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Quotes About Made-up

The thing I love about a blue drink is that it isn't pretending to be anything other than a prissy, made-up concoction for people who can't drink their whiskey straight. A cocktail with the courage of its lack of conviction.
~ William Lashner
Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
~ Steve Martin
Atlantis?' Jason asked. 'That's a myth,' Percy said. 'Uh...don't we deal in myths?' 'No, I mean it's a MADE-UP myth. Not like, an actual true myth.' 'So this is why Annabeth is the brains of the operation, huh?
~ Rick Riordan
I tend to write songs that are about something pretty specific. A lot of them tell some kind of little made-up story.
~ Adam Schlesinger
It's easy for me to look groomed, because I start the day on This Morning and have to be made up - so the rest of the day just follows from there.
~ Holly Willoughby
Newman King was a fictional figurehead, a made-up character.
~ Bentley Little
There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths.
~ Marion Barry
some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun.
~ Kaye Gibbons
You can always spot a 'television personality', even when they aren't actually on television, because they carry their 'made-up' persona in front of them, like some sort of baffler, or Ready Brek force field. Their reach for notoriety predicated on that fulsome mediocrity of talent detailed above has become frozen in their faces.
~ Will Self
Then she turns on the television, some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
This is where you must each make a prayer to Saint Vladmir-" We were at the final hatch. "Saint Vladmir…?" "I made up. He is the patron saint of smugglers. I smuggled him to heaven. Now let's see if he is appropriately grateful.
~ David Gerrold
Those who do not fight real evil, fight statues. Statues don't fight back, and they're immobile. You're not going to get hurt smashing a statue. So this is their big battle. Real evil? The Left is AWOL. They didn't fight Communism, they fought anti-Communism. They don't fight Islamism, they fight Islamophobia. Made-up evils are safer.
~ Dennis Prager
My cousin Georgia says that boys are like gazelles. She says the get alarmed when they get close to girls. And they have to leap off into the woods like gazelles in trousers. Or have I just made that up?
~ Louise Rennison
I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world. Then I just lap it up. There is no difference between Ripley from Alien and any Katherine Heigl character. They're all participating in the same level of made-up awesomeness, and I enjoy every second of it.
~ Mindy Kaling