M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Making scary movies and creating tension is very technical and it require a lot of coverage. It requires the stretching of time.”
“Making sensible choices is short-term thinking; they never make for good memories.”
“Making shots counts, but not as much as the people who make them.”
“Making ski racing fun and engaging for kids and families is an exciting opportunity and a real passion of mine.”
“Making sleep happen is a must - anytime, anywhere, from a plane to a train to an automobile. Ideally, I like to get eight to ten hours a night, though I'll take it broken up in two segments if I have to.”
“Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.”
“Making someone die, he was suddenly sure, was different from killing them. He could never kill anyone. But he could make someone die.”
Source: Nathaniel
“Making someone else important is your biggest ability.”
“Making someone feel obligated, pressured or forced into doing something of a sexual nature that they don't want to is sexual coercion. This includes persistent attempts at sexual contact when the person has already refused you. Nobody owes you sex, ever; and no means no, always.”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“Making someone happy is perhaps the humblest way of approaching happiness.”
“Making someone responsible for your misery also makes them responsible for your happiness. Why give that power to anyone but yourself?”
“Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but adopting it for their own and making a separate thing for it, that's beautiful. It just shows you how much you can affect other people... the butterfly effect of everything you put out into the world.”
“Making something beautiful is difficult but it is amazingly worthwhile. If you learn to make something in your life truly beautiful - even one thing then you have established a relationship with beauty. From there you can begin to expand that relationship out into other elements of your life and the world.”
“Making something become a habit takes time.”
Source: Free Agent Lifestyle: Men's Guide To Peace, Quiet and Freedom
“Making something is Hard
Making something you don't even CARE ABOUT is
EVEN HARDER .”
“Making something new to look at is a futile and empty act if its only audience is the eyes.”
“Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are.”
Source: One of Us
“Making something simple is very difficult.”
“Making something take longer than necessary is probably the worst example of work ethic and is patently lazy, but looks busy...not cool.”
“making specific changes in your
child’s bedroom can improve cleanliness, encourage good
study habits, boost your relationship, spark creativity, help
concentration, promote calmness, and improve mental
health.”
Source: Help! My Room Exploded: How to Simplify Your Home to Reduce ADHD Symptoms
“Making steel may be compared to making a chappati. To make a good chappati, even a golden pin will not work unless the dough is good”
“Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when we knew less. These are the essentials of continued aesthetic discovery.”
“Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.”
“Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more.”
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
“Making Superman was so hard. We were a year over schedule. We were there a year and a half, the first time. And in a year and a half, you go through everything you go through in a life. So you can't really go, "Oh, it must have been fun to work with Chris Reeve." In a year and a half, you bonded like a family, so you know someone far too well to think something as simplistic as "Oh, it's just fun." You know their secrets. I mean, it was everything. It was truly - it's a cliché to say we were family, but we really were.”
“Making sure all our students get a great education, find a career that's fulfilling and rewarding, and have a chance to live out their dreams ... wouldn't just make us a more successful country - it would also make us a more fair and just one.”
“Making sure every child can read, making sure that we encourage faith-based organizations ... when it comes to helping neighbors in need, making sure that our neighborhoods are safe, making sure that the state of Texas recognizes that people from all walks of life have got a shot at the Texas dream but, most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.”
“Making sure that health care is affordable for every American. I think that is very, very important.”
“Making sure that the geography and timelines work is always the hardest part of writing. But you owe it to the readers to get it right!”
“Making sweeping statements such as 'no sweets ever again' has never worked before, and it's not going to work now. You'll get quickly overwhelmed and punt on any positive momentum you created.”
“Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that making systems work - whether in healthcare, education, climate change, making a pathway out of poverty - is the great task of our generation as a whole.”
“Making that final commitment is really hard. Because once you decide to move forward, it becomes a whole process which is really hard to stop.”
“Making that statement of 'I'm not afraid to be untamed.' It's just kind of the marriage of those two things.”
“Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.”
“Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.”
“Making the assumption from the outset that the police are corrupt will help in protecting you from their corruption.”
“Making the assumption that I am in the presence of criminals has always kept me safe when interacting with police officers.”
“Making the attempt is what matters most.”
“Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.”
“Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.”
“Making the big shot wouldn't feel so good if missing it didn't feel so awful”
“Making the case (for same-sex marriage) from a conservative values perspective is an imperative, not an option.”
“Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.”
Source: Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
“Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day.”
“Making the complicated simple is true creativity.”
“Making the conscious decision to chase your dreams is not for the faint of heart.”
“Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with.”
“Making the decision to honor the wisdom of one's soul isn't always easy. It can bring into question our very sense of who we are. If we really listen to the truth bubbling up beneath the surface of our lives, things might change. We might have to face the fact that our inner wisdom and that which we have come to accept as true, safe and popular may be very different--a process that can be rather disconcerting, to say the least.”
Source: Soul Wisdom: A Guide to Miraculous Living
“Making the decision to walk away from chemo wasn't the end of the battle — it was the beginning of a new one.”
Source: Faith In Wild Places: A Holistic Story of Healing, Faith and Life After Cancer
“Making the documentary was an extraordinary experience and it really hit home to me the quasi-religious nature of this anthropogenic global warming cause. These people really have found religion.”