Make Something Quotes

395 quotes by 347 authors

Ask a Soviet engineer to design a pair of shoes and he'll come up with something that looks like the boxes that the shoes came… — Neal Stephenson
When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work?… — Gloria Vanderbilt
I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a… — Sam Shepard
We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part… — Max Brooks
People are scared to make something that doesn't look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get 'Four Weddings And… — Billy Boyd
When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's… — Roberto Benigni
You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use. — Bram Cohen
I am very proud to be a part of the Livestrong Foundation. I am maybe only a member but I give everything I can to… — Gregoire Akcelrod
I'm impatient. I get twitchy. When I get that feeling I just go out and make something happen. — John Cale
My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before. — Peter Carey
Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards. — Wayne Coyne
And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me… — Sam Donaldson
Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few… — Nell Freudenberger
My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only… — Frida Giannini
I want to make something commercial that people can pick up on. — Missy Elliot
I wouldn't consciously pursue trying to make something for the charts. It's just not in my scope now. I'd rather stick needles in my eyes. — Sheena Easton
It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh. — Abel Ferrara
No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music. — Utada Hikaru
The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself -… — Ken MacLeod
To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic. — John Kricfalusi

Who Wrote These Make Something Quotes

347 authors contributed a total of 395 Make Something Quotes, led by these top contributors: