Top 1200 Summing Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

I grew up surrounded by these strong, brilliant women who showed me what it meant to show up in the world with purpose and intention.

Just broke up with somebody. Well, it wasn't really a break up, it was a booty call I might have took too serious.

You know, it's nothin' quick overnight. If anything happens to you quick, you need to start questioning that. You know, you hear young people go, aw, I'm gonna blow up. You gonna blow up but with a controlled explosion. Don't just blow up all over the place.

It's always nice when someone comes up to you and tells you they enjoy the show. At least they're not coming up and saying how much they hate it.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it's hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

Get knocked down. Get back up. Always be a fighter. Don't be afraid of the punch. Don't be afraid of getting back up. Be afraid of giving up.

I went to many games with my dad, Kevin, and looked up to the players. It's surreal that now young fans are looking up to me.

Once Michael gets up there he says, 'Well, maybe I'll just hang up here in the air for a while, just sit back.' Then all of a sudden, he says, 'Well, maybe I'll 360. No I changed my mind. I'll go up on the other side.' He's just incredible.

Setting up our own label allows us to rip up the rulebook and find new ways of reaching an audience.

All my life I have had to fight to catch up with people. But not in the water. That's the one place where everyone else is trying to keep up with me!

I looked up to Don Quarrie and Michael Johnson when I was younger. They were the best in the 200m which was my main event growing up.

Growing up, I would say, when we were racing go-karts back in the day, it was always our uncle. We were always looking up to our uncle. I mean, he won the Daytona 500, he's a very well-respected man, and we've always looked up to that.

For years, reality has been nipping at the heels of satire. Now, it's finally caught up. I don't need to make this stuff up.

This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.

I grew up in a sport that didn't allow you to grow up. There was always the threat of younger competition. So you had to maintain the image of youth.

I remember going up and doing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' with Paul Simon, Santana playing up there with us.

You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.

I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.

I put up lots of photos with no make-up because it's really important that people see this is what I actually look like.

Fearful leaders side-step issues instead of dealing with them, cover up mistakes instead of owning up to mistakes; they skulk back into the shadows and hope that the crisis-whatever it is-will somehow blow over instead of facing their fears. Worse, they resort to lies and deception to cover up the truth.

How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!

Heaving up a blind pass to maybe pick up 10 yards, rather than throwing the ball away - I can't do that.

You know how we built the pyramids? You gotta ask yourself a question always flip the script. What if up was down and down was up? What if you looked down into space standing up on Earth? This is how we built the pyramids.

I think we know this much about Donald Trump so far: He believes he's a deal-maker. He likes to bargain. Part of bargaining is that you talk really tough. You ask for the moon, you settle for the topsoil. He says - he beats up on the Mexicans, he beats up on the Canadians, but the point is not to abrogate the treaty and have the two of us basically putting up walls and blocking trucks at the border.

It's easier making a smaller film like El Mariachi. There are no budget worries because there is no budget. There is no crew problem because there is no crew. And if you screw up, no one is around to see you screw up -- so it's no longer a screw up.

Acting is the best job in the world. Look at the way they treat you when you turn up for work. They give you breakfast and a cup of tea and ask, 'Are you all right' They tart up your face, you say somebody else's words, then pick up your check and go home. And you get days off. I tell you, it really is the way to live.

The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.

Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language... It is to say, 'My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in what is yours.'

My mornings start with mom coming into my bedroom and waking me up, or trying to wake me up, and then I go back to sleep. Then my mom wakes me up again and yells at me. Then she'll get me to wake up, and I'll get dressed and go to school. We go to school, and my teacher tells me that I didn't do the homework well enough. And that's that.

I grew up as a baseball player, and given my modest size, it was always clear that I would end up playing in the infield.

I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!

I was 5'3' when I was 15, but suddenly shot up to over 6 feet by the time I turned 18 and it was clear that an NBA career was up for grabs.

Sometimes I'll be somewhere, and the cops will show up to kick me out and end up just asking for a photo.

My goal is to keep going out there and defending my belt and stacking up pay cheques to set myself up for the future.

Zen teaches that once we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform that situation and lighten up about it.

I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.

I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. They're always misunderstood, but they're the ones who are standing up for human rights.

If I go out with no make-up and a tracksuit on, nobody comes up to me. And if they do, I won't do a photo because I wouldn't want any photographic evidence.

When I'm on telly, I feel a bit trussed up and I hate make-up and it does put weight on you and I look and see my chins.

I want to encourage young women to stand up for each other and speak up when they see others in a tough situation.

You know all of my fears. There's nothing your eyes can't see. When I tried to give up Lord, you never gave up on me.

Growing up, David Seaman was a massive role model for me. Peter Schmeichel and him were the ones I looked up to.

I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.

You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.

When coming up with Wonder Woman cover designs, sometimes people will pitch ideas to me, either the writer or the editor. And it's interesting, because I know they're not trying to, but they end up pitching things that end up feeling like damsel-in-distress covers, where the tension comes from her needing to be rescued somehow. And it's something I immediately push back against.

When I play games, I'll make up little stories for just anything. It's almost the game of making up background stories for people you see on the street. You know what I mean? I wasn't exactly the popular kid in school growing up, so I found myself really observing people, and watching how they interact, and how they react to things.

No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.

I have all the gym kit set up in my house but I am too lazy to get up really early in the morning to do it myself.

I realised when I was a striker that when I ended up wide on the left or right, it can be so much easier to get space and face defenders up.

Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung up with being somebody or other. Rather than just going, just spurting, just creating.

When I grew up, there were common patterns to people's lives. Now everybody is just making it up as they go along.

But you're not really emotionally mature in your 20s. Well, we weren't. You don't say anything, you just bottle it up and then it builds up.

God is not going to sit up here and judge you for what you've done in the past. Church has opened up my mind in a whole different aspect.

Most people don't know I grew up singing country music; that's what I sang right up until I did 'Idol.'

I was born in Southern California in a city called Norwalk. I grew up there until I moved up to New York when I was 18.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

You always get nervous on stage because when you get up there, you want to do great. The crowd has you pumped up so there are always a little bit of butterflies. That's all part of it. But as far as getting stage fright, clamming up there, not generally, I just enjoy it on stage and have a great time.

I tried sticking a piece of candy up my nose...it ended up getting stuck and the nurse had to get it out.

I've had a bond with West Ham since growing up as a kid, going to Upton Park, looking up to the players.

As soon as I have the script in my hand, I'll be up in my apartment room pacing up and down learning it because it's just such a lovely thing to do.