Up Quotes

• I will not lose, for even in defeat/There's a valuable lesson learned, so it evens up for me

  

  Jay-Z
  • Lessons
  • Defeat
  • Valuable

• I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

  

  Dean Martin
  • People
  • Good
  • Morning

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

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Time

• I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I've just kind of backed off a little.

  

  Elvis Stojko
  • World
  • Trying
  • Champion

• I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

  

  Will Smith
  • Book
  • Space
  • Fly

• Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls - you don't find a sense of community in malls.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Up
  • Community

• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Give

• 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

• As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.

  

  Dita Von Teese
  • Women
  • Girl
  • Small

• I don't think guys judge curvy women as much as women do. It shocks me how catty some women can be. In my whole life, I only had one guy break up with me over weight.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Life
  • Women
  • Guy

• I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television show with Asian characters, I would go out of my way to avoid them, because they portrayed all Asians as either ridiculously good or ridiculously bad; you know, the whole Charlie Chan-Fu Manchu thing.

  

  David Henry Hwang
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Bad

• Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.

  

  Beverley Mitchell
  • Heart
  • Growing
  • Moving

• What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the Cold War?

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Important
  • War

• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Yourself
  • Cheer
  • Best Way

• God calls us to care for our fellow man, especially the neediest. I feel that call to lift up the less fortunate; the call to improve our communities and our state. It drives me to serve Louisiana as governor.

  

  Kathleen Blanco
  • Up
  • God

• I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Trying
  • Hair
  • Struggle

• I have an older son, Josh, and growing up, he just didn't care that much for baseball. And that was fine. But Chaddie, he always wanted to go to the ballpark. He just kind of took to it right away.

  

  Bruce Sutter
  • Growing
  • Son
  • Baseball

• 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

• First we've got population. Now, the world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that (forecast) by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent, but there we see an increase of about 1.3 (per year).

  

  Bill Gates
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I don't want to be a historical action figure or treated like I'm dead. Like one of those people where they go, 'Oh, isn't she dead?' And then I walk up, and they're like, 'Whoa.' I can't really complain... because I've made myself into a historical action figure. I was like, 'Yeah, come on in!'

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • She
  • Action

• I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

  

  Johnny Carson
  • Food
  • Sex
  • Healthy

• I'll pick up your hand and slowly blow your little mind 'Cause I made my mind up you're going to be mine.

  

  Donovan
  • Mind
  • Hand
  • Blow

• If you tell me 2 + 2 is 4, and I know it is, then you... shove marbles up your ass, I go 'Damn, Anthony shoves marbles in his ass?' But the fact that you shove marbles in your ass doesn't invalidate 2 + 2 = 4.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Up

• Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Happy
  • Comedy

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