Makes You Quotes

2796 Makes You quotes by 1747 unique authors

The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth… — Groucho Marx
It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build… — Patrick Rothfuss
Love makes you see a place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to someone you love. If you know one landscape… — Anne Michaels
Just thinking about a friend makes you want to do a happy dance, because a friend is someone who loves you in spite of your… — Charles M. Schulz
Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. — Stephen Chbosky
I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile. — Robert Jordan
But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good… — Dean Koontz
Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are. — John Fowles
Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is… — Susan Sontag
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes… — C.S. Lewis
You don't have to know everything in the world. We aren't supposed to. It makes you boring in mixed company if you can't be interested… — Angela Johnson
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him.… — John Steinbeck
There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever,… — Anne Michaels
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer." "What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman? — Kurt Vonnegut
What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful. — Scott Westerfeld
You have a grand gift for silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion. — Arthur Conan Doyle
When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off… — C.S. Lewis
Tell me a story then...keep me occupied." "A story?...What makes you think I can tell a story?" "Insight," said the king, "Go on. — Megan Whalen Turner
My parents believe in the principle of ‘sink or swim,’ or ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger ― or it kills you.” From “The… — Daniel Pinkwater
It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
We have this idea that love is supposed to last forever. But love isn't like that. It's a free-flowing energy that comes and goes when… — Neil Strauss
I think she was the love of his life. When you've got one of those, it does stuff to you. It makes you think about… — Nora Roberts
Well, most women are full to the brim, that's all...We are, most of us, ready to explode, especially when our children are small and we… — Elizabeth Berg
What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of… — Barack Obama
Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole. — China Mieville

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