All Quotes

What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.
‐‐ Jay Electronica

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.
‐‐ Erykah Badu

What makes me happy is having a really nice day out with my mum, or getting better at something I've been working hard at.
‐‐ FKA twigs

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
‐‐ Taylor Swift

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.
‐‐ Seth MacFarlane

What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

What makes me laugh about politics, sometimes, is it seems like once we get to a point where our problems are seemingly unsolvable, it's because we're looking through a wrong point of view. If we turn the thing on its head, then maybe we might see it differently.
‐‐ Dave Davies

What makes me laugh is, of course, the absurd, the horror - anything that upsets me.
‐‐ Joan Rivers

What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.
‐‐ Bruce Vilanch

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.
‐‐ David Duchovny

What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

What makes me sad about school is that the people who are unhappy are unhappy because they don't believe it will change. And I just want to say: 'It does! High school ends and it's over.' I will tell anyone that it's OK to be unhappy at school, make lots of mistakes and then it will be over.
‐‐ Alice Englert

What makes me unique is that I'm normal.
‐‐ Scotty McCreery

What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

What makes me worry today is the alarming decline in the trust in democratic institutions - political parties, Parliaments, political leaders. Less and less people are going to the polls in most advanced democracies.
‐‐ Ivan Krastev

What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.
‐‐ John Burnside

What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
‐‐ Kate Hudson

What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.
‐‐ Joshua Prager

What makes most people comfortable is some sort of sense of nostalgia. I grew up in a small town, and I could count my friends on one hand, and I still live that way. I think I'll die in a small town. When I can't move my bones around a stage any more, you'll find me living in a place that's spread out and rural and spacious.
‐‐ Justin Timberlake

What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
‐‐ Ray Charles

What makes my work my own is where I'm writing from. And I feel like I have a million stories to write about Chicago.
‐‐ Joe Meno

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
‐‐ Jean Paul

What makes our country unique is its commitment to being open, to making its leaders accountable.
‐‐ Janet Reno

What makes our product work is the way we're tightly focused on messaging and being an SMS replacement.
‐‐ Jan Koum

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.
‐‐ John Russell

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.
‐‐ John Berger

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.
‐‐ Franklin P. Jones

What makes revolutionary thought unique is its clarity and dignity, and its clear grasp of freedom and justice: simple, clear words that are understood without the need for any help from elite writers or thinkers.
‐‐ Nawal El Saadawi

What makes San Francisco work is that high-value people like to live there and cluster.
‐‐ James Coulter

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
‐‐ Andre Agassi

What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
‐‐ Christopher Reeve

What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile.
‐‐ James Hansen

What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they know exactly what they're in for. They spend weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and dangerous this work is. Then they raise their right hands and take an oath and do that work anyway.
‐‐ James Comey

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
‐‐ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.
‐‐ Grant Achatz

What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the Union.
‐‐ Susan Eisenhower

What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.
‐‐ Reid Hoffman

What makes the most money for this business? Dead rock stars.
‐‐ Courtney Love

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.
‐‐ Barbara Kruger

What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.
‐‐ Jon Landau

What makes the United Nations an appropriate source of legitimacy for intervention is that it is the only place where the claims of the strong are put through the test of justification in front of the weak.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

What makes the United States great, the reason people wanted to live in the United States, move here still, is because of our ability to innovate.
‐‐ Bill Nye

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world.
‐‐ John Charles Polanyi

What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination.
‐‐ Bela Karolyi

What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.
‐‐ Tristan Wilds

What makes the world such a wonderful place is the diversity. I have always strived to fill my home, my office and my hotels with the most diverse crowds possible.
‐‐ Petter Stordalen