Up Quotes

• I've always been known for speeding up the tempo. To me, that's just the way you play the game - aggressive. There's no time to rest. You rest on the sidelines.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Time
  • Game
  • Rest

• We have a broad array of teams. And if somebody asked me whether a team is a good buy, my response is, 'You'd better hurry up, they're going like hot cakes, and they're going to be even more valuable when we get a system that is even more sustainable.'

  

  David Stern
  • Up
  • Good
  • Team

• I grew up in a society where everything you did was eavesdropped on, recorded, snitched on. I had friends when we were kids getting into trouble for telling anecdotes about Communist leaders.

  

  Jan Koum
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Society

• I don't drink at all. I don't condone any of that. And I'm also underage so everything I do is of course under a microscope because a lot of people are onto me growing up. But I won't mess up. I have a lot of good people around me.

  

  Russell Llantino
  • People
  • Good
  • Growing

• I wrote four novels under the name Amy Silver. The first one was commissioned, and I was given basically the whole plot and the characters. They told me what to do, and I went straight away and did it. After that, I continued, and I was coming up with more my own ideas, although they did steer me.

  

  Paula Hawkins
  • Up

• I'd probably say my biggest yo-yo was when I was finishing up my senior year of college. I lost about 100 pounds and within a year gained it all back.

  

  Al Roker
  • Lost
  • College
  • Senior

• The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Important
  • Words
  • Internet

• Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

  

  John Gay
  • Up
  • Hate

• 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

• When our two souls stand up erect and strong,Face to face, silent, drawing nigh and nigher,Until the lengthening wings break into fireAt either curvèd point, - what bitter wrongCan the earth do to us, that we should not longBe here contented?

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Strong
  • Earth
  • Drawing

• Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • People
  • Great
  • Door

• God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • God
  • Real
  • Earth

• 'You go up to a man, and you say, ‘How are things going, Joe?’ And he says, ‘Oh fine, fine-couldn’t be better.’ And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Time
  • Help
  • Eyes

• I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.

  

  Lisa Loeb
  • People
  • Mind
  • Culture

• When I played a club in Salt Lake City, I complained to the crowd about the low turnout. It's always good to berate the people who paid to see you because you're upset about the people who didn't show up. It's called misplaced anger, and without it, I wouldn't have an act.

  

  Andy Kindler
  • People
  • Good
  • City

• Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand
  • Up
  • Wind

• When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.

  

  Mario Lemieux
  • Up

• I've always wanted to be on an original cast recording. I grew up listening to them, and now to know that my voice is heard on three or four of them is just surreal. I never thought I would be that person.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Listening
  • Thought
  • Three

• We are here to stir things up. Even people that hate us have to admit that we’ve already succeeded in doing that. Love Frankie or hate it - that’s what we want - a strong reaction.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • People
  • Strong
  • Hate

• I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Tennis

• You know, I've virtually never been chatted up in my life, it's true.

  

  Elizabeth Hurley
  • Life
  • Up
  • True

• For ten years I had been protected, wrapped up in something like a blanket that had been stitched together from all kinds of different things. But people never notice that warmth until after they've emerged. You don't even notice that you've been inside until it's too late for you ever to go back-- that's how perfect the temperature of that blanket is.

  

  Banana Yoshimoto
  • People
  • Different
  • Together

• It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

  

  Pierre Corneille
  • Up
  • Good

• I'm good in summer. My birthday is in summer. I don't like it when it's too hot, but, you know, blue skies, I think people genuinely loosen up a bit, and it's nicer.

  

  George Ezra
  • People
  • Good
  • Summer

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