Up Quotes · Page 137

I grew up with three brothers, so nearly everything I had was destroyed or made fun of.

— Douglas Coupland

I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.

— Craig Sager

I grew up as a Christian. I suppose at some level I wanted to believe someone was watching over me.

— Penn Jillette

I grew up reading 'Lord of the Rings' and comic books, so that kind of epic quality I like.

— Joseph Morgan

In 1983, I set up Caxton Corp. It's been an interesting and happy ride since.

— Bruce Kovner

I will definitely hook up my daughter if she decides to be a model.

— Coco Rocha

As a pitcher, you're supposed to succeed, and you're not supposed to give up a hit.

— Clayton Kershaw

I grew up at 16 years old driving trucks across the George Washington Bridge.

— Don Sherwood

We're trying to publicize this one and make people realize that the gun industry can clean up its act and can operate…

— Michael D. Barnes

I want to inspire the youth that grew up similar to where I grew up from underprivileged backgrounds. That's what I want…

— Leon Edwards

There are no coincidences. There's a reason I went back to the G League and I ended up growing and improving myself…

— Alex Caruso

Fortunately, I grew up in a traditional family where questioning was encouraged, particularly by my pandit grandfather. We are all voracious readers,…

— Amish Tripathi

I always think instinct is more interesting than anything you can think up. I mistrust and am rather bored with actors who…

— Denholm Elliott

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

When I was growing up, I always wanted to be somebody else and live somewhere else. I've always felt a little uncomfortable…

— Donald Ray Pollock

The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.

— C. V. Raman

Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you're a new guitar player learning Neil Young…

— Jesse Harris

In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped,…

— Frank Crowninshield

I don't want to be in a position that could make me vomit, like air travel. I've purloined airsick bags and stuffed…

— Scott Stossel

You might have, as a character, 30 pages of dialogue a day if you're what they call a 'front-burner story.' So you…

— Julianne Moore

I grew up with J. Edgar Hoover. He was the G-man, a hero to everybody, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was…

— Clint Eastwood

I walk on a stage, and I know if it's been a good show or not. You know when it's been a…

— Joan Rivers

I have visualizations where I'm living in a really cool place - probably outside of town - with a really dope studio…

— Reggie Watts

'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed.…

— Zac Goldsmith

My father loved the game. The people at the Albuquerque Academy I grew up with teaching me the game.

— Alex Bregman

Pausing between stimulus and response allows you to show up in your life.

— Roma Downey

If no one else is going to hype you up, you have to do it yourself.

— Mojo Rawley

My kids grew up here. My son and daughter both went to Notre Dame.

— Ara Parseghian

Simply put, we haven't lived up to your expectations... That's going to change.

— Oscar Munoz

I'm always up before everybody else. I also crash at 3 o'clock when everybody's at their prime.

— Bill Hader

I think a bit of jewellery that cheers you up for the day isn't a bad thing.

— Giles Deacon

I grew up in Chennai and was very much influenced by Rajinikant's stardom and importance of cinema in Tamil culture.

— Abhishek Banerjee

Some interviews wind you up. Some test your mettle. Some reduce you to a gibbering wreck.

— Emily Maitlis

Every morning when I wake up, I listen to 'The Brian Lehrer Show' on WNYC.

— Aidy Bryant

I didn't really watch 'Dallas' growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.

— Jesse Metcalfe

Friendships go up and down and relationships go up and down.

— Kelly Kelly

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

— Brene Brown

So many people pass up older dogs, which is a shame. With an older dog, you know what you are getting.

— Lisa Jakub

I'm keen on doing TV shows and if anything really challenging comes my way, I'm up for it.

— Mandira Bedi

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

— Tina Brown