Up Quotes

• You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and, boo-hiss, everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.

  

  John Joseph Lydon
  • Up

• Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.

  

  Amy Bloom
  • Up
  • Training

• Jean Toomer is a phantom of the Harlem Renaissance. Pick up any general study of the literature written by Afro-Americans, and there is the name of Jean Toomer. In biographies and memoirs of Harlem Renaissance figures, his name is invoked as if he had been one of the sights along Lenox Avenue.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • Up
  • Study
  • Literature

• But you know, it isn't designed. Love just shows up and you go, 'Oh, wow, this is going to be a hayride and a half.'

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Up

• When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.

  

  Bruce Forsyth
  • Up

• I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Morning

• I am conscious about not getting typecast, but obviously I have to keep picking up great roles so that I don't get typecast.

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Up
  • Great

• As a man of colour, I've spent my life asking people to see me for who I am. With Obama in the White House, it feels like people have finally caught up to where I've been most of my life.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • People
  • Life
  • House

• People who never get anxious always amaze me. The world could be breaking up, and they're saying, 'Everything's fine!'

  

  Lena Headey
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together To make up a year, And a sphere.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Up
  • Together
  • Taken

• I was unable to sleep and I would stay up and draw these little cartoons. Then a friend showed them around. Before I knew it I was a cartoonist.

  

  Lynda Barry
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Sleep

• The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.

  

  Dominique Moceanu
  • Time
  • Career
  • Summer

• Flossin' is a term like when you're 'fly.' It's like, 'I floss. I walk around with my head up; no one can touch me.'

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Fly

• D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.

  

  Bryce Harper
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• Social media and technology are democratising and opening up fashion and the process of fashion for all - this has good and bad sides, but that comes with any change.

  

  Edward Enninful
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Technology

• Every moment you wake up and you want to go for a run, or you want to take a class, you should be able to just go.

  

  Payal Kadakia
  • Up

• My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty.

  

  Cindy Gallop
  • Up

• I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • Up
  • Money

• For me, moving is always a big opportunity. It's just a enough of a shift in outlook that every time I move, it seems to open something up.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Moving

• When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Done
  • Black
  • Wind

• There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.

  

  Dikembe Mutombo
  • People
  • Up
  • Dying

• Life has a great deal up its sleeve.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I grew up in Palm Springs, California, which is a suburb like a desert town, and I love it.

  

  Alia Shawkat
  • Up
  • California
  • Desert

• I curl up inside and freeze when I have to act. I much prefer sitting on the sidelines and trying to get the best out of other people.

  

  Mel Ferrer
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

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