Making

Famous quotes containing the word making:

““Mankind is getting smarter every day.” Actually, it only seems so. “At least we are making progress.” We’re progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“So, laying his cheek against the dresser’s wooden one,
He died making up stories, the ones
Not every child wanted to listen to.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“It is not, truly speaking, the labour that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men—broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)