Made Quotes

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love.

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before.

I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.

I fell in love with words and I think that made my mom smile. I think that was cool for her.

That's right, karate... made my whole body a weapon.

If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.

We keep this love in a photograph We made these memories for ourselves Where our eyes are never closing Hearts are never broken And time's forever frozen still

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

Libraries are not made, they grow.

There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.

I'm glad I've had to struggle. It's made me the artist I am now.

Far, far away something made a single ghostly howl, like a banshee in the dark.

No music while making love... the sound of the love being made is better than music.

He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.

Our emotions are made by God, yet they too must bow before Him

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions.

When the most important decisions are made in secret, we lose our ability to check the powers that control.

There is no book that has had as much opposition as the Bible. Men have laughed at it, they have scorned it, they have ridiculed it, they have made laws against it.

So I hope I’ve made clear that imposing agile methods is a very red flag.

Always remember that Nature refuses to be rushed. She can only be made to evolve and that takes time, so take heart.

We are made for loving. If we don’t love, we will be like plants without water.

I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.

Revolutions are not made with literature. Revolutions equal gunfire.

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

I made out with a homeless guy by accident. I had no idea -- he was really tan, he had no shoes on. I just thought it was, like, his thang, you know? I was like, 'He's probably in a band.

Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.

I always made a point of telling the doctors I was sane, and asking to be released, but the more I endeavored to assure them of my sanity, the more they doubted it

It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.

Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.

I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.

A sphere is made up of not one, but an infinite number of circles; women have diverse gifts, and to say that women's sphere is the family circle is a mathematical absurdity.

Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

I was obsessed with Batman as a kid. I did the film in part just to be near the Batmobile. But I also think [director] Christopher Nolan made a very fine, intelligent film.

In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.

I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

We are made of stardust, our whole body consists of material that has been here before the beginning of time.

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't turn the clock back to 1904, what's the point of being a Conservative?

Definitive resolutions are made always and only in a state of mind that is not destined to last.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.