Made It Quotes - Page 5

• Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.

  Kevin Eubanks

  Brother, Dad, Gold

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• It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.

  Vera Farmiga

  Men, Thinking, Two

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• When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument that the film industry needs funding.

  Julian Fellowes

  Jobs, Cutting, Insecure

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• Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.

  Joshua Foer

  Photography, Memories, Technology

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• By the time we've made it, we've had it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Time, Time Management, Made

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• Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

  Jamie Foxx

  Mother, Daughter, Made

  "Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez and Carlos Saldanha Interview RIO". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 31, 2011.

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• The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimono, it's like a toga. It doesn't have buttons or zippers. What made it different was that it was jersey; therefore, it was close to the body and it was a print.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Zippers, Buttons, Dresses

  "Diane von Furstenberg On Wrap Dresses And The Joys Of Aging Gracefully". Interview with Amanda Christine Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  Lady Gaga

  Art, Thinking, People

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• Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.

  Noel Gallagher

  Boys, Oasis, Made

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• Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.

  George Galloway

  Order, President, Als

  "Thom Hartmann: IV with British MP George Galloway". Interview with Thom Hartmann, www.scoop.co.nz. May 30, 2005.

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• Every single major push in education has made it worse and right now it's really bad because everything we've done is de-humanizing education. It's destroying the possibility of the teacher and the student having a warm, friendly, intellectual relationship.

  William Glasser

  Teacher, Intellectual, Friendly

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• To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

  Martha Graham

  Beautiful, Dance, Men

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• All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

  Sammy Hagar

  Way, Different, Would Be

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• America's strength has made it a sort of Gulliver in world affairs: By wiggling its toes it can, often inadvertently, break the arm of a Lilliputian.

  Mohsin Hamid

  America, World, Arms

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• I don't think I've ever had a mentor. The closest thing is my friend Christopher Fowler, another writer. Chris kept me sane for a long time before I made it.

  Joanne Harris

  Thinking, Long, Mentor

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• My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Doe

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• When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Travel, Space, Far Away

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin

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• I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Stars, Law, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think that France has not made it clear enough recently to our German friends how important it is to introduce euro bonds as a tool against speculation. And how the necessary budget discipline needs to be accompanied by growth.

  Francois Hollande

  Thinking, Discipline, Growth

  "French Presidential Candidate Hollande 'They'll Have to Listen to Me'". Interview with Mathieu von Rohr and Romain Leick, www.spiegel.de. March 12, 2012.

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• Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

  Buddy Holly

  Music, Redneck, Made

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• Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wish, Next, Anticipation

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1840). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.487

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• I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

  Caroline Kennedy

  Life, Mother, Courage

  "Kennedy says 9/11, Obama led her to public service" by Larry Neumeister, www.foxnews.com. December 26, 2008.

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• When Harvard men say they have graduated from Radcliffe, then we've made it.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Made, Harvard

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• Yippee! I can't believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I'm so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I'm relieved to be 40 years old, and I've lived a life.

  Nicole Kidman

  Believe, Years, Long

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from May 14, 2013

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• I made it, Ma - Carnegie Hall. And I didn't have to practice.

  Alan King

  Practice, Carnegie, Made

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