Made Quotes

Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.

Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right.

The American political system is like fast food - mushy, insipid, made out of disgusting parts of things and everybody wants some.

The only time a bachelor's bed is made is when it's in the factory.

I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um...

I have taken my children all over the world to see things but I've also made a point that they need to give something back for being so blessed.

It's sad to see that something you have done or the decisions that you have made affect your children in a negative way.

Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.

In the modern world, nationalism remains a very important force. We delude ourselves into thinking that globalization has made all of that redundant and that everyone just wants to be like America.

I would do the baby voice and it's kind of like this character I made up. But in real life, I'm completely different. I'm very smart. I think a lot of people will assume I'm an airhead.

It hurts that, you know, the media's made me into sort of this like punching bag or cartoon character-they think that I don't have any feelings, and, you know, it hurts like anyone else.

My label in Toronto was Stand Pat and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

The Constitution was made for ordinary people.

Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them.

Ive always enjoyed seeing how things are made.

Werewolf games,' Mercy said solemnly, 'play for keeps, or go home.' She was so cute sometimes it made Adam's heart hurt.

The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.

The materials of true poetry are always humble, absolutely idiosyncratic, the autobiographical tatters that, in gifted hands, are made into the memoir that fits us all.

He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere.

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

All the most powerful speeches ever made point to a better future.

I ended up doing literally every television show ever made, for at least a day. It was great to see how that worked. That's how I cut my teeth.

The appointment of the next Supreme Court justice must be made in the people's interest and in the nation's interest, not in the interest of any partisan faction.

I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment.

It's not the mistakes I made but how I responded to them

The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.

Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that it frightened them late at night.

What has made me most proud - the things that I've done that I feel the most pride about - is helping people care about making the world better.

After two years of sending out query letters and failing to get an agent, I made friends with an author, who was nice enough to introduce me to his agent. That got my foot in the door.

There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on "The Simpsons". See, there's "The Simpsons", and then there's everything else.

I made a big mistake. There's no doubt about it. But there have been positive testing cases in the past where the offender wasn't attacked to quite the same extent, especially not by other riders.

I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a place called Hollywood. Somebody made it up!

Many a false step is made standing still.

That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.

I'm an artist. I'm interested in how art gets made.

The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.

One of my groupies gave me a film that they made, and it ended up being amazing, so I got it shown at South by Southwest. If I can help get their stuff out there, then great.

It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up.

Having made films, I know very well that the scope of the average 90- to 120-minute movie is about the same narrative heft as a long short story or a novella.

For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

I've made a career making stuff that nobody sees, so anything that I can do to help make something that people are going to enjoy and want to see over and over again, then I'm there.

A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

In case you didn't know, ethanol is made by mixing corn with your tax dollars.

Most of the films that I've written, made in my life, I've written. Not all, but most I would say.

I always thought Christians were the weak people. When you can't make it in life then you have to ask God. I really prided myself on being a self-made man.