Up Quotes

• Growing up, I was never the kind of girl to dream about wedding dresses and pretty houses.

  

  Louise Nurding
  • Pretty
  • Dream
  • Girl

• My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

  

  David Hasselhoff
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Ambition

• I think our problems are inherently unsolvable. We need to change our genetic make-up or create computers that will think us out of it. I don't think humans are able to deal with what we have.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • Up

• If something is going on in my life, it winds up getting into my strip.

  

  Bill Griffith
  • Life
  • Up

• The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Up
  • Children
  • Party

• I don't mind standing up for what I believe in.

  

  Jason Momoa
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Mind

• When I go in, I find that it is not a lab but an office. There are a pile of letters to answer, phone numbers to call up, people waiting to have an interview, routine work that must be done.

  

  Frederick Banting
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• The scariest people to turn a movie over to are always the people who are drawing up the poster, because that's the first impression it's going to make. And very often it's portraying a very different film from the one the actors actually did.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • People
  • Different
  • Movie

• I have been doing some writing on the side a little bit with artists that I'm really excited about. Kind of more up and coming people. But, I'm focusing more on my own project. It's a full time job being an artist!

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• I know how to stand up for myself. I say no when I want to, yes when I want to, and no one can really change my mind.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Mind
  • Change
  • Myself

• I didn't actually get along with my dad when I was growing up, so by the time I was in my 20s, I didn't think I was going to be a writer.

  

  Brian Herbert
  • Time
  • Growing
  • Dad

• The greatest economic power might in fact remain in the hands of the Federal Reserve. Economists credit the Fed's policy of keeping interest rates at historic lows with helping to pump up the economy and bring unemployment down.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • Up
  • Power

• When you start playing music when you're quite young, it's easy to stay young. And then you're touring, and you see people who've been on the road for 10 or 15 years and they just haven't grown up at all.

  

  Charlie Fink
  • People
  • Music
  • Road

• Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

  

  Pete Townshend The Who
  • Up
  • Wind

• I remember running up to my dad and saying, 'I want to be an actor when I grow up!' And him saying, 'Yeah, well we'll talk about it.'

  

  Allen Leech
  • Remember
  • Running
  • Dad

• Eurybiades lifting up his staff as if he were going to strike, Themistocles said, 'Strike, if you will; but hear'.

  

  Plutarch
  • Up
  • Lifting

• We must be an inclusive nation that respects and supports all of its citizens: a nation that doesn't give up on anyone who hasn't given up on themselves.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Nation
  • Give
  • Inclusive

• It was a big win for us. We caused a lot of turnovers and stepped up the tempo knowing they played last night.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Night
  • Knowledge
  • Win

• Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends The two-fold manner, in and outwardly, And nothing in the world comes single to him. A mere itself, - cup, column, or candlestick, All patterns of what shall be in the Mount; The whole temporal show related royally, And build up to eterne significance Through the open arms of God.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • World
  • God
  • Single

• I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Parents

• I don't want to be embarrassed when I go to see something on the screen. I don't want to listen to foul language, watch a lot of violence or see something immoral. I prefer stories with sensitivity and family values; films that strive to lift you up to a higher place in life.

  

  Debra Paget
  • Life
  • Family
  • Violence

• Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Mistake
  • Choices
  • Persons

• I think this is also a great time to invest in private equity, helping companies grow from the ground up.

  

  Jim Rogers
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read.

  

  Beverly Cleary
  • Book
  • Mother
  • House

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