Maker Quotes
431 quotes by 381 authors
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As a film-maker and a poet, I feel it's my duty to be an eye and an antenna to what's happening around me. I always…
— Jonas Mekas
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Craft takes time, and therefore it is luxury. You cannot do an amazingly well-made garment without taking time—not just the time it takes to make…
— Isabel Toledo
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I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael]…
— William Hogarth
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We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion,…
— Charles Kingsley
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When Spring unlocks the flowers To paint the laughing soil; When summer's balmy breezes Refresh the mower's toil; When winter holds in frosty chains The…
— Reginald Heber
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Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of…
— Saint Augustine
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We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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The understanding eye sees the maker’s fingerprints. They are evident in every detail ... Leave Fingerprints.
— James Krenov
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You and I are forever at the mercy of the census-taker and the census-maker. That impertinent fellow who goes from house to house is one…
— Walter Lippmann
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The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into…
— Aristotle
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A man should be encouraged to do what the Maker of him has intended by the making of him, according as the gifts have been…
— Thomas Carlyle
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What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe.
— Timothy Keller
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I believe that our Great Maker is preparing the world, in His own good time, to become one nation, speaking one language, and when armies…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in…
— Ezra Pound
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If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker.
— Kevin Smith
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When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to…
— George Lucas
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I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without risk; the critic…
— John Lahr
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The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.
— Israel Shenker
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My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while…
— A. A. Gill
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