Come up Quotes · Page 11

Wait to start a startup until you come up with an idea that you feel compelled to explore.

— Sam Altman

You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.

— Malcolm Forbes

We have to let nature put what's left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.

— Bill Mollison

Moreano thought that the full back was gonna come up behind and give him one really hard.

— Ron Atkinson

I've got to play better and contribute more”. You've got to find another gear and come up with big games.

— Sean Burke

I can't come up with any good reason why they [the INS] would unilaterally disarm.

— Lamar S. Smith

There's some *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys on my iPod. I listen to it if it comes up on shuffle.

— Russell Wilson

Never make a personnel judgment the first time it comes up.

— Alfred P. Sloan

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to…

— Chris LeDoux

All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. Even the trees of the wood are glad…

— Isaiah

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something.

— Jack Handey

If you do not intend to help us," she said, "then leave this house. Dawn is coming." "I am not a vampire."…

— Cassandra Clare

Ideas are abundant. Practice giving your ideas away. If you hold onto ideas too tightly, you can convince people (and yourself) that…

— Alex Bogusky

It happened the way I come up with any story, which is that I took elements of my own life and put…

— Theodora Goss

I think the divine is like a huge smile that breaks somewhere in the sea within you, and gradually comes up again.

— John O'Donohue

The self plays among the waves of existence. It surfaces, it comes up for a while, and then it disappears again.

— Frederick Lenz

Here is the vicious circle: if you feel separate from your organic life, you feel driven to survive; survival -going on living-…

— Anonymous

The white backlash has been at work for a long time. It's been part and parcel of the Republican Party for the…

— Cornel West

If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics…

— Ned Rorem

Twitter is great and it's glorious and it's easy, but if somebody comes up with something kind of like Twitter tomorrow, that's…

— Neil Gaiman

I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans…

— Layne Staley

There are films that I don't like, and then someone will come up to me and say it's their favorite movie. The…

— Denzel Washington

All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over…

— Vladimir Lenin

IS [Islamic State] has played a major role in helping Bashar al-Assad to reposition Syria on the international scene. Now, it is…

— Tariq Ramadan

The emerging picture from such studies is that ten thousand hours of practice is required to achieve the level of mastery associated…

— Daniel Levitin

I am religious by nature, I'm not a nihilist. I don't follow, I don't even know what the tenets of things like…

— Mark Helprin

What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the…

— Keith Devlin

There's a certain sense of ownership that the fans have over you…The thing is, it's all good. You just have to get…

— Carrie Underwood

Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her like petals…

— Gregory Maguire

The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If you walked by a street and you was walking a concrete and you saw a rose growing from concrete, even if…

— Anonymous

We could learn to stop when the sun goes down and when the sun comes up. We could learn to listen to…

— Pema Chodron

People come up to me and they thank me: 'I thank you for the many, many hours of laughter.'

— Sid Caesar

Compared to dreams, reality can be truly cruel. But it can also come up with beautiful surprises.

— Nujood Ali

Today, ... anything you can come up with that works is worth trying.

— Adam LaRoche

That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.

— Paul Schrader

What you have to get used to as a writer is realizing that most of what you come up with is wrong…

— Michael Loceff

I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.

— Amy Hempel

Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage.

— John Tesh

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

— Lee Atwater