Up Quotes

• What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Done
  • Book
  • Funny

• And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • People
  • Important
  • Women

• I'm not looking for pity, I'm really not, but I'm constantly uneasy and every day it is pretty much like getting up and going to war. Once I shift into the mindset of 'Yeah, you're alive. It's tough. Let's do what we can today,' it's easier.

  

  Marian Keyes
  • War
  • Today
  • Pretty

• When you look up. Do you see the blue sky of what might be? Or the darkness of what will never be? Do you see me?

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Sky
  • Blue
  • Darkness

• I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there's lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that's a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Good
  • Music
  • Church

• I live here in Vermont, in a village of barely a thousand people halfway up the state's third highest mountain.

  

  Chris Bohjalian
  • People
  • Live
  • Mountain

• Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Respect
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• English fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Life
  • Growing
  • English

• It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Good
  • True
  • Pretty

• I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

  

  Angela Cartwright
  • Time
  • Live
  • Mind

• I took Second City out of desperation, and that's what ended up working out. It shows that you should be doing a lot of different stuff, taking whatever opportunities are there, to see what works.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Up
  • Different
  • City

• Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Writing
  • Newspapers
  • Controversy

• My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen.

  

  John Wozniak
  • Bad
  • Mother
  • Universe

• I was thrilled when I heard about the Time's Up campaign's legal defense fund for women who've experienced harassment and sexism. I'd been longing for this movement to extend beyond Hollywood.

  

  Connie Britton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• In the morning when I wake up, I'll exfoliate. Then at night when I shower, I'll also use an exfoliating scrub. My routine is easy, and I just get clean skin.

  

  Jazz Jennings
  • Up
  • Night
  • Morning

• My mom ending up passing away, and I got really depressed and didn't have money for therapy, and so I started doing standup to cope with my mom's death.

  

  Cristela Alonzo
  • Money
  • Death
  • Mom

• I don't think, to be a traveler, you have to reject setting roots up.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Up

• I feel like in the reading I did when I was growing up, and also in the way that people talk and tell stories here in the South, they use a lot of figurative language. The stories that I heard when I was growing up, and the stories that I read, taught me to use the kind of language that I do. It's hard for me to work against that when I am writing.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Work
  • Writing

• When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Time
  • Brain
  • Information

• I've been dictating to my son, who's helping me on his computer. I'm spending a lot of time doing research-I've just got up to 1971, when I went crazy and dived through the window. My life is so full of interesting stories...

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Life
  • Time
  • Interesting

• Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Time
  • She
  • Lost

• This season I've been on more of a plant-based diet, getting away from all the animals and all that. I had to get away from that. So my energy is up, my body feels amazing. Just understanding what the diet is like for me and what’s beneficial for me for having the highest energy out here and being able to sustain it at a very high level.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • High
  • Energy
  • Amazing

• I feel like I'm a professional storyteller, really. A lot of people say 'a truth teller,' and, if the writing supports it, that's what your aim is: to try and present people with a series of truths, and then they can make up their mind about those and whether they have any real credence or weight.

  

  Billy Howle
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• We all know that a call-up to the Springboks (South Africa national team) is a major achievement and the rewards, especially financial, are huge.

  

  Ashley Johnson
  • Team
  • Financial
  • Achievement

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