All Quotes

What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel

What makes a movie now is a package, a brand, a remake or some preexisting material.
‐‐ Christopher McQuarrie

What makes a narcissistic mother so scary? Her absolute power and controlling influence. A narcissistic mother is your only 'friend,' at least until you're old enough to go to school.
‐‐ Koren Zailckas

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.
‐‐ Naomi Campbell

What makes a person sexy is when he's not trying to be sexy.
‐‐ Juliette Binoche

What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style.
‐‐ Russell Smith

What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of time.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

What makes a really great fighter is a combination of ingredients: one is everything physical that you can do, and the other is what's mentally there for you. And I think that comes down to how big your heart is and what's driving you.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.
‐‐ Hal Boyle

What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?
‐‐ Brian Ferneyhough

What makes a story a story is that something changes. Internal, external, small or large, trivial or of earth-shattering importance. Doesn't matter.
‐‐ Sarah Monette

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.
‐‐ Len Wein

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
‐‐ Vanessa Marcil

What makes a woman stylish is what she has to say and how she chooses to live her life.
‐‐ Shirley Manson

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

What makes America amazing is that there have always been men and women of courage who were willing to think more about the future of their children and grandchildren than they did about their own political careers.
‐‐ Scott Walker

What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.
‐‐ Dennis Hastert

What makes America great was a government that was founded to be limited to doing one thing. I really believe the whole purpose of America, the aspirational value - why everybody who wants to come to this country wants to come here - was because we respected the dignity of every living person.
‐‐ Rick Santorum

What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
‐‐ Zoe Lofgren

What makes 'American Pie' so unusual is that it isn't a relic from the counterculture but a talisman, which, like a sacred river, keeps bringing joy to listeners everywhere. When 'American Pie' suddenly is played on a jukebox or radio, it's almost impossible not to sing along.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

What makes an actor, I think, is a combination of a deep curiosity about life and a case of the crazies.
‐‐ Nina Arianda

What makes an officer's job all the more difficult, dangerous, and demanding is that it rests on upholding that sacred trust with citizens that he or she serves. Nevertheless, I ask every officer in Chicago: reflect on your work, your training, your experience and - to be honest - about the fears and frustrations you bring to that job.
‐‐ Rahm Emanuel

What makes anyone think that I'm any good?
‐‐ Saul Leiter

What makes art powerful is a flash of recognition, a frightening encounter with something familiar about the human condition.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.
‐‐ Matthew Shipp

What makes characters real are details, and if you're crafting a person from scratch, you're probably not going to pay as much attention to a question like, 'Does this person bite their nails?'
‐‐ Gina Rodriguez

What makes climbing great for me, strangely enough, is this life-and-death aspect. It sounds trite to say, I know, but climbing isn't just another game. It isn't just another sport. It's life itself. Which is what makes it so compelling and also what makes it so impossible to justify when things go bad.
‐‐ Jon Krakauer

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
‐‐ Paul Wellstone

What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food.
‐‐ Vincent Schiavelli

What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine.
‐‐ Alex Steffen

What makes eBay successful - the real value and the real power at eBay - is the community. It's the buyers and sellers coming together and forming a marketplace.
‐‐ Pierre Omidyar

What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.
‐‐ Patricia Millett

What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
‐‐ Nick Saban

What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra.
‐‐ Harmony Korine

What makes Harlem special is that at any given time, food seekers can not only find food deeply rooted in Southern, Latin and African traditions, but also can taste the newer Senegalese, Chinese, and Italian influences as well.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him.
‐‐ Mark Ruffalo

What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
‐‐ Lady Gregory

What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.
‐‐ Bobby Hull

What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you're slamming your head against the wall. So it's nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding.
‐‐ Lewis Black

What makes Johnny Depp so brilliant is you truly have no idea what kind of character he's going to play next.
‐‐ Alexa Vega

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
‐‐ George Eliot

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
‐‐ Zane Grey

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's what their substance is.
‐‐ Jonathan Miller

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
‐‐ Dag Hammarskjold

What makes maftoul worth celebrating is that it's so easy and forgiving to cook.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

What makes me angry is when people know what is right but have, over the years, attuned themselves to the fact that what they're doing, stealing money from government, is acceptable.
‐‐ Miriam Defensor-Santiago

What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?
‐‐ Kathleen Turner

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.
‐‐ Lisa Randall