Making Up Quotes - Page 5

• For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear in new forms and are songlike in their refrains and rhymes, making up a single monologue. We live permanently in the recurrence of our own stories, whatever story we tell.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Echoes, Glasses, Childhood

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Dec 05, 2011

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Marla Maples

  True Friend, People, Stories

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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I fall in love I take my time There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why.

  Jason Mraz

  Falling In Love, Shining, Mind

  Song: The Remedy

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Rick Moody

  Believe, Book, Reading

  5 Copy quote

• You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.

  King Edward VIII

  Country, Kings, Years

  Broadcast, 11 Dec. 1936, in The Times 12 Dec. 1936

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about.

  C. S. Lewis

  Simple, People, Simplicity

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.126, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Hunter Hayes

  Writing, Gears, Stuff

  8 Copy quote

• A complete autobiography would indeed be a picture of the outer and inner universe photographed upon one little life's consciousness. For does not the whole world, seen and unseen, go to the making up of every human being?

  Lucy Larcom

  Unseen, Doe, World

  4 Copy quote

• Some jobs are worse than actual wives. Ad agency vs. Matrimony, for instance: Even the most capricious and demanding spouse is not going to divorce you for refusing to spend forty hours a week making up lies about toilet paper.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs, Lying, Humorous

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.42, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Running, Real, Media

  4 Copy quote

• I think the biggest pushback comes from people who perceive me to be a threat. Having bloggers who are dedicated to making up false information about you, having anonymous people write nasty emails and letters, having organizations file legal requests for your work-related emails, and all the other things that happen can be very depressing and discouraging.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Depressing, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Carrie Underwood

  Song, Fun, Character

  10 Copy quote

• If Americans loved judicial activism, liberals wouldn't be lying about what it is. Judicial activism means making up constitutional rights in order to strike down laws the justices don't like based on their personal preferences. It's not judicial activism to strike down laws because they violate the Constitution.

  Ann Coulter

  Lying, Mean, Rights

  5 Copy quote

• People should be allowed to express their opinion. But, Americans need to know I'll be making up my mind based upon the latest intelligence and how best to protect our own country, plus our friends and allies.

  George W. Bush

  Country, People, Mind

  "Bush defends planning on Iraq", www.cnn.com. August 16, 2002.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I dislike that premise implies that a fiction writer is incapable of dreaming up stories that can bring readers to tears, that if you are lucky enough to be living a pretty sedate life ,as I am, you've got nothing worthy of writing about, that you're incapable of making a reader's gut wrench.Frankly, that's what makes readers nervous, the sorcery of you or me or any good fiction writer making up characters who feel like real people, of telling a story that feels true but isn't.

  Leslie Pietrzyk

  Dream, Real, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The great thing about literature is that you're making up your own interpretation of the character anyway. Also, you're given basically a bible of who a character is and you're kind of shooting yourself in the foot if you're not reading it.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Reading, Character, Literature

  10 Copy quote

• I think we live in a country where self-mythology or making up legends about your own life is something everyone does.

  Iris Smyles

  Country, Thinking

  "The Misadventures of Iris Smyles". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love, first of all, reading and discovering what the common perception is and then trying to figure out... well, how does your life cross over into that character, or what's an angle on this that might challenge the status quo? It's just a great journey as well as an education. You're constantly being educated - it's like I'm back at school and making up for lost time.

  Andy Serkis

  Reading, School, Character

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cities, Long, Mind

  Source: www.9news.com

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I just recorded in studios, you know, people pressed the buttons for me. So I just started recording the bass lines and guitar parts with my voice, covering classical pieces, or just making up melodies so I could learn how to use it.

  Petra Haden

  Guitar, Voice, People

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• They [the Travelers] know everything about the year that they're coming into. But you can know everything and still be tripped up by the little stuff that you didn't notice. And one character's Facebook page is made up of lies. It's an interesting comment on what's been going on the last few months. We cannot rely anymore on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram. People are making up their own truths.

  Eric McCormack

  Lying, Character, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a morning "spinner." That's usually when my brain is thinking too much and I don't necessarily see things positively. So I sit myself down and remember that I'm making it up. I believe we are creating in every moment - making up our reality, so to speak - so when anything gets chaotic or I feel spun out, I remind myself that everything is an interpretation. I can look at it differently and make it work for me in a more positive light.

  Dash Mihok

  Morning, Believe, Reality

  "Dash Mihok Interview: Maranda Pleasant". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's hard to think back. I didn't even know I was going to do it, make actual records. But I was always making up songs, once I figured out that you could do it. I think it's pretty much the same, but there's less urge to get it moving out there. There was a time when it seemed like it was really super important to the audience and now it's just medium-important for people to like us. But that's okay.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Moving, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I remember I was really into this British band, The Vapors, with that song "Turning Japanese." I thought that they were really next level genius cryptic weirdos. And then I realized when I got older they are just using a lot of British words, and I didn't know what they meant. But I thought, Oh, they are making up their own language.

  Craig Finn

  Song, Next Level, Band

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source