All Quotes

What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.
‐‐ Sigourney Weaver

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.
‐‐ Joshua Foer

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.
‐‐ Andrew Lo

What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.
‐‐ Chris Martin

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
‐‐ Barack Obama

What makes us feel pessimistic about the world, ultimately, is the way the media encourage us to believe that our fate hangs on the every move of the promise-breaking, terminally disappointing Teflon liars in Washington.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

What makes us human depends on what place on our evolutionary path we're talking about. If you go back six million years ago, what makes us human is that we were walking upright. That's all. If you go to 2.6 million years ago, it's the fact that we're designing and making stone tools.
‐‐ Donald Johanson

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.
‐‐ Jane Goodall

What makes us love a character is a character that tries.
‐‐ Annette Bening

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each.
‐‐ Darin Strauss

What makes you a good citizen makes you a good Christian... Obey the law of your land by not crossing the borders of your nation with Ebola virus.
‐‐ T. B. Joshua

What makes you the establishment is if you buy into it.
‐‐ Paul Manafort

What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan?
‐‐ Nolan Ryan

What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
‐‐ E. F. Benson

What man or woman of common sense now doubts the intellectual capacity of colored people? Who does not know, that with all our efforts as a nation to crush and annihilate the mind of this portion of our race, we have never yet been able to do it.
‐‐ Angelina Grimke

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.
‐‐ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What many don't know is that Arizona has a something called the State Land Trust - a fund with assets that have been set aside and invested for decades specifically to benefit education.
‐‐ Doug Ducey

What many economists fail to understand is that poor people are no less concerned about improving their lot and that of their children than rich people are.
‐‐ Theodore Schultz

What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever.
‐‐ Eoin Colfer

What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.
‐‐ Brian Sutton-Smith

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.
‐‐ Frank Crowninshield

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
‐‐ Lionel Trilling

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
‐‐ Oprah Winfrey

What mattered about Alan Kurdi's photograph was that it made Canadians very angry, and the Conservatives, Liberals and New Democrats ended up competing with each other over which party was offering the most generous refugee policy.
‐‐ Terry Glavin

What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off.
‐‐ Stephen Greenblatt

What matters in any campaign is that you have a strategic core that makes the judgements, decides the strategy, and can deliver.
‐‐ Douglas Alexander

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
‐‐ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
‐‐ Harold Bloom

What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms.
‐‐ Brendan Myers

What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
‐‐ Ted Dekker

What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.
‐‐ Millard Drexler

What matters is 'Have you done a better job of making our experiences feel like home on Windows?' That's our real goal, and that's what we're going to stay focused on.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

What matters is moving forward and focusing on practical results for the American people.
‐‐ Evan Bayh

What matters is not the facts but how you discover and think about them.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

What matters is that my daughter is surrounded by love. I believe in the right to go down the path that feels best for you.
‐‐ Monica Cruz

What matters is that there is somewhere for those who are troubled, threatened or afraid to turn to in their darkest hour. What matters is that there are those who are willing and able to use the law as an instrument of inclusion, of protection, and of freedom.
‐‐ Loretta Lynch

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
‐‐ Malcolm Mclaren

What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
‐‐ Sai Baba

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.
‐‐ Frank Luntz

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.
‐‐ Johannes Tauler

What matters most is the win.
‐‐ Canelo Alvarez

What matters most is your overall way of eating and living.
‐‐ Dean Ornish

What matters most to me is doing what I was elected to do: help make life better for Oregonians and making America work for working Americans again.
‐‐ Jeff Merkley

What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
‐‐ Sarah Bernhardt

What matters to me is learning and growing, and getting to do what I love to do. As long as I can do that, I'm happy.
‐‐ Jeremy Renner

What matters to me is my own estimation, and I'm very tough on myself. I need to be proud of what I've done and I work hard for it. I had a very Christian upbringing... lots of guilt. A good thing, It keeps you sane.
‐‐ Jean Dujardin

What matters to me is that I do what I think is right and I see, I'm a numbers guy, that's my attitude. I know we have a debt tsunami coming, we are bankrupting this country and I'm in a position where I can actually advance ideas to prevent that from happening. That's exactly what I should be doing.
‐‐ Paul Ryan

What matters to me is that one identifies one's genuine obsessions, one's genuine commitments, one's genuine appetites, one pursues them seriously and far.
‐‐ Leon Wieseltier