Making Up Quotes

124 Making Up quotes by 114 unique authors

My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my… — Henry Adams
Every good citizen should be willing to devote a brief time during some one day in the year, when necessary, to the making up of… — Cordell Hull
I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for… — Jonathan Ames
Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along. — Jerry Cantrell
My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome… — Jane Horrocks
Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric. — Kary Mullis
People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants. — Joss Stone
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost. — Quintilian
Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind. — Ralph Barton Perry
You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind… — King Edward VIII
You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone. — Tina Fey
I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my… — Hunter Hayes
A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole… — Lucy Larcom
If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be… — Elmore Leonard
I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter… — Rush Limbaugh
The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and… — Wynton Marsalis
Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my… — Marla Maples
But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story. — Errol Morris
There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. — Josefina Vazquez Mota
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins. — Jules Renard
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism. — Tom Wolfe
The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with… — Rob Sheffield
Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they… — Randall Munroe
When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it. — Ian Mcewan
Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again." "Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think? — James A. Owen

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