Up Quotes
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I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence.
Marilynne Robinson
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I've had a great passion for video games for as long as I can remember. Growing up, 'The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time' was one of my all-time favorites. My brother and I ran up quite a bill calling the 1-900 numbers for tips on those games before the Internet provided game guides.
Megan Ellison
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It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.
George Muller
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We want to open digg up to just about anyone and everyone that wants to express their interest in any type of news story or Web content.
Kevin Rose
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I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.
Marlo Thomas
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I speak French, and I grew up with French, so my English is Franglais.
Corneille Ewango
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By calling him humourless I mean to impugn his seriousness, categorically: such a man must rig up his probity ex nihilo.
Martin Amis
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We worry so much about what people think of us and so we often don't stand up for what we believe in. And some people literally give their life for what they believe in. As a Christian, that is something I really admire. I want to be a part of spreading that message.
Sadie Robertson
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I have a hard time waking up. No alarm clock works! It sounds childish, but I seriously have my manager, my mom or a buddy of mine wake me up if I have to be somewhere. It's a serious issue! I've been very late for some serious gigs because of it!
Jesse McCartney
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As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure.
Lisa Ling
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We're all Vanilla Ice. Look at Girl Talk and Danger Mouse. Look at William Burroughs, whose cut-up books antedate hip hop sampling by decades. Shakespeare remixed passages of Holinshed's 'Chronicles' in 'Henry VI.' Tchaikovsky's '1812 Overture' embeds the French national anthem.
David Shields
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I grew up in San Fransisco in a very liberal community. My environment was very, very open and very liberal.
Jeffrey Tambor
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If you at any point forget that Wookiees aren't real, it's time to come up for air.
Claudia Gray
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One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.
Gene Robinson
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For me from a pretty young age up until about 21 years old hallucinogenics had a huge place in my life.
Jon Fishman
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Live in the moment, day by day, and don't stress about the future. People are so caught up in looking into the future, that they kind of lose what's in front of them.
Jenna Ushkowitz
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I basically gave up my dream of becoming a mom.
Mayte Garcia
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I'm a big believer that an actor should be able to pick up any piece of material and act it, the way a good musician can.
Martin Landau
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I had an audition for Mary Jane Watson in 'Spiderman' and ended up playing Betty Brant in that series. I auditioned for Amy Adams' role in 'Catch Me If You Can' and, you know, ended up playing the bank teller. So there were a lot of times early on where I felt like I was always sort of the bridesmaid, never the bride - never quite right.
Elizabeth Banks
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Young players are starting to come up as well and they will see me as one of the older, experienced ones.
Caroline Wozniacki
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We lived in a ghetto. I could have pretended I was hard or tough and not a square. I wound up not getting in trouble. I don't consider myself to be especially wise, but I will say that it's pretty clear that some people want to get out and some people don't. I wanted out.
Andre Braugher
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It's important to stand up for what you believe in.
Cody Linley
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What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.
Barack Obama
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I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison.
Frank Abagnale