Making Up Quotes - Page 3

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

  Paul Vixie

  Thinking, Acronyms, Obscure

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• You truly need to witness me goo-gooing and coo-cooing and making up goofy little songs to glean a full appreciation of how nauseating I can be. This is another instance where things seemingly don't add up - how can this vile, hateful, violent, misogynist, racist, loathsome, repugnant, worthless, reprehensible subhuman be so insanely tender and kind to little doggies and kitty-cats?

  Jim Goad

  Song, Appreciation, Cat

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• 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.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Benefits, Merit, Score

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• I never met David Kelly, but I knew from what he told other people that this was not his view. The BBC were saying that Tony Blair was making up lies so that he could send young men and women to war, maybe to die. I think that if the BBC had done their jobs professionally, they'd have realised that you couldn't justify what they said. And nothing has emerged since to justify that report.

  Alastair Campbell

  Jobs, Lying, War

  "Alastair Campbell on spin, Iraq and a recurring nightmare about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown". Interview with Simon Kelner, www.independent.co.uk. March 25, 2016.

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• I have a friend who's collecting unemployment insurance. This guy has never worked so hard in his life as he has to keep this thing going. He's down there every week, waiting on the lines and getting interviewed and making up all these lies about looking for jobs. If they had any idea of the effort and energy that he is expending to avoid work, I'm sure they'd give him a raise.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Jobs, Lying, Ideas

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• 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.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Fun, Makeup, Should Have

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• We all love to sing along with our favorite songs. We sing in the car, in the shower, and at the karaoke bar. The problem is that half the time we don't know what we're singing. We're making up lyrics as we go along and hoping no one will notice.

  Shawn Amos

  Song, Car, Singing

  “'Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy' & Other Misheard Lyrics" by Shawn Amos, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2009.

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• Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Stories, World, Forests

  Scott Westerfeld (2008). “Pretties”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• You're kidding," Shane said. "Do you think I want to visit Crazy McTeeth in his lair of insanity?" "No," Claire said, "but I'm pretty sure you won't like it if I go alone when I just kind of promised to be with you. So...?" "Right. I've been missing Nutty McFang anyway." "Stop making up names for him." "What about Count Crackula?" "Just stop.

  Rachel Caine

  Crazy, Thinking, Names

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires”, p.54, Penguin

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

  Saul Williams

  Rhyming, Rhyme

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• 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.

  Josh Billings

  Best Love, Fun, Lovers

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• I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?

  David Brooks

  Graduation, Emotional, Heads Or Tails

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• I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

  George Orwell

  Lonely, Children, Ambition

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Air, Ideas

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1162, Manonmani Publishers

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

  David Levithan

  Memories, Thinking, Brain

  David Levithan (2011). “Every You, Every Me”, p.102, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

  Michael Scott

  Long, Adults, Sophie

  Michael Scott (2012). “The First Codex”, p.25, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end.

  Philip Pullman

  Lying, Reality, Oxford

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• Right. I’ve been missing Nutty McFang anyway.” “Stop making up names for him.” “What about Count Crackula?” “Just stop.

  Rachel Caine

  Names, Missing, Nutty

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires”, p.54, Penguin

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

  James A. Owen

  Thinking, Get Better, Said

  James A. Owen (2015). “Dawn of the Dragons: Here, There Be Dragons; The Search for the Red Dragon”, p.672, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

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• The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new lyrics.

  Rob Sheffield

  Girl, Strong, Boys

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.30, Crown Archetype

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• Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women's Society Club had been about supporting one another, about banding together to protect one another because no one else would. But it had turned into an ugly beast, a means by which rich ladies would congratulate themselves by giving money to the poor. And Agatha had let it happen. All her life, it seemed, she was making up for things she let happen.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Girl, Silly, Mean

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.43, Bantam

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• What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to the hills. Most of the time we decide the critical things while looking at the linoleum floor of an institutional corridor, or whispering hurriedly in a waiting room with a television blatting nonsense.

  Thomas Harris

  Eye, Waiting Rooms, Mind

  Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”

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• I’d missed him so much, it almost hurt. It started the moment I left the Keep and nagged at me all day. Every day I had to fight with myself to keep from making up bullshit reasons to call the Keep so I could hear his voice. My only saving grace was that Curran wasn’t handling this whole mating thing any better. Yesterday he’d called me at the office claiming that he couldn’t find his socks. We talked for two hours.

  Ilona Andrews

  Hurt, Fighting, Two

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.81, Penguin

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• 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

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