Up Quotes · Page 162

Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

— Taylor Swift

My siblings and I kept everything to ourselves, and rather than blowing up in an instant, my family broke apart slowly.

— Alex Tizon

Growing up, you hear Tupac's music, it's kind of like... it goes without saying that everyone likes Tupac.

— Demetrius Shipp, Jr

My dad's side grew up in Fort Lauderdale; my mom's from the Little Haiti section of Miami.

— Ovince Saint Preux

Let us remind ourselves that if we are to be our Lord's disciples, we must take up his Cross and follow him.

— Basil Hume

I get a lot of energy from making things up, which is why I feel I'm a novelist.

— Hisham Matar

I don't try to be in fashion; I don't try to follow trends. You just end up out of fashion that way.

— Alice Temperley

Taxi drivers up and down the country are at the vanguard of the electric vehicle revolution.

— Grant Shapps

Music and dance influence my style in a lot of ways. Sometimes I go off to work dressed up like I'm going…

— China Anne McClain

I say, 'Just do it. Like, shut up and just do it.' I feel that it's better to do something than to…

— Brad Mondo

When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get…

— Andy Pick

I did a paper on why is race so uncomfortable to discuss. Is it because you don't want to bring up bad…

— O. J. Mayo

Win or lose, I'm up all night. I've been that way since college - I'm going over everything in my head: woulda,…

— Brian Urlacher

In essence, Chrome OS is the GNU/Linux operating system. However, it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede…

— Richard Stallman

I never read too many comic books when I was growing up, but I think everyone loved Wolverine, you know what I'm…

— Aaron Stanford

I don't really know, I was thinking about that the other day that there aren't a lot of younger up and comers…

— Tim Heidecker

It was almost a desecration to put a building on the Boulder Turnpike, which is now U.S.-36 and is almost backyards and…

— Richard Lamm

I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern'…

— Pat Conroy

From 19 to 28 there was a lot of turmoil in my life, but in a stuck way. Then, around 28, my…

— Alicia Silverstone

Sure, I've felt racism. I think everybody has prejudice. When I was growing up, the dark Mexican kids weren't allowed in the…

— Lee Trevino

I had sold products in flea markets before and I thought a cleaning product would be a good idea. So, in 2006,…

— Vince Offer

The stories I grew up with, whether it came to queer representation or representation of anyone that was different, it was always…

— Asia Kate Dillon

I enjoy acting now more than I ever have. I've had lots of difficult times when I was younger, but that was…

— Brian Cox

I really didn't realise until I got back the work that goes into a performance. You're like an athlete - if you…

— Michael Crawford

You work all your life to get the top; you don't want to give that up.

— Chris Coleman

I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.

— Phil Daniels

I love a Dustbuster. You go around, pick up little crumbs, and everything is nice again.

— Joy Behar

What's the point of blowing up if you can't give back to the people who helped you blow up?

— YBN Nahmir

I can't afford to wait for big films. So I take up small films as they provide maximum exposure.

— Rakhi Sawant

Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving.

— Ann Hood

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

— Edward Hirsch

But it's true I hadn't realised quite how much the discipleship of Jesus Christ would involve keeping up with email.

— Richard Coles

I feel like, growing up, yes, I loved looking at fashion. I loved Tumblr.

— Barbie Ferreira

The characters in the book grow up with us. My voice has broken as well.

— Rupert Grint

I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very…

— Desiree Rogers

I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.

— Bruce Jenner

Growing up in a Latin family has given me my charisma out there, my swag.

— Nolan Arenado

My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.

— Fernando Torres

I'm a good businessman. I pay my bills. Growing up in a situation where everything counted helps.

— Kim Cattrall

The New York Dolls are the only band that we grew up on that we haven't played with.

— Tommy Lee