Up Quotes · Page 141

I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

— Jack Finney

Growing up, I always wanted a dog, but my parents never wanted one.

— Sophie Turner

I grew up practically getting into this business because of David Letterman. I wanted to do comedy-based interviews.

— Tom Green

Probably more than any other movie we've made here at Pixar, 'Up' was the one we were the most nervous about.

— John Lasseter

For some people, it's like I can't be a good actress because I grew up with a silver spoon.

— Joely Fisher

Galaxie 500 broke up because it was time. We broke up as a result of internal contradictions.

— Dean Wareham

You probably shouldn't date a songwriter if you don't want to end up on the record.

— The-Dream

On Saturday morning, I like to get up early and go out - TV is banned!

— Debra Stephenson

I love the holidays - any holiday - but Christmas has always been sort of special because I grew up reading Charles…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

The more original something is, the more of a threat it seems until the people catch up with it. That happened with…

— Steve Lacy

I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.

— Kevin Wilson

Everybody has to go through a struggle period, and I was no different. When I came to Mumbai from Delhi, I didn't…

— Huma Qureshi

We'd just signed with Arista, the record company. Arista was freaking about the phenomenon of tapers showing up at our shows. They…

— Bob Weir

What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that's what the Internet is doing to Islam now. It has…

— Reza Aslan

When you get down to it, wrestling is wrestling, and when you get in the ring and start performing, it's up to…

— Harley Race

When the brain gets lost, it doesn't stop working. It tries to makes sense of things. It begins to speculate and guess,…

— Simon McBurney

With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters.…

— Sammi Hanratty

I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human…

— Allison Tolman

There's whole television stations, magazines, organizations devoted to analyzing every up-and-down twist and turn, IPO, everything that happens in the formal economy.…

— Mariana van Zeller

Bob Dylan is my idol. Everybody has that person growing up that made them see things a little differently than they did…

— Richard Harmon

When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he…

— Dick Cavett

I have always appreciated designers who dare to reinterpret fabrics and proportions, so I follow the Japanese and Belgian designers. The pieces…

— Zaha Hadid

African-Americans assume I'm named after the notorious Soledad prison or Mount Soledad in California. Latinos want to know if I'm lonely. That…

— Soledad O'Brien

I'd been at Valve since I got out of college. I felt like I kind of grew up there, and I wanted…

— Kim Swift

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

— Robert Reich

It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.

— Valerie Simpson

In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.

— Yehuda Berg

The Republican Party I grew up in was a Republican Party of family unity.

— Ana Navarro

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up…

— Jordan Peterson

I grew up in Croydon, I've been to Chessington World of Adventures, Thorpe Park and Alton Towers. I love it.

— Emile Smith Rowe

Growing up, I would never have thought that I'd be a double Olympic champion, with a lovely home and beautiful kids.

— Mo Farah

I would never just prop my foot up in the middle of the dinner rush.

— Scheana Shay

I think I really would have quit if I hadn't gotten 'Inherent Vice'. Or maybe I would have just shriveled up and…

— Katherine Waterston

I dream up things, and then I convince myself that they're possible.

— Tony McCoy

I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.

— Ed Westwick

I was so worried about winning, it was as if I was caught up in my own web.

— Michelle Kwan

The opportunity to coach Kerry Kittles I wouldn't give up for anything.

— John Calipari

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

— Taylor Swift

Worlds helped me me boost my confidence up a lot actually. It made me a bigger, better, stronger gymnast.

— MyKayla Skinner

I try to force myself to travel light; otherwise, I tend to bring a million things that I end up never using!

— Sigrid Agren