Made famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
-- A. Bartlett Giamatti -
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
-- A. E. Housman -
Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.
-- A. Lee Martinez -
I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
-- Aaliyah -
I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
-- Aamir Khan -
I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
-- Aaron McGruder -
I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
-- Abbe Pierre -
He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.
-- Abbi Glines -
You tempt me. I can’t be tempted. I’m not made to be tempted.
-- Abbi Glines -
He'd made sure i had something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue.
-- Abbi Glines -
You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.
-- Abiola Abrams -
Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
How do I get it made? How do I get it seen? How do I get it in front of the people I want to serve?
-- Adam Leipzig -
'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.
-- Adam McKay -
God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman.
-- Adela Rogers St. Johns -
If only men came made to order. It's so hard to find a decent fellow.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
-- Adrienne Rich -
Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
-- Agnes Smedley -
I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.
-- Agnes Varda -
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
-- Aidan Chambers -
Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
-- Aidan Chambers -
I have always made it a point to know our employees, to visit every facility of our company, and to try to meet and know every single employee.
-- Akio Morita -
I have never forgiven myself…that I might have made a mistake.
-- Al Davis -
Don't I yearn for the days when a draw across the throat made f**king resolution.
-- Al Swearengen -
As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.
-- Alan Ayckbourn -
Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.
-- Alan Hollinghurst -
It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.
-- Alan Keyes -
I made it, Ma - Carnegie Hall. And I didn't have to practice.
-- Alan King -
You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
-- Alan Lightman -
I'm a pluralist. I've always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.
-- Alan Parker -
Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made.
-- Alan Rickman -
I did not come into football to make money. I had already made millions.
-- Alan Sugar -
If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them they could perceive what they have made of us.
-- Albert Camus -
Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.
-- Albert Camus -
I was comfortable in all, I admit, but at the same time, nothing satisfied me. Each joy made me seek another.
-- Albert Camus -
The state was made for man, not man for state.
-- Albert Einstein -
A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein -
I borrowed 100 pounds and made the pact with God: Make me a millionaire - and you can have half of my money.
-- Albert Gubay -
One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.
-- Alberto Fujimori -
We are just not made up to be middle distance runners.
-- Alberto Juantorena -
My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.
-- Aleatha Romig -
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
-- Aleister Crowley -
And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.
-- Alex Cox -
A treaty cannot be made which alters the Constitution of the country, or which infringes and express exceptions to the power of the Constitution.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
We have rigged the latest election. 93.5 per cent have voted for Lukashenko. But they say it is not a European outcome. We have made it 86 per cent.
-- Alexander Lukashenko -
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
-- Alexander Payne -
When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.
-- Alexander Payne -
Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
-- Alexander Pope -
Curse on all laws but those which love has made.
-- Alexander Pope -
God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.
-- Alexander the Great -
The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
I still think that being thrown in a very competitive environment where you really have to see what you are made of - certainly when you come out of nowhere - was good for me.
-- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon -
There are the relationships you make. All of the friends I made in grad school are the closest ones that I have.
-- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon -
You were made to soar, to crash to earth, then to rise and soar again.
-- Alfred Wainwright -
You don't want to remake something that's just been made, as an actor.
-- Alice Englert -
Childhood is but change made gay and visible ...
-- Alice Meynell -
What made me empathic was my depressions.
-- Alice Weaver Flaherty -
Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.
-- Alicia Keys -
My parents made us do everything, try everything.
-- Alison Krauss -
Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling ones.
-- Allen Frances -
All my life, the mistakes I've made have been honorable ones.
-- Alma Kruger -
Objects are made to be completed by the human mind.
-- Alvar Aalto -
Our bodies are made to nurture and cuddle and all of those amazing things that come along with being a mom.
-- Alyssa Milano -
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am;" as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
When you have made a catalogue of your friend's faults it is only fair to supply him with a duplicate, so that he may know yours.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Under questioning, a terrorist should be made to yield.
-- Ami Ayalon -
The colonists usually say that it was they who brought us into history: today we show that this is not so. They made us leave history, our history, to follow them, right at the back, to follow the progress of their history.
-- Amilcar Cabral -
If marriages are said to be made in heaven then why search for grooms in hell.
-- Amit Abraham -
It can be made only when one recognizes the ground of being itself, when one recognizes directly that One is All.
-- Amit Goswami -
You know, parenting is so personal. And we're all afraid that we didn't quite get it right. And it feels like the stakes are so high. By we - what if we made a mistake?
-- Amy Chua -
If God makes all our faces, did he laugh when he made me?
-- Amy Harmon -
There were in life rarely, if ever, "right" decisions, never perfect ones, only the best to be made under the circumstances.
-- Amy Waldman -
If models are made for modeling, thick girls are made for cuddling.
-- Andre Benjamin -
It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.
-- Andre Rieu -
Say this is what the pain made of you: an open, open, open road, an avalanche of feel it all.
-- Andrea Gibson -
The magic of espresso is that it's only made with 50 beans.
-- Andrea Illy -
What made Manhattan Manhattan was the underground infrastructure, that engineering marvel.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
I haven't really made up my mind concretely about having kids.
-- Andrew Rannells -
Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.
-- Andrew Solomon -
Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.
-- Andrzej Wajda -
If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside.
-- Andy Andrews -
Michele Bachmann says God made the earthquake and hurricane to punish us. Untrue - he made Michele Bachmann for that.
-- Andy Borowitz -
Bacon is clearly a food made by the Nazis to fatten up Americans. It has no nutritional value, is full of fat, sodium, and nitrates, and is a pathetic type of consumable made from the noblest of creatures.
-- Andy Rooney -
I've learned... that just one person saying to me, 'You've made my day!' makes my day.
-- Andy Rooney -
Gorillas are still wild creatures. That's made very clear when you observe them in nature. They charge and perform other displays that are terrifying by design. But they don't attack unless they feel threatened.
-- Andy Serkis -
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
-- Ang Lee -
I made about 56 movies, I think. Not that many.
-- Angela Lansbury -
It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.
-- Anita Ekberg