Andy Warhol

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

American Artist

Matt Sydal

So I always respected the guys who were trying to do it on their own without taking a handout from a big organization. They were trying to create their own thing, the DIY style, which is sort of always been my style, kind of a makeshift survival mode and really just kind of forging your own path.

American Wrestler

Spike Milligan

We come across thirty or so hurried graves with makeshift wooden markers. 'Private Edwards, E.', a number, and that was all. Fourteen days ago he was alive, thinking feeling, hoping... If war was a game of cards, I'd say someone was cheating.

Irish Comedian

Kate Nash

One day when I was 14 I put together a makeshift CV and walked into this weird boutique in Pinner, near where I lived, to ask if they needed a Saturday assistant. They didn't, but the owner took me on anyway.

English Musician

Janet Echelman

As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.

Sam Abell

My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

American Photographer

Emily Hampshire

When you're working as an actor when you're younger, or even when you're older, it's carney life. You go from one show to the other and you make these quick makeshift families.

Canadian Actress

Joseph Barbera

Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.

American Cartoonist

Anne Tyler

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.

American Novelist

King Krule

I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.

The term 'makeshift' suggests a solution created swiftly due to urgent need.

Urgency Implied

'Makeshift' means the solution is not meant for long-term use.

Temporary Nature

A 'makeshift' item shows resourcefulness, using what's on hand creatively.

Ad hoc Creativity

A 'makeshift' can represent something else, fulfilling its basic function.

Representation

A 'makeshift' serves a similar purpose as the item it replaces.

Functional Substitute

A 'makeshift' is often an improvised solution, born out of necessity.

Improvised Solution

 Everyone has cried at the kitchen table, at least once. Some of us several times. And then, there are the students. I've seen students participate in class from the breakroom at work, where they are frontline for minimum wage to help their families. They've attended a makeshift funeral in the morning

Nora Flanagan: What...

 the terms and conditions of communication, it not only broadens our horizon, it allows us to look behind the regulations that limit our worldview, our specific social, political or aesthetic conventions. Let's look at an actual example. The fate of people living in the makeshift settlements

Art That Lets You Talk...

 thousands of families looking for work began flocking to the site. The earliest arrivals lived in a makeshift encampment called Ragtown. With no infrastructure, scarce supplies, and little protection from the elements, several residents died of heatstroke. So to better house workers,

Blood, concrete, and...

 in order to secure legal protection for it and keep intruders out two of our scouts to our lead Scouts caught a glimpse of two naked indigenous people dashing across a makeshift bridge it was actually a log that had dropped across the river from one side and another one

The Unconquered:...

 These features could help us decide whether a location was a camp or not. As we investigated further, we realized that the camp's program had evolved away from the early days of makeshift camps in former schools and hospitals, and had become more permanent,

How Data-Driven...

 someone came and helped her but you know just that the loss the palpable devastation of seeing something like that and this little girl she's lost her parents this wasn't a makeshift shelter

Alison Wright: Portraits...

 and that's a strong motivation. And I have no trouble imagining that after spending weeks or even months as a second-grade citizen, living on the streets or in a horrible makeshift camp

Two Nameless Bodies...

 I'm never going to understand what happened to my sister but my hands are tired of gripping a makeshift reasoning I created to try and make order it was in those months following Leia's

Life is messy. Embrace...

 other scientific instruments and by the time he gets back into the hut that's what his hood and face look like most of the work was man hauling sledges with makeshift sails to help and

Alone on the Ice: The...

 ahead to plant these makeshift animals we're gonna make our way down to where we've put the animal decoys and see how