Quotes about Making Up

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics. Votes: 4

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins. Votes: 4

People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants. Votes: 4

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music. Votes: 4

The main three components are the blues, improvisation - which is some kind of element that people are trying to make it up - and swing, which means even though they're making up music, they're trying to make it up together. It feels great, like you're having a great conversation with somebody. Votes: 4

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along. Votes: 2

Flaws are awesome - so, flawsome! I love making up a word. Votes: 2

Flaws are awesome - so, 'flawsome!' I love making up a word. Votes: 2

The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep. Votes: 2

I am essentially a middle-aged woman who likes making up weird snack combinations and galloping. Votes: 2

The philosopher ought never to try to avoid the duty of making up his mind. Votes: 2

I feel at times that I'm making up these little people and I've lost my mind. Votes: 2

The key to making up Oscar Wilde quotes is to add '~ Oscar Wilde' at the end. Votes: 2

But there's a big difference between, say, reporting on a story and simply making up a story. Votes: 2

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin, the opportunity is lost. Votes: 2

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost. Votes: 2

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. Votes: 2

Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind. Votes: 2

The salat can be made up for, but there is no making up for false show or outward worship without presence. Votes: 2

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses. Votes: 2

You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone. Votes: 2

Im not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and Im still in the thinking stage. Votes: 2

I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage. Votes: 2

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul - satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. Votes: 2

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back. Votes: 2

I've always been making up my own restrictions for myself, from day one, and it's compelling, because it forces me to think. That's always been a driving force for me. Votes: 2

I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life. Votes: 2

My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that. Votes: 2

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts. Votes: 2

There are very real obstacles and challenges to any course of action. And there's no need to add to them, by making up obstacles of your own. Unchain yourself from the bondage of your own thinking. Votes: 2

I never, ever have seen media this way. It's almost indescribable. Making up stories, refusing to run real stories. It's making themselves look like utter fools. There's no journalism, there is no media. There's pure, full-fledged advocacy here. Votes: 2

In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music. Votes: 2

Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness. Happiness is ever elusive, but freedom from unhappiness is attainable now, by facing what is rather than making up stories about it. Votes: 2

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time. Votes: 2

I was the kind of kid who couldn't really stop making up stories during class. I didn't do very well academically because I was always drawing these little doodles in the margins of my notebooks and I wasn't bringing home the best grades. Votes: 2

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend. Votes: 2

Everything starts with yourself / with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend. Votes: 2

Weaknesses and deficiencies . . . play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another. Votes: 2

I remember, when I went away to college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, my aunt sent me a book with the rules of being a Southern Belle. One of the rules was to never wear white after Labor Day. Fashion has a lot to do with confidence and making up your own rules. Votes: 2

I have three younger siblings, so the four of us were outside all the time after school playing games, making up games. My sister made up a game called 'roof ball.' We'd play that constantly. She always beat me in it, and it made me very mad. But we were outside all the time. Votes: 2

Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions. Votes: 2

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion. Votes: 2

We still like to make up stories, just as our ancestors did, which use personification to explain the great forces of our existence. Such stories, which explain how the world began or where the sun goes when it sets, we call myths. Mythology is a natural product of the symbolizing mind; poets, when not making up myths of their own, are still commanding ancient ones. Votes: 2

I love making up titles. Votes: 0

You've gotta stop making stuff up. Votes: 0

Money always ends up making you blue. Votes: 0

Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up. Votes: 0

I remember making up songs in my head. Votes: 0

Enzo get up you're making me look bad. Votes: 0

I was always inventing characters and making up stories. Votes: 0

Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up! Votes: 0

Everyone seems quite good at stories and making them up. Votes: 0

Mathematics is about making up rules and seeing what happens. Votes: 0

I love making scary faces, that's just how I grew up. Votes: 0

One of the fun things about play is making up stories... Votes: 0

The best part of breaking up... is when you're making up. Votes: 0

To give up doing evil is more important than making merit. Votes: 0

The Universe is cool enough without making up crap about it. Votes: 0

Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier. Votes: 0

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy. Votes: 0

We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality. Votes: 0

Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again. Votes: 0

Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen. Votes: 0

The only person to blame is the person making up the bullshit. Votes: 0

I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films. Votes: 0

I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes. Votes: 0

If you worry too much about anything, you end up making bad movies. Votes: 0

We've given up making a living, its all this crazy love poetry now! Votes: 0

In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up. Votes: 0

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to. Votes: 0

Avoid second-quality issues in making up a portfolio unless they are demonstrable bargains. Votes: 0

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. Votes: 0

Dudes have been making up stuff about themselves probably since there have been dudes. Votes: 0

Quarrels are a natural part of relationships. Making up is always the best part. Votes: 0

We all have an interest in making sure teens grow up healthy and drug-free. Votes: 0

Usually a good part of the people trying it end up not making it. Votes: 0

We spend the second half of our life making up for the first half. Votes: 0

Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad. Votes: 0

Now I'm all messed up sick inside wondering who's life your making worth while. Votes: 0

I was the kind of kid who was always making up stories and adventures. Votes: 0

Sooner or later you end up making deals with women. It's an injustice, really. Votes: 0

If you listen too much to advice, you may wind up making other people's mistakes. Votes: 0

I blow up fireworks all the time, and I love making milkshakes and banana splits. Votes: 0

People have a hard time making me dress up to look like a classy gal. Votes: 0

I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame. Votes: 0

The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive. Votes: 0

Throw up whatever's making you sick, Darren," he said, "then get your behind back in here. Votes: 0

The ultimate step in taking responsibility is making sure our actions line up with our words. Votes: 0

For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters. Votes: 0

I just think that the media is just making things up. I don't really pay attention. Votes: 0

I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. Votes: 0

She had the habit of making up virtuous qualities in a man to support her attraction. Votes: 0

For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money. Votes: 0

What is grit? Grit is refusing to give up. It's persistence. It's making your own luck. Votes: 0

The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up. Votes: 0

Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst. Votes: 0

Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses. Votes: 0

People who are 'different' are usually the ones that end up making a difference in the world. Votes: 0

Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick. Votes: 0

If you're making it up, make it up good. And then believe in what you made up. Votes: 0

That was one problem with dramatic exits: Sometimes they wound up making you look like a bubblehead. Votes: 0

The idea of making the industry live up to its legal responsibility is not going to die. Votes: 0

I may not sound wrong when I say that by revealing history, you end up making it. Votes: 0

Everything starts with yourself-with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. Votes: 0

Kobe enjoys that situation. Stepping up and making the big basket or being involved in a key play. Votes: 0

We're supposed to be making up this stuff, playing at being in love, not actually being in love. Votes: 0

The creative genius begins in the idle moment, dreaming up the impossible, and later making it come true. Votes: 0

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind. Votes: 0

Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God. Votes: 0

I am private because I'm still figuring things out. I'm young! I'm making it up as I go! Votes: 0

With its population making up one fifth of the world's total, China offers a market with enormous potential. Votes: 0

Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric. Votes: 0

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up. Votes: 0

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers. Votes: 0

I was making love to my wife the other night, I looked up. She was on the phone. Votes: 0

First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave. Votes: 0

When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress. Votes: 0

I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes. Votes: 0

In making a clear distinction between desire (answer) and yearning (question), we inevitably end up back at personal purpose. Votes: 0

She genuinely likes people. All people, not just a select few she's spent years making up her mind about. Votes: 0

The most exciting mobile trend is full Qwerty keyboards. I'm sorry, it really is. I'm not making this up. Votes: 0

One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up. Votes: 0

As soon as you start making a record, things start getting lined up: the promotion, possibly even a tour. Votes: 0

I'm not sure I can think of any scenario more enjoyable than making 55,000 people from New York shut up. Votes: 0

There's something funny about being on a big stage and not making a big effort to fill it up Votes: 0

Take it from me: I really love making things up, which is why I write fiction for a living. Votes: 0

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. Votes: 0

If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time. Votes: 0

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing Votes: 0

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing. Votes: 0

Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along. Votes: 0

I just like making people laugh, and buried in that I like to bring up topics and start discussions. Votes: 0

With fiction, there's no reason why everything you write shouldn't be amazing. Nobody's stopping you from making up better stuff. Votes: 0

