field and in the stands.

This life is made to change all reality. We are here for the benefit, happiness, and welfare of a new reality; a new direction.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.

If people are made to feel uncomfortable in the kitchen, they won't go in there. That's why I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing.

I just want to serve up the goodness and grace that's been given to me because I made a choice that lined up with my passion. And that's what I tell my kids.

I always try to have a book on hand, traveling is an excellent way of providing perspective, and studying Art History has made going to art museums way more fun than you can imagine.

I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.

All literary style, especially national style, is made up of such coincidences, which are a spiritual sort of puns. That is why style is untranslatable.

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.

The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.

I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.

Sometimes someone feels like nothing goes their way, and then something really good happens. For me, hearing that I made someone happy makes me feel so alive!

I just think some women aren't made to be mothers. And some women aren't made to be daughters.

It really does mean so much when your cast mates, who you respect so much, tell you that you made them laugh.

My first love is MMA... it's something that I did because it made me feel good.