Quotes About Made up

To me," Jun Do said, "what everybody gets wrong about ghosts in the notion that they're dead. In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range.

I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

A cascade of Titian hair rippled down her back. Her face had that almost shocking air of nudity that a woman's has nowadays when it is not made up at all.

I had a great chemistry teacher and found it really interesting to learn how things are made up and how they work.

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There's no such place.

scratch units made up of raw draftees, many of whom were so ignorant they didn't even know the name of the country they were invading.

I am amused by cricket because it seems to take longer than baseball and I like that. It seems like a sport I could have made up it - it takes several days to play and everyone wears sweaters. I can't confess to knowing what's going on at all.

Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

In 'Bush v. Gore,' five justices had a partisan outcome in mind and then made up the judicial principle to justify it, while claiming that the decision would not be precedent for any future cases.

Till at last the child's mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestions is the child's mind. And not the child's mind only. The adult's mind too—all his life long. The mind that judges and desires and decides—made up of these suggestions. But all these suggestions are our suggestions!

The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as 'fiction' and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called 'nonfiction' strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things.

What that song? I ast. Sound low down dirty to me. Like what the preacher tells you its sin to hear. Not to mention sing. She hum a little more. Something come to me, she say. Something I made up. Something you help scratch out my head.

When we arrive at the conclusion that our physiological vehicle is made up of the same stuff as the rest of the universe, and these folks bump up against the notion that what animates the body is a form of energy—the same 99.99999 percent "nothing" that constitutes the physical universe—they either shrug and walk away or come to realize that there is something to this notion that a unifying principle pervades all of physical reality.

known as the middle." He tipped his head. "Yes. What about you? Big family?" "No. I'm an only child." It was part of the backstory she'd made up before coming to the island; it was also partly true. "I used to wish I had a big family." "It's not all it's cracked up to be," he said dryly. "A lot of noise and chaos." "And love," she suggested, feeling an ache that went deep into her

But that's what he did, and if he has made up his mind to be idiotishly noble – Yes, it is going to be very difficult. I must think!

A time will come when people will think I am a myth, or rather something the newspapers have made up.

A retarded daughter told contradictory tales of sexual abuse by her step-brother and other male relatives… So here we have a girl who probably made up the story in the first place.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the first time I met you. You have a strong gaze, as if you have made up your mind about something. To tell you the truth, I myself carry such things around inside. Heavy things. That is how I can see it in you.

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

I auditioned for the role of an angel in the Nativity play at school. I didn't get it. I auditioned for Mary; didn't get it. So I made up the character of the sheep who sat next to Baby Jesus.

No, I'll dream another dream," he said. "I've made up so many things, now I'll just go into one. I'll be part of it.

Claudia's monotone had…softened. Emotions were now threaded through her voice, tying together her words. Were these emotions real? Or were they made up?

I made up my mind that I will do fiction in films and non-fiction in TV.