I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter. Votes: 0

Jack," said Charles, "he's making up words again." "Yes," Jack replied, "but he's getting better at it, don't you think? Votes: 0

It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up. Votes: 0

Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes. Votes: 0

And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio'. Votes: 0

When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn. Votes: 0

Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma. Votes: 0

If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting. Votes: 0

Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers. Votes: 0

A woman should always be more concerned with standing up for what is right than making sure everyone 'likes' her. Votes: 0

See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn’t screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good. Votes: 0

The essence of leadership is making up your own mind and then being able to take other people with you. Votes: 0

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me. Votes: 0

I couldn't cut up a frog, and I certainly couldn't perform surgery. I'm better at making it possible for other people. Votes: 0

I walk making up phrases; sit, contriving scenes; am in short in the thick of the greatest rapture known to me." Votes: 0

There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something. Votes: 0

What could be more interesting than thinking of mysterious happenings, finding the answers to intriguing questions, and making up new worlds? Votes: 0

Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love. Votes: 0

Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told. --Artemis Fowl Votes: 0

Food choices affect health outcomes, and consumers need to have the latest, most up-to-date scientific information in making their food choices. Votes: 0

Everyday when you wake up, create the intention and then commit to making it your best day ever. Seriously. Do it. Votes: 0

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity. Votes: 0

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it. Votes: 0

I'm not sure I'm a very good source of advice since we're kind of making this up as we go along. Votes: 0

I'd have to say, what inspires me is making sure my siblings have a good role model to look up to. Votes: 0

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told. Votes: 0

...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that. Votes: 0

...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel. Votes: 0

Right. I've been missing Nutty McFang anyway." "Stop making up names for him." "What about Count Crackula?" "Just stop. Votes: 0

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way. Votes: 0

When the audition for 'Cats' came up, even though I'd been making pop records, it felt like something I was attracted to. Votes: 0

By trying so hard to provide the perfectly happy childhood, we're just making it harder for our kids to actually grow up, Votes: 0

There's no performance where I never have to think about setting up a phrase or making a technical adjustment while I'm performing. Votes: 0

Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up? Votes: 0

...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same. Votes: 0

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention. Votes: 0

My love grows long, and my smile is wide. My gaze is deep, and my penchant for making up words is apopleggio. Votes: 0

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. Votes: 0

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. Votes: 0

Life is about making plans from which you deviate, almost always. If you are lucky, you do come up with a plan. Votes: 0

All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do. Votes: 0

Just making sure the boys are okay is my priority in life, and that takes up all of my time right now. Votes: 0

I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are. Votes: 0

We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That's why Pixar's goal is to screw up as fast as possible. Votes: 0

In addition to writing in received forms, I have also had fun making up forms - Möbius strips and visual poems, particularly. Votes: 0

I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television. Votes: 0

Making a wish is like saying, 'I can't deal with anything, I give up, somebody bigger come along and solve it all instead. Votes: 0

Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele. Votes: 0

Duchamp is known for calling a thing art, rather than making it. A lot of that is picked up in pop art, too. Votes: 0

It's only when we are able to see our own behavior that we are able to wake up and start making conscious choices. Votes: 0

When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence. Votes: 0

Look down, not up, when making your initial investment decision. If you don't lose money, most of the remaining alternatives are good ones. Votes: 0

Changing our decision sets up a bad habit. It reinforces decision-making as an expression of bewilderment and ignorance, instead of wisdom and freedom. Votes: 0

It's interesting when you make things or do things that open up the possibilities for making more things, or different kinds of things. Votes: 0

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate. Votes: 0

There are ways to stimulate being prolific, and part of that is making pilgrimages, and being open to listening, changing up the routine. Votes: 0

Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up. Votes: 0

There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions. Votes: 0

Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up. Votes: 0

Making love in the morning got me through morning sickness. I found I could be happy and throw up at the same time. Votes: 0

Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life. Votes: 0

God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New Journalism. Votes: 0

It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression. Votes: 0

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear. Votes: 0

There's nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a grown-up actress. Votes: 0

Film-making is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work. Votes: 0

I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated. Votes: 0

God cares most not about making us comfortable, but about teaching us to hate our transgressions and to grow up spiritually to love him. Votes: 0

Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later. Votes: 0

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. Votes: 0

Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll. Votes: 0

As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh. Votes: 0

Horses are not for riding! They do not exist for riding! Horse riding is man's invention! It is the making up of human benefit! Votes: 0

The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say. Votes: 0

It ain't because lovers are so sensitive that they quarrel so often; it is because there is so much fun n the making up. Votes: 0

It's much harder to give up on family.Deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake. Votes: 0

I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up. Votes: 0

In Denmark, we're making 20 films a year. If I'm showing up in even two of those, people will get tired of me really fast. Votes: 0

When my first daughter was born, I had to figure out a new way of [making music] so that I wouldn't wake her up. Votes: 0

I once had a man break up with me. He said I was using him because right after making love I would weigh myself. Votes: 0

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind. Votes: 0

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense. Votes: 0

Jeremy Scott reminds me of Harmony Korine, mixing all worlds and making them into one - you just never know what he's up to. Votes: 0

I was starting to think I was making up memories, just to have answers. Our brain does that sometimes. Or at least mine does. Votes: 0

Women do come up to me after a show, but it's usually to say, 'Yhank you for making us laugh,' and all that. Votes: 0

No man is the boss of his own house, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead. Votes: 0

To me, ultimate happiness is a journey, not a destination. It's not somewhere you end up, it's making choices every day to make yourself happy. Votes: 0

You need to find people that are drawn to the idea that you build, and they end up taking it and making it even better. Votes: 0

Levi's eyebrows were pornographic. If Cath were making this decision just on eyebrows, she would have been "up to his room" a long time ago. Votes: 0

My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop. Votes: 0

How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along? Votes: 0

You end up making a home in every place you're at, in a small way. In any way you can find a kind of mindfulness. Votes: 0

I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is. Votes: 0

My earliest memory is making peach cobbler with my grandmother. A wonderful memory. I grew up in a restaurant family - B.B.Q. restaurant. Votes: 0

As far as just my stand-up is concerned, I don't care about changing anyone's mind. I'm not making an argument. I'm a guy doing comedy. Votes: 0

...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up. Votes: 0

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock.So I stopped wearing socks. Votes: 0

I grew up in a family where the women were just nuts. They didn't stand around in cardigans making polite conversation while they chopped tomatoes. Votes: 0

I look at being an actress as being like a mummy: You're bandaged up and preserved as soon as you start making other people money. Votes: 0

I'm leaning towards making something for kids nine and under because I have kids now. I can clean it up and make it rated G. Votes: 0

The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion. Votes: 0

I would love to get with somebody who knows the fundamentals of making the movie, then get my money up and start getting into that. Votes: 0

Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex. Votes: 0

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along. Votes: 0

I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do. Votes: 0

I can't understand what's holding up our missile program. It's the first time the government ever had trouble making the taxpayers' money go up in smoke. Votes: 0

While I'm singing complete gibberish to my son when he's in his crib, I'll occasionally think, 'This song I'm making up is actually pretty good.' Votes: 0

I'm not a trained chef, so I end up making stuff up. It either turns out brilliant or an absolute disaster. I just go for it. Votes: 0

Life's all about making choices. You've made the choice to pick up the pieces and keep going, even when you've been devastated over and over again. Votes: 0

One Rockette, who's probably a lug head, doesn't even know which end's up or down, ends up making news, and the media loves to present it. Votes: 0

One Rockette, who's probably a lug head, doesn't even know which end's up or down, ends up making news, and the media loves to present it. Votes: 0

You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it. Votes: 0

I started making music professionally when I was 14. I did songs on that program GarageBand, and then I'd put demos up on MySpace with my friends... Votes: 0

I grew up kind of fast. I had a lot of responsibilities-cleaning the house, going to school on my own, making good grades on my own Votes: 0

I don't believe in the scraping of stuff. Take the existing condition, offer up a diagnosis for what's wrong, and a prescription for making it work. Votes: 0

I never made films like kind of career moves, like making this film in order to make that film in order to end up in Hollywood. Votes: 0

There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up. Votes: 0

I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see. Votes: 0

A new world order is in the making, and it is up to us to prepare ourselves that we may take our rightful place in it. Votes: 0

I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, and I ended up ... making things that I think can change the world. Votes: 0

Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value. Votes: 0

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes. Votes: 0

So she was considering in her own mind...whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up & picking the daisies... Votes: 0

The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all about imagining with me. Votes: 0

I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's ability to make up stories. Votes: 0

Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future. Votes: 0

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up. Votes: 0

I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service. Votes: 0

Its a good feeling when people come up to you and tell you your music helps them, and as long as it does, I'll keep making it. Votes: 0

Growing up, my fascination was all things dinosaur, and as an adult, I've had some success making films about aliens, so this is a dream come true. Votes: 0

It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman. Votes: 0

People always accuse me of making these dark, depressing movies. 'Why do you have to pick up on real issues? People are so exhausted and miserable.' Votes: 0

Making a living out of acting sounded like science-fiction when I was growing up. I didn't know anyone around me who lived from anything related to art. Votes: 0

Sometimes people are primed to hear in a certain way. When a word like braggadocious suddenly appears, it's like, 'What, is he just making that up?' Votes: 0

If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles. Votes: 0

Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse. Votes: 0

Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle Votes: 0

I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up. Votes: 0

If we die without making peace with God through His precious blood which was shed for us on the cross surely we shall end up in hellfire. Votes: 0

My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing. Votes: 0

I gotta tell you, I don't have many close friends, and if I do wind up making friends with somebody, it takes me a long time, usually. Votes: 0

I wonder if it's in the nature of fiction writers to never quite see their own lives as 'real,' since we are always making stuff up! Votes: 0

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them. Votes: 0

We have a beautiful program which is audacious and I really want us all to roll up our sleeves and to work at making it a success. Votes: 0

As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time Votes: 0

What is the point of living this beautiful life if you do not have a mission that ends up making the world a better place to live. Votes: 0

I said to my husband, 'Why don't you call out my name when we're making love?' He said, 'I don't want to wake you up.' Votes: 0

I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh Votes: 0

Every day that you get up, it's some kind of victory if you're making a good product, or working on a project that can only help mankind. Votes: 0

The great thing about fiction is that you can start off by telling the truth, then start making stuff up like crazy whenever you feel like it. Votes: 0

There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place. Votes: 0

I'm the youngest in my family, and everyone is very funny, and I was always trying to keep up with them. I just loved making people laugh. Votes: 0

Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace. Votes: 0

You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're arguing with your parents, you're making terrible mistakes, you're having great triumphs. It's what happens to teenagers. Votes: 0

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise. Votes: 0

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind. Votes: 0

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up. Votes: 0

They are definitely pros and cons to triple threat matches. The cons to them is obviously coming up wth something very original and making sure everything makes sense. Votes: 0

It's really remarkable to see two candidates,[Donald] Trump and [Marco] Rubio, making things up and putting things out for which there is no evidence and no basis. Votes: 0

There is not a well-funded campaign among scientists to say, "Look, here's the evidence. You can read it yourself. Here are the facts. We're not making this up." Votes: 0

You're human. You'll screw up. Denying that is crazy. Forgiving yourself has all the benefits of self-esteem without making you a narcissist that's out of touch with reality. Votes: 0

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer. Votes: 0

When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand. Votes: 0

Growing up poor, I never missed out on anything. My parents did a beautiful job of not making me feel like I was lesser than any other kids. Votes: 0

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - talk them or write them down. Votes: 0

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me. Votes: 0

I've always liked being funny and making people laugh. I was a cut-up when I was a kid, and was always doing bits for my friends and family. Votes: 0

I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ..." Votes: 0

Perhaps you are making a cat's paw of me with Phillotson all this time. Upon my word it almost seems so--to see you sitting up there so prim. Votes: 0

We say we need to clean up the environment; to clean up the environment, we need to be richer. But maybe getting richer is actually making us poorer. Votes: 0

I can get a script and go, "Well, I'd rather do stand-up." I don't hold movies in higher regard. I love making videos and posting. I love TV. Votes: 0

The trouble with going crazy is that you have to go around making it up to everyone afterwards. It seems they should be making something up to you. Votes: 0

I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices. Votes: 0

I know how to make an audience laugh, 'cause I grew up on Third Rock from the Sun, week after week in front of audiences, making them laugh. Votes: 0

She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are what's making her strong. Votes: 0

