Top 1200 Stand For Something Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I don't need a stage to perform. We just need something to stand on.

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

I've only written stand-up and sketch before, so writing something long-form on my own is proving quite difficult. But I'm enjoying it as well.

I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.

For my stand-up, I always have my notebook with me and if something strikes me, I'll write it down.

I loved working in stand-up, and I always dreamed that I could make a movie about it. I didn't know if I would have the courage to, because if you make a bad movie about stand-up, then comedians will mock you for the rest of your life. They're still mad about movies made 25 years ago. But it was always a dream of mine, and I was glad I finally came up with an idea that allowed me to explore it in such a way that it's not all about stand-up, but stand-up creates a great backdrop for another type of story.

You've got to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything You've got to be your own man, not a puppet on a string

I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.

The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.

Some people cannot stand up in front of people and talk, and I can - I think that's something you don't learn; you're born with it.

What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?

There was something about stand-up that music wouldn't give me, which was my love of the spoken word and the mercurial tendency of language to respond to what happens to you.

My approach to jewelry has always been to keep it very simple, but if you want to wear something, make sure it is exquisite and lovely and will stand out.

I'm a firm believer in Jesus, that he died for our sins. That's something I want to stand for. I want to share that to the world. That's what we're called to do.

In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.

Shouldn't we stand back to back or something?" "What? Why?" "I don't know. In movies that's what they do in this kind of… situation.

When you walk out here with the Bobcats logo, stand for something. Not wearing your hat to the back, sagging jeans. Be a professional, that's how I present myself to them.

I think the Davis Cup has some untapped potential. It should be as prominent as the Grand Slams when it takes place. If you put it together with Fed Cup for an organized, nationalistic team competition taking place in a central location for two weeks, I think that would be beneficial from a fan interest stand point, from a media stand point and from a television stand point.

That's the great thing about being in a band: it's a gang for people who are too wimpy to fight. You can create a gang and have an identity and fight for something and stand up for something just by making pop songs. They're my gang members and gang members are for life, and if you try and leave, we execute you. That's the way it goes. A simple bang, back of the head, into the river, and we keep moving on.

I always wanted to make a coming-of-age film, or something about growing up, like 'The Wonder Years,' 'Stand By Me' or 'Diner.'

Stand-up comedy is something that you have to strive to do, multiple times a night, every night, to be good.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

I think everybody's a groupie for something. I mean, women used to stand on seaports and wait for the guys to come in on ships. They were ship groupies.

Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their minds, simply as shoemakers and tailors stand to their bodies.

As an actor, you never really set out to be a stand-out character. You just want to do justice to the story and enjoy playing it, and find all the different nooks and crannies of who someone is. For each part that you get, they're all special and you just try to give everything you can to each one. I don't know whether they're going to be stand out in that way or not factors into my work. They all stand out for me.

Without defeats, how do you really know who the hell you are? If you never had to stand up to something - to get up, to be knocked down, and to get up again - life can walk over you wearing football cleats. But each time you do get up, you're bigger, taller, finer, more beautiful, more kind, more understanding, more loving. Each time you get up, you're more inclusive. More people can stand under your umbrella.

One of the great business virtues of high publishing was that it was a difficult business to enter. You had to stand for something.

I tend to stand up and speak up when I see something dysfunctional happening.

But it's me taking a stand for something that means something. And it's for the fighters who are up and coming. It's sort of the same stance Martin Luther King and Malcolm X made, so we could have freedoms, so everybody could tell the world that we're equal. The only thing I'm saying is that we are equal. So if you're not on nothing and I'm not on nothing, then let's go take the test. That's all I'm saying.

It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it. It's tricky and definitely a requires striking a delicate balance.

Just do something that makes you stand out. Even if not everyone likes it, just do it.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

I am inspired by the likes of Steve Biko, Nelson Mandela, Princess Diana and those of their calibre. They understood fully what it means to be selfless and to stand for something.

You have to have enough conviction to stand for something. It doesn't matter if it's the opposing party or your own party.

Honesty is a foundation, and it's usually a solid foundation. Even if I do get in trouble for what I said, it's something that I can stand on.

Yeah, I mean, I did regular stand-up for a long time. And I did - I stopped doing stand-up when I worked on 'Ellen,' which was for five years. So when I went back to it, I found that, like, regular stand-up didn't really do it for me anymore. It almost felt insincere, like I wasn't saying anything I actually really wanted to say.

What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?

In life, you need some backbone. You need to stand for something.

You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.

Waiting is so unusual that many of us can't stand in a queue for 30 seconds without getting out our phones to check for messages or to Google something.

People who are good at stand-up, they sort of seem to have to do it. Something within them makes them have to go on the road.

My business is creating fame and celebrity, and I'm one of the best in the world. I know it to the finest detail. I reflect what's out there, and if there's a demand for something, I recognise it. I don't think I'm crass. I stand by everything I do.

The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on

I just always loved stand-up. It's like magic. You say something, and a whole room full of people laughs together. Say something else, they laugh again. The fact that people come to see that and participate in that... I don't know, it's just like magic.

Stand-ups are always good to see on YouTube. There's a guy named Mike Head who lives in Cleveland. He's great. He's an African-American stand-up.

I love the Holy Spirit. I can't stand to see it being disrespected. It's been there for me at times when I really needed it. Therefore, I have a duty to stand for it is how I feel.

As women, we must stand up for ourselves. We must stand up for each other. We must stand up for justice for all.

Stand-up is not something that you're good at right away. You have to do it a ton. But, I think I got to shave a year off because I didn't have to get over stage fright.

If you're afraid of something, face it. Fear is irrational. The only way to conquer your fear is to stand next to it.

The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down. We know they have fallen before.

Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!

We have to do what we think is right, even though we may have to stand up to some loud voices in our own parties in order to get something done.

It's easier to stand on the sidelines, criticize, and say why you shouldn't do something. The sidelines are crowded. Get in the game.

I like to edit; I like to work with other people, and that's something stand-up doesn't really have.

Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.

What you stand for is more important than what you stand in.

I have to do stand-up. I have to do something comedy-involved every day or else I will lose my mind. I already am, but I would go more nuts.

I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

Why do I work as hard as I work if I see something I know is wrong and I won't take a stand?

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.