To have the chance to see your music be elevated and to have almost universally positive response to that music makes me feel better every day. I feel more confident and inspired and that's fun.

That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle.

If you're not making mistakes then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he's always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics but that's what makes him Newt Gingrich.

That is why everyone in politics and we do it must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

Politics makes me sick.

The more that I know of politics the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof it is temporary expedient often wise in party politics almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

I'm looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long.

Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.

The more poetry you have in the head the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.

Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.

An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting unstable and interactive.

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.

What actually makes poetry poetry is of course impossible to define. We recognize it when we hear it when we see it but we can't define it.

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen but rarely what the poet wants.

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me I know that is poetry.

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

I have 23 top players and they are all ready to put on the jersey and work on the pitch and that makes you happy and then you have peace of mind.