Up Quotes

• Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

  

  Martin Jacques
  • Different
  • American
  • Future

• Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.'

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Up
  • Risk

• Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by MGM topper Louie Mayer and his newly formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which was itself, back in the day, nothing but a front organization to discourage unionizing.

  

  John Ridley
  • Picture
  • Organization
  • Achievement

• I am a feminist. Women are discriminated against in so many ways, and they make up half the population.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Up
  • Women
  • Feminist

• I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be' this person, you know? So then its like, if I'm really this person, how can I be in the moment if I know there's just one line I'm supposed to say? It doesn't feel natural. I always just kind of want to say whatever comes up.

  

  Amy Sedaris
  • Up
  • Weird

• When I grew up, there was one music: rock n' roll. Somewhere along the line, there was a separation. I don't know why it happened, but it did happen.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Music
  • Why
  • Rock

• The moon was up, painting the world silver, making things look just a little more alive.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • World
  • Painting
  • Looks

• I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

  

  Martin Freeman
  • Up
  • Disappointment

• As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • Up

• Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don't take votes. We just don't vote on quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, why the sky is blue, or anything else.

  

  Alan Stern
  • Time
  • Why
  • Science

• You can sit around and complain that Hollywood doesn't make any good movies. But you can generate your own material. So I read books. I come up with ideas. I was the producer on 'The Woodsman' to help get that off the ground. Sometimes that extends itself to directing.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Up
  • Good
  • Help

• I have to tell you, it's very boring, but before I did yoga, I was a stand-up comedian who can't stand up. And now I can stand on my head.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • Up
  • Yoga

• It is only natural that people's wishes and aspirations should be realized by the leaders of the region. As this wind of change blows, it is up to the leaders to seize this opportunity to look for the better future for their own people through bold reforms before it is too late, before the people are forced to take action.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• Anyone who has ever tried to plot a detective mystery knows that the hardest thing to come up with is motive.

  

  Elif Batuman
  • Up

• But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

  

  Jim Capaldi
  • Up
  • Song
  • Lyrics

• I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Alone
  • Religious
  • Emotional

• I only finish probably one out of every ten things I start. I give up all the time.

  

  Owen King
  • Up
  • Time

• Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Up

• There are still places to go, there are still dinners, there are still parties, and you can still get dressed up. That's part of having fun in fashion.

  

  Christian Siriano
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Fashion

• After I built up a following on Instagram, I realized it's a good way to talk to your fans. I always try to keep the conversation going - they're really happy when that happens.

  

  Lucky Blue Smith
  • Up
  • Good
  • Happy

• I've barfed in movies before. It seems like it always ends up being Campbell's soup mixed with something else.

  

  Adam Scott
  • Up

• The whole notion of never growing up is incredibly intense and emotional.

  

  John Tiffany
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Emotional

• People get so riled up, and they wanna fight shows, but all they have to do is turn it off, and you see what happens? The show goes off. That's all you have to do. You don't have to fight anybody. You don't have to hold up signs.

  

  Kendra Wilkinson
  • People
  • Up

• He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you're going to die in about five minutes.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Die

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