Make Out Quotes

• The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out.

  Thomas Browne

  Years, World, Six

  Sir Thomas Browne, Leonard Cyril Martin (1964). “Religio medici, and other works”

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• Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of what you are. The very best.

  Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

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• I don't trust any camera you can't make out of wood.

  Paul Caponigro

  Cameras, Woods, Don't Trust

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• I never could make out what those damned dots meant.

  Lord Randolph Churchill

  Science, Dots

  "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" edited Elizabeth Knowles, Oxford University Press, 2004.

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• It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.

  Cass McCombs

  Differences, Advice, Insult

  "Cass McCombs: Cagey singer-songwriter coughs up a few words". Interview with Delfin Vigil, www.sfgate.com. November 22, 2007.

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• In the Year 2000 men will finally discover that the reason women go to the bathroom in pairs... is to make out.

  Conan O'Brien

  Men, Years, Pairs

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• You'll have to ask Bill that, Sookie. And this is the only reason we're going? You're not cleverly using this as an excuse to make out with me?" "I'm not that clever, Eric." "I think you deceive yourself, Sookie," Eric said with a brilliant smile.

  Charlaine Harris

  Clever, Thinking, Eric

  Charlaine Harris (2002). “Living Dead in Dallas: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.206, Penguin

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• I followed her into the library. The pale light from our chamber below dissipated in the room, but I could still make out – my heart leapt at the sight – row after row, shelf above shelf, floor to ceiling, a city of books. Speck turned to me and asked, Now, what shall we read first?

  Keith Donohue

  Book, Heart, Cities

  Keith Donohue (2011). “The Stolen Child”, p.88, Random House

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• It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That's what a family is. Also the storm at sea, the ship, and the unknown shore. And the hats and the whiskey stills that you make out of bamboo and coconuts. And the fire that you light to keep away the beasts.

  Michael Chabon

  Thanksgiving, Party, Fire

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• As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  California, Cold, Wasps

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

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• Whenever someone makes out a guest list, the people not on it become officially uninvited, and that makes them the enemies of the invited. Guest lists are just a way of choosing sides.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  People, Enemy, Guests

  E.L. Konigsburg (2010). “The View from Saturday”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old industrial parks ringing the old core of Atlanta.

  William Gibson

  Block, Home, White

  William Gibson (2016). “Neuromancer”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

  Mark Twain

  Kings, Fur, I Can

  Mark Twain (2015). “Tom Sawyer Collection: All Four Books”, p.276, Lulu.com

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• Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

  Leslie Feinberg

  Lgbt, Taught, Language

  Leslie Feinberg (1998). “Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue”, Beacon Pr

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• Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.

  Virginia Woolf

  Stories, Substance, Goes On

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1428, Delphi Classics

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• We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

  William Butler Yeats

  Poetry, Argument, Quarrels

  "Anima Hominis" (1924)

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• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

  Walter Bagehot

  People, Poverty, Anomalies

  Walter Bagehot (1944). “Literary Studies”

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• Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

  Bobby Darin

  Knives, Wells, Sooner Or Later

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• I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.

  Paris Hilton

  Sex, Kissing, Thinking

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• You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Sarcastic, Wife, Horny

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (2012). “Night and Silence, Who is Here?”, p.116, Pan Macmillan

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• I didn't tell Ôtani I love him because I want to make out with him. I just love him, that's all. And I want to be with him all the time, even if we're just goofing around and hanging out like we always are.

  Aya Nakahara

  I Love Him, Want, Goofing Around

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• The historian is terribly responsible to what he can discern are the facts of the case, but he's nothing if he doesn't make out a case.

  Howard Nemerov

  Facts, Responsible, Cases

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• 'Alias' was very action-packed. 'G.I. Joe' and 'Conan' were very action-packed. It's been established that I can do action, which is great, but now I may just want to make out with a really hot guy.

  Rachel Nichols

  Guy, Hot, May

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• In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.

  Vikram Seth

  Eye, Artist, Chinese

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• Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could be in the back and you could make out, you know? And you know how hot it was to make out.

  Steven Tyler

  Hot, Today, Bowling

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