Top 1200 Come Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

I have to take care of the house, and the dogs, and the Macondo Board meetings, all those e-mails, the letters that are going to fans. And you've got to pay bills. These things eat up your time. You have to prepare and pack to go on that trip. Then when you come back you have to file all that stuff, answer all that mail, and that's not even washing the clothes or any of that. So it takes as many days as I've been away to come back to normal and to get quiet.

Traditionally, the only way I come up with cartoons is by sitting at my desk and thinking.

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it

God is my spiritual guide. Half the music I come up with I really don't know where it comes from.

How do I start writing a book? I sit there, I come up with an opening line, and then I go little by little. I'll wonder, Well, what's coming? And that goes right through to the very end. For over a dozen years now, I've had a recurring dream where I'm reading a book and the pages are blank, but as I read, the words come to exist as fast as my eyes can move. Strange, strange thing.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Stick a camera up in an Indian village, and thousands of people come to watch.

Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?

They put me in an office with the TV set up and said "Here's the tape. When you're finished writing your copy for the little trailer you're going to do, you'll come out and show it to us and we set you up to go edit it." I turned it on and it was just this hardcore film and I was like, "Oh my God, I've fallen down the rabbit hole."

It's easy to see that two people might come up with that same idea.

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.

I have no hesitation in taking up more acting assignments if good roles come.

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

When you look at the artists who have come up through 'Billboard' over the years, it's incredible.

You come up against challenges in life, and it's how you deal with them that defines you.

I do need to loosen up a bit, and that usually does come with old age. That's the intention.

We come up with slogans on the road and then we start putting them on the songs.

All kinds of music comes out that I'm not prepared for. Some of it is good, some of it rubbish, but I kind of accept it all. That's the nature of stream-of-consciousness. You can't always come up with your most lucid material in the heat of the moment. I take that risk when I play live. I open up my mind, however fertile a creative springboard it is that evening.

Somebody can do a ten year stint in jail and when they come home, they can be a rapper. Or, they can go from doing the 9-5 thing and become a rapper because everyone else is doing it. I think that the test of time will tell. If you look around you'll find out who really wants to do it and who is doing it for the come up. I think that's the greatest separation. At some point along the line, it became gangsta to not be talented!

Beyoncé says it was Mathew Knowles, her father, who made her understand discipline and work ethic, what it means to come in early before class starts to stretch, or to work on your dégagés or your pirouettes or whatever it was. I was a turner! So to come in early and then to stay afterward and to just soak up everything that the teacher has, that's really what it's about - the striving for excellence.

it is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come. ... Pour out the dull things on paper too-you can tear them up afterward-for only then do the bright ones come. If you hold back the dull things, you are certain to hold back what is clear and beautiful and true and lively.

You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.

The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.

Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'

I find children still come up to me and say 'You're Emily from Friends.'

Seriously, I will probably out-talk you if you come up to me because I'm a chatterbox.

Whenever you come across a screw-up this big, you know the government is behind it.

All the issues that have come up under the Obama administration would be continued under Hillary Clinton.

If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

I'm always trying to come up with something new and unique. I do a beatbox with a harmonica.

You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'

People come up to me in the street and use words like 'legend.'

I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

You need to come up with a reason to make a movie, separate from the commercial side.

When I'm all grown up, come what may, I'll build a boat to carry me away

I really didn't think anything would come out of doing stand-up.

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.

I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.

What I learned about acting, from my experiences directing, is why so many producers and directors don't like actors. You go through all of this work securing a location, figuring out how to get electricity there, how to get trucks parked where they need to be, and where catering is going to come from. And if the actors don't come up with some magic, it actually didn't matter. That creates a lot of animosity towards the actors.

If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.

To get up in the morning and do what I love doing is a dream and it has come to reality for me.

Professionals don't get writer's block. I can always come up with the punch line.

People come up to me and sing, 'Been around the world and I-I-I-I... ' all the time.

It's inevitable that tough situations will come up, but it's how you react that is the challenge.

God told me once, 'I want you to come up to the lowest place.'

In America, people come up to me and say, 'Hi, Sir Humph!'

Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up.

I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

When you have 10 people in a room, you're always able to come up with new ideas.

I was born and brought up in Canada but I always wanted to come to India and act.