Make Something Quotes
395 quotes by 347 authors
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He would work through the night and sleep until lunch. There wasn't really much else to do. Make something, and die.
— Ian Mcewan
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There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are…
— Thornton Wilder
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Looking closer can make something beautiful
— Cynthia Lord
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Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way it works you…
— Marya Hornbacher
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maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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A label doesn't make something so. A label is just a word. It's what a person does that makes them who they are
— Heather Brewer
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Creativity is not so much a boundless well, but an all-you-can-eat buffet of elements for your creative endeavor. Eventually you've eaten your fill, and it's…
— Vera Nazarian
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Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and…
— D. H. Lawrence
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I think that you’ve got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.
— Thomas Keller
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Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about. ...…
— Harry Crews
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No. You can't work your way into heaven. Anytime you try and justify yourself with works, you disqualify yourself with works. What I do here,…
— Mitch Albom
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Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent…
— John F. Kennedy
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Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves- people who did only what they had…
— Mark Twain
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Luxury cruises were designed to make something unbearable (a two week transatlantic crossing) seem bearable. There's no need to do it now, there are planes.…
— Tina Fey
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I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be,…
— Danielle Steel
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What makes art Christian art? Is it simply Christian artists painting biblical subjects like Jeremiah? Or, by attaching a halo, does that suddenly make something…
— R C Sproul
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I’ll have your fathers make something special,†Holly said serenely. “If it turns out we don’t like him, I’ll cook the next meal for him.
— Maya Banks
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I will find the good in this loss. I will make something happen that wouldn't have happened otherwise.
— Emily Giffin
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I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.
— Paula McLain
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...some people aren't worth the trouble of being kind to, because they have neither the brains nor the power to make something for themselves out…
— Rob Sheffield
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