Making changes in the fast food that makes up such a significant part of the American diet, even if the numbers aren't impressive, will have important health up sides. Votes: 0

It seems so tragic to me that so many filmmakers are making movies up against this extra-ordinary revolution with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs. Votes: 0

Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money. Votes: 0

Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals. Votes: 0

A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough. Votes: 0

Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams! Votes: 0

The future is completely open and so is the past. And we are writing them right now. Making a different past or future is only up to us now. Votes: 0

Whether writing fiction or nonfiction, I've never had the sense I was 'making up' a character. It feels more like watching people reveal themselves, ever more deeply, more intimately. Votes: 0

Your better life is as close and as easy as making the choice to pick up your Bible each day, open it up, and let God speak to you. Votes: 0

... any men who would give up the law-making power to women in order to remedy existing evils, would surely be those most ready to enact the needful laws themselves. Votes: 0

The movies have got more corporate, they're making fewer movies in general, and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen. Votes: 0

For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all. Votes: 0

Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands. Votes: 0

Three or four years ago, I got really caught up in the movies people were making, the opportunities they were getting, and I was looking at them with bitterness. Votes: 0

It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material. Votes: 0

It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on. Votes: 0

I would never say no to anything that sounded interesting! The thing I like about making films is that the adventure just begins when you pick up the camera. Votes: 0

By 'expecting nothing' you are not 'giving up.' Far from it! You are making a decision to focus on what needs to be done rather than on outcomes. Votes: 0

Being a kid myself, I loved playing and I loved playing with words, and making up things and riddles and songs and not afraid of being silly in public. Votes: 0

Your past doesn't define you. Only your present and your future. If your life is screwed up, stop making excuses. What are you going to do about it today? Votes: 0

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky. Votes: 0

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation. Votes: 0

I believe in choosing the hardest book imaginable. I believe in reading up on what others have to say about this difficult book, and then making up my own mind. Votes: 0

As a kid, I liked making up stories, and I wrote a story about a kangaroo and a bat with Christy Chang, and she went on to become a surgeon. Votes: 0

I have long been in favor of states and cities within states making up their own minds whether or not they want to permit fracking. I have been supportive of that. Votes: 0

A dog – a collie – went up to Eric, looked up at his face, and growled. “Shoo,” Eric said, making an imperious gesture with his hand. Votes: 0

I felt impelled to write. It felt demonic, and I wanted to improve, the way some people habitually pick up a guitar and get better at playing it and making up songs. Votes: 0

We've got customers. We've got suppliers. We've got employees. We've got unions. We've got communities. We've got all of these things that go into making up whether a business succeeds or fails. Votes: 0

I could always imagine more interesting places to be than where I was. And more interesting people than me being there. Eventually, this led to making up stories and writing things down. Votes: 0

We're not making up merit scores for ourselves. We're making up merit scores so that we can be reborn in a situation where we can really live to benefit ourselves and others. Votes: 0

As far as subject matter, I'd say most of the songs aren't that personal to me. I love making up characters and kind of having fun in a different kind of way. Votes: 0

Nothing about it interested me. Or about anything else, except making up stories. If literacy weren't so nearly universal, God knows what I'd be. A drain on the State, I shouldn't wonder. Votes: 0

Making up characters and places and plots, unlike fixing your plumbing or doing dishes, is anything but practical or rational. I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. Votes: 0

Fire may be the simplest and sometimes the only recourse in protecting yourself from the discomfort of cold, counteracting the effects of hypothermia, or in making up for inadequate clothing, bedding, or shelter. Votes: 0

When you are lonely, writing can keep you company. It is also a form of self-compensation, a way of making up for things"”as opposed to making things up"”that did not quite happen. Votes: 0

Makeup should have one function only - to make you look better, to make you more attractive...Makeup is a luxury, so it should be fun...Making up is like telling yourself a secret. Votes: 0

True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't say no - but I'm giving you a definite maybe. Votes: 0

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it. Votes: 0

I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn't get the life you wanted. Votes: 0

My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me. Votes: 0

Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up a world where my needs wouldn´t exist at all. Votes: 0

My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop for Larry King's TV show. There's an 'I-want-to-do-all-things-at-once' kind of theme to it. Votes: 0