Up Quotes

• Sometimes you need conflict in order to come up with a solution. Through weakness, oftentimes, you can't make the right sort of settlement, so I'm aggressive, but I also get things done, and in the end, everybody likes me.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Up
  • Done

• I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Family
  • Father
  • Strong

• I'm really an outdoorsy girl. People think I can't go anywhere without getting all primped up, but I love to go camping, and I'm totally fine with not doing my hair or makeup, not taking a shower and just hiking.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Girl
  • Hair

• Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Time

• I was a big fan of Kurt Russell growing up and I always wanted to be the modern day Kurt Russell.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Growing
  • Fans
  • Wanted

• I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.

  

  Diana Ross
  • World
  • Real
  • Nature

• There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Character
  • Education
  • Community

• Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Children
  • Freedom

• I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Past
  • Thought
  • End

• Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Age
  • Wise
  • Annoying

• The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Hope
  • College
  • Vampire

• Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Habit
  • Start
  • Improvement

• People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Up
  • Tree

• I lived near Arthur's Seat when I lived in Edinburgh. It was the perfect playground as a child. I always have a wee run up there when I'm back.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Perfect
  • Always
  • Child

• The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.

  

  E. B. White
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Question

• I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Bad
  • Funny
  • Clothes

• Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Different
  • Children
  • Education

• When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • You
  • Try
  • Contract

• If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!

  

  Little Richard
  • Trying
  • Hate
  • Succeed

• I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.

  

  Don McLean
  • Up
  • Why
  • Singing

• My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Stand

• Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Remember
  • Rest

• I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did not know if I would get in. It was the year after the Challenger accident in 1987.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • School
  • Night
  • Year

1

2

3

4

5

...

1414

previous

next