Top 1200 Winding Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
There are no excuses this time. Now it's up to women to step up and lead ourselves and our sisters through the threshold.
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.
Never give up, no, never give up
 If you're looking for something easy
 You might as well give it up. — © Cat Power
Never give up, no, never give up If you're looking for something easy You might as well give it up.
I love the process of dressing up, and people that dress up, and serving looks and drag queens and club freaks and all of that.
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.
That messed me up, growing up in the public eye when I was a teenager. That's when everyone is trying to find themselves.
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.
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.
I grew up in Malaysia, and Bollywood is really big there. As a result, I've grown up watching a lot of Hindi movies.
For every two degrees the temperature goes up, check-ins at ice cream shops go up by 2%.
Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.
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.
Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay. — © Lucy Lawless
Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.
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.
Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and 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.
Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.
We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.
It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.
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.
People need to wake up and realize that life doesn't wait for you. If you want something, get up and go after it.
I did grow up in a small town. I grew up in a lot of different places. But I consider my home to be Cleveland.
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.
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 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 grew up without any money, but the one thing that we did was sit up in the gods to watch the ballet.
The beauty of growing up in a coaching family, particularly one that isn't at the very highest level, is that you get to be in the gym - that's where you grow up.
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.
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.
Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.
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.
I didn't even remember it because it kind of came up, and then a week later it said I broke up with him.
I grew up in Texas, and I think anybody who grows up in the Midwest or in the South, it's just a different way of life.
'Chewing Gum' is kind of like the world I wish I grew up in. There wasn't really a sense of community growing up.
I've had people come up and actually pick me up out of the blue. That gets a little annoying.
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.
I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.
He drank standing up because he said, 'If you drink sitting down, you don't know if you will be... able to stand up.' — © Jack Hemingway
He drank standing up because he said, 'If you drink sitting down, you don't know if you will be... able to stand up.'
You enjoy that as a player, though, going up against the best, just try and see how you stack up.
I did a pilot for HBO, called One Percent, that they didn't end up picking up, but it was a pretty intense and dramatic piece.
I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.
I played piano growing up, had lessons and all that. I still try to touch up on that every once in a while.
There is a certain generation who have grown up being able to mash up, to tinker with, every system they've ever encountered.
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."
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.
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.
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.
When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger. — © Michelle Trachtenberg
When you grow up on film, people sometimes have difficulties accepting the fact that you are growing up. They always imagine you younger.
Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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.
I did not watch a lot of wrestling while growing up. I started following after I came up to WWE.
I don't want to look up and think, 'Wow, I had a moment to really be a part of changing the world, and I didn't live up to it.'
I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.
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.
You know what men are like, they never really grow up, do they? Do they ever catch us up mentally? I don't think so.
The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.
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.
When you just get mixed up & there's too much going on, then it's time to pick up your guitar.
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.
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