Up Quotes

• I always talk with models and they always tell me how awful it was growing up being tall and skinny. Then when you're older, you're really glad. I think it's nice to have been through a terrible time and then all of a sudden be so lucky because then you appreciate it.

  

  Jerry Hall
  • Time
  • Growing
  • Nice

• The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Up
  • War
  • Soldier

• I didn't wake up one day and want to become an entrepreneur. I had the idea for Rent the Runway and thought it would be fun to work on and also thought if it was successful, it would make women feel great about themselves.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Work
  • Great
  • Women

• I used to spend a lot of time cutting out film posters from papers and putting them up on the wall in my room.

  

  Anurag Kashyap
  • Time
  • Wall
  • Cutting

• Whenever Congress was in session, we were in Washington. So four months out of the year we were in Tennessee and the rest of the time in Arlington, which is where my mom grew up. Then, of course, in 1992 we moved into the vice president's house in D.C. I was 15 then.

  

  Kristin Gore
  • Time
  • House
  • Mom

• There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • World
  • Good
  • Cheer

• Just as I lay back, she sat up. I sat up, and she flopped back down. Awkward. That was my every move when it came to her. Now we were both lying down, staring up at the blue sky.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • She
  • Sky
  • Blue

• I used to have costumed characters come out, like SpongeBob. It's just fun to make it into this minor event, just to surprise people and experiment and be weird and just have fun with it. I've done just the hour stand-up, and that's fun, but the other stuff makes it fun for me and gives me something to react to and bounce off of.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • People
  • Done
  • Fun

• Growing up, I was a water baby. We lived near a lake, had a pool in our backyard, and as soon as I was old enough, I joined a swim team. By 10, I was winning local events.

  

  Victoria Arlen
  • Growing
  • Team
  • Water

• I'm always surprised at what I actually end up doing because I don't have a strategy or a game plan, especially now that I'm making my own choices.

  

  Gemma Arterton
  • Up
  • Game
  • Choices

• I loved movies growing up. I went to the movies with my uncle all the time. But being an actor? I didn't even think about it until I was about twenty years old. I took a class at the college I was at. I don't know why - I just wanted to take a class, and I kind of fell in love with it there.

  

  Christopher Abbott
  • Time
  • Why
  • Growing

• In my case what happened next in 1999 was that I fell apart over that back nine. When I saw I was in genuine contention that year I felt like throwing up. That remains probably the most nervous I've ever been on a golf course.

  

  Lee Westwood
  • Up
  • Golf

• My mother has rheumatoid arthritis. I don't want to lose the ability to jump up and walk across the room or move around with the energy I'm used to having. That's far more important to me than a wrinkle or two.

  

  Cheryl Ladd
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Energy

• I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

  

  David R. Ellis
  • Up

• If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars. They would have let the auto industry in America go down the tubes.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • America
  • Driving
  • Auto

• Whether a tops-down or bottoms-up investor in bonds, stocks, or private equity, the standard analysis tends to judge an investor or his firm on the basis of how the bullish or bearish aspects of the cycle were managed.

  

  Bill Gross
  • Up
  • Judge

• I had to pinch myself. I got the call and didn't expect it. And right up 'til nearly the end of filming, I was thinking, 'Am I actually doing a film with Akshay Kumar?' because I was a massive Akshay Kumar fan before, and the first film that I ever watched was his and Katrina's film, 'Namastey London.'

  

  Amy Jackson
  • Up
  • Thinking

• Don't get too caught up in the typical ideas of what makes a good drummer. Those things are sort of unattainable, and they're not always creatively your most useful things to know.

  

  Janet Weiss
  • Up
  • Good

• I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • People
  • Family
  • Character

• I love playing; I love playing good, and it's fun to be up around the top and having a chance.

  

  Jimmy Walker
  • Up
  • Good
  • Fun

• Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

  

  Jim Valvano
  • Up

• I never take storms as seriously as I should, which is probably not the way I should be handling it. I think it's to do with growing up in New Orleans and having a hurricane, like, once a week.

  

  Chloe Bridges
  • Up
  • Growing

• I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.

  

  Jason Falkner
  • Up
  • Song

• The year 2014 was a big year for my taste buds. They really stepped up their game. Like, I got into red wine, coffee and sushi for the first time. Well done, George.

  

  George Ezra
  • Time
  • Done
  • Game

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