Top 1200 Gearing Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

We had barracuda jackets and alligator shirts with the collars up. We were wearing the collar up before it was cool.

I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV. So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don't want to ever give up any part of it. I will say that stand-up is my first love; it's how I got started and is in my bones.

I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to. I filled up pages with words and plans I knew I would not follow. When I go home from my laboratory in the late afternoon, I often do not know what I am going to do the next day. I expect to think that up during the night. How could I tell them what I would do a year hence?

When I came up, it was Macho Man and all these other guys, and you had to come up with your own stuff. If you didn't come up with your own stuff, you weren't getting over.

Yes, exactly. I think that Christmas is always used at any point in the year to cheer us up, like each other up. We would use that to cheer each other up if we were in a sad mood or something, we'd just start talking about Christmas.

The teacher will never give up on the student no matter how mixed up he or she might be

I grew up in celebrity world, so I know what famous people are like, and I've never looked up to them in that way.

I looked at Bria. “How do you put up with him?” Bria started to open her mouth, but Finn piped up instead. “She puts up with me because I happen to be rich, handsome, charming, a witty conversationalist, and exceptionally talented in bed,” he smirked. “Flexible too.” I groaned. “I did not need to hear those last two.

Writing on the beach is not what it's cracked up to be. The sand blows, and you perspire, and the page gets all blotty and messed up, so I don't do that anymore.

Chris Jericho was always someone I looked up to. I was a WWE fan growing up, and I remember his debut.

Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.

Limericks don't come from Limerick. But it comes from that between the verses when they used to have those competitions that they would put in the refrain, "follow me up, follow me up, follow me up to Limerick Town."

The first to five, it's anyone's game. You only have to slip up in one leg, they get a break and then you're up against it.

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.

You enjoy that as a player, though, going up against the best, just try and see how you stack up.

Never give up, no, never give up If you're looking for something easy You might as well give it up.

It's harder to stay strong than it is to give up. Giving up doesn't get you anywhere.. Only makes you weak.

Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

But when we find that one person who completes us, we don't give up. No matter how bad we screw up. We make it right.

If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.

I've had people come up and actually pick me up out of the blue. That gets a little annoying.

When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.

I'm done fighting at welterweight. Unless they open up a 175-pound division, I'm moving up to middleweight.

This is what I grew up on in Alsace. It's choucroute. I'd wake up every morning with the smell of cabbage and potatoes and pork.

I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California.

I'm going to stash up my cash and invest in real estate. I want to be set up for the end of fighting.

I grew up in the 'hood, but it was like growing up in Beverly Hills because there were so many superstars around.

I was adopted by a Salvadorian mother and a white father. Growing up having complete identity crisis. Then my search for my mother and trying to find out why I was given up, and how could a mother give up a child, then finding out the circumstances of my birth was pretty traumatizing.

A long-term relationship is about showing up and working hard and banking on each other. If one's down, the other might be up and can help the other one up, and sometimes you're both down and you just [band] together. Endurance is a big theme of it for me. That might not sound romantic, but I kind of think that it is.

We've suspended the willing suspension of disbelief. We have given up that relationship, that almost hypnotic engagement, with the characters up on the screen.

The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The Zuckerburg's, Pages and Brins, that succeed have such a level of belief in what they are doing that they will put up with the kind of crap that most people won't put up with, they are incredibly persistent and resilient.

I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have a lot of inferiority feelings concerning my own lack of education, my entry into show business. I'm not a Baryshnikov. I'm not a Nureyev. I came up in vaudeville. Strippers. So I've always had these feelings. But I think they've also helped me.

Don't give up on me now. I'm sorry. I guess that's an odd thing to say. Because isn't that what I'm doing? Giving up?

Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.

You take up for your buddies, no matter what they do. When you're a gang, you stick up for the members. If you don't stick up for them, stick together, make like brothers, it isn't a gang anymore. It's a pack. A snarling, distrustful, bickering park like the Socs in their social clubs or the street gangs in New York or the wolves in the timber.

My parents are in the business - they're actors - so I kind of grew up on a film set, which was a funny place to grow up.

I'm very fortunate to have parents who have kept me grounded, so I hopefully won't end up in a bad situation when I grow up.

Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up.

If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'Shut up and calculate!'

Every morning when I wake up, I make up my mind to solve as many problems, before retiring home

Whether you're throwing up or breaking up, you want your girlfriend right there! I don't trust women who don't go to their girlfriends.

Because I grew up in a single parent home with my mom, growing up, things weren't always the best.

Everyone keeps saying I’ll pick it up. But what if I don’t? I did algebra for three years, and I never picked that up.

Well, I think that I pretty much grew up grow up wanting to represent the West Indies.

And don't get hurt,' [Dexter] added. 'There's no one to help you up there. And don't go stirring up a lot of trouble for us. This case isn't ripe yet. Until it is, our policy with Mr Big is 'live and let live'.' Bond looked quizzically at Captain Dexter In my job,' he said, 'when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It's 'live and let die'.

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'

There are no excuses this time. Now it's up to women to step up and lead ourselves and our sisters through the threshold.

Western doctors are like poor plumbers. They treat a splashing tub by cleaning up the water. These plumbers are extremely apt at drying up the water, constantly inventing new, expensive, and refined methods of drying up water. Somebody should teach them how to close the tap.

Growing up, there was a lot of pressure to live up to certain expectations and money as if I was rich and stuff. It was a bit of a facade.

One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and doing a show.

I did not watch a lot of wrestling while growing up. I started following after I came up to WWE.

I think you set up certain standards. I've always kind of believed in the Neil Pert way of making records where I'm trying to step it up every time I do something. You're trying to better yourself. You're also trying to make your audience or your listeners more interested. So, if you can up it, I think that's important.

Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.

Incomes went up for everybody. Manufacturing jobs went up also in the 1990s, if we're actually going to look at the facts.

When I gave up law to go into real estate, my mother said, 'How can you give up the law?' But she lived long enough to see the Bulls win all six championships. She would wear all six pendants at the same time. She could barely stand up.

I couldn't not be who I am. That bubble eventually bursts down the road. So you just have to be real, and when you goof up, say you goofed up.

It's a very scary time for a lot of people; they feel scared to speak up. There's so much controversy even speaking up about politics to begin with. People try to discredit you at every single corner, especially if you're a woman. So it's hard as an artist to really speak up about this kind of stuff when you're trying to be successful and have a career.

I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.