Famous quotes containing the word making:
“Look, were all the same; a man is a fourteen-room housein the bedroom hes asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room hes rolling around with some bareass girl, in the library hes paying his taxes, in the yard hes raising tomatoes, and in the cellar hes making a bomb to blow it all up.”
—Arthur Miller (b. 1915)
“I take enormous pleasure every time I see something that Ive done that cannot be wiped out. In some way ... I guess its a protest against mortality. But its been so much fun! Its the curiosity that drives me. Its making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever giving up.”
—Deborah Meier (b. 1931)
“Say what you will, making marriage work is a womans business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as suchas a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal associationthe going will be hard indeed.”
—Phyllis McGinley (19051978)