An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.
Edward de Bono

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
Dean Koontz

Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.
Nancy Reagan

We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
Yo-Yo Ma

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
Steve Irwin

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.
Fran Lebowitz

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it.
Snoop Dogg

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.
Elizabeth Taylor

To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
Otto von Bismarck

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
Garrison Keillor

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
George Santayana

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses - makes more money for me than making movies.
Jackie Chan

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.
Benjamin Disraeli

Civilization is the making of civil persons.
John Ruskin

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.
John Ruskin

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
Ray Bradbury

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.
William James

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.
E. Stanley Jones

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.
Lawrence Halprin