Up Quotes · Page 11

It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading…

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

I grew up listening to Nirvana and then went through some bad '90s pop stuff - a lot of Australian one-hit wonders.

— Courtney Barnett

I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and…

— E. L. Konigsburg

There'll be some opportunities for other things post-playing, but it's like, 'Man, I don't want to give this gig up.'

— Charles Woodson

People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.

— Andy Stanley

The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up.

— Liam Gallagher

Women are brought up to believe you are going to be the better parent and you know what's best. I don't think…

— Jessica Valenti

You're never too big for the Challengers. There have been many great players who've had to go up and down there.

— Christopher Eubanks

I'm not a huge fan of Madonna's songs. I liked Cyndi Lauper better growing up.

— Peaches

Toronto is actually way more fast-paced than L.A. - I find the fast-paced nature of Toronto a bit obtrusive. In L.A., I…

— Jordan Gavaris

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of…

— Liz Phair

Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a…

— Barton Gellman

So they talk about heaven, and I don't know what is waiting for me up there. But I can tell you this:…

— Steve Sabol

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an…

— Lucy Alibar

Brooklyn, where I grew up, is a competitive burg - there's always a pretty boy around the corner there, and you gotta…

— Theophilus London

I've virtually grown up in the television industry.

— Jennifer Winget

I keep up to scratch on the sax.

— Fred MacMurray

Airbnb was born out of necessarity. Our rent went up. It was born out of a problem.

— Joe Gebbia

I hadn't grown up with 'The Hobbit;' I hadn't grown up with 'Lord of The Rings,' anything like that.

— Martin Freeman

Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed…

— Robert Gottlieb

Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank…

— John Mellencamp

You know I'm from North Carolina, so I grew up eating grits, honey.

— Tabitha Brown

First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to…

— John Sebastian

You've got your family. You've got your kids. You grow up a lot faster.

— Sebastian Janikowski

My parents are naive in their morality of things, and so, without realising it, I landed up being ethical and having strong…

— Sonali Bendre