Up Quotes

• It's crazy in just the difference it makes turning up to sound check without a hangover.

  

  Ladyhawke
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Hangover

• The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Words
  • Vision

• What most surprises me about Brazil is the extent of the difficulties that we create for ourselves. We create a lot of legislation to control the Brazilian state itself, that this ends up meaning that things don't go with the speed any head of government would like.

  

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
  • Up
  • Control

• I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.

  

  Christian Bale
  • Up
  • Good
  • Superhero

• Years ago, I was asked to come up to do a store signing in Vermont. The short version is the two younger guys who own the store pick me up at the airport and start driving me around Vermont, showing me the sights and the textile mills and the restaurants, and the punchline is there's no store. There is no store!

  

  Mark Waid
  • Up
  • Driving

• I know what it's like to be brought up by actors and writers.

  

  Abi Morgan
  • Up

• I feel like the networks always end up doing similar stuff at the same time.

  

  Kellie Martin
  • Up
  • Time

• I am very into making up my own rules.

  

  Amy Schumer
  • Up

• I'm suffering from the worst anxiety. I wake up reeling from panic at 4 A.M.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Suffering
  • Anxiety
  • Worst

• To wind up in Cooperstown is surreal for me. To go into the Hall of Fame is one thing. When you think of all the other Yankees that are in here, it's pretty special. This is just a shrine. To visit it, much less be inducted, it's still sort of unbelievable to me.

  

  Joe Torre
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Wind

• I always think the great thing about shirting is that it goes with jeans, and jeans are probably the most modern, functional garment that ever existed. That is what is so great about shirting - it is an up-play-down-play.

  

  Jonathan Anderson
  • Up
  • Great

• I was with my band at a karaoke bar in Japan when it was very big there, and they got up and made fools of themselves without practicing properly. I didn't understand why they were doing that. It was like they were making fun of the genre by performing badly. But I didn't get up and sing, so I don't know what it feels like.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Why
  • Fun
  • Band

• In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one.

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • Nice
  • Morning
  • Goals

• No one can tell you the rules of 'Celebrity Apprentice.' No one. Donald Trump just does what he wants, which is mostly pontificating to people who are sucking up to him, while the network people try to manipulate him into making the highest-rated show they can.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • People
  • Trump
  • Celebrity

• We're not up there in space just to joyride around. We're up there to do things that are of value to everybody right here on Earth.

  

  John Glenn
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Value

• If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • Trying
  • Perfect
  • City

• London seems to be a town with a lot of comedy fans and people that really enjoy stand-up.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • People
  • Comedy
  • London

• Michael: 'Hey, remember when I almost didn't let you into the house that first day you came?' Claire: 'Yep' Michael: 'Well, I was dead wrong. Maybe I never said that out loud before, but I mean it, Claire. All that's happened since... we wouldn't have made it. Not me, not Shane, not Eve. Not without you.' Claire: 'It's not me. It's not! It's us, that's all. We're just better together. We... take care of each other.' Shane: 'Stop vamping up my girl, man. She needs coffee.' Michael: 'Don't we all. Vamping up your girl? Dude. That's low.' Shane: 'Digging for China. Come on.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Remember
  • Together

• If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

  

  LeBron James
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Opportunity

• Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Up
  • Growing

• I want to ride my motorcycle up the side of the Luxor to the light and vanish.

  

  Criss Angel
  • Up
  • Light
  • Motorcycle

• Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind....He arrived in our lives as an alien but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Alien

• All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of your life at a distance.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • Life
  • Live
  • Distance

• The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values.... Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Environment

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