Up Quotes · Page 170

My father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances.

— Lee Marvin

Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.

— Earl Sweatshirt

I seldom watch TV, but I often get caught up in cricket no matter what time they are on.

— Dinesh Paliwal

I grew up in wide-open spaces, but they didn't have the romantic history of the West.

— Robert Taylor

A new procurement policy had to be brought in 2016. Subsequent to it, procurement has gone up rapidly.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

The Selecao squad have always been a great bunch, ever since I was first called up.

— Hulk

Actors don't have to be conscious all the time or up their game when it comes to fashion.

— Sanya Malhotra

I wasn't aware of Green Arrow as a kid. My thing growing up was wrestling.

— Stephen Amell

It is the press that has taken these charges and accusations and blown them up without any kind of skepticism whatsoever -…

— Dixie Lee Ray

When I started surfing, you'd hear this neat rumbling sound when you took off and go for the drop, and when the…

— Dick Dale

The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.

— Patrick Nielsen Hayden

I grew up as a Christian, and I always think of Jesus as someone right next to us, you know, someone really…

— Diogo Morgado

I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never lost…

— Rocky Graziano

I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

— Natasha Trethewey

Sometimes the independent movies can get a little too arty-farty. You watch the IFC Channel and you want to throw up. You…

— Mickey Rourke

I was actually born in New York. We lived there until I was three so I grew up watching Sesame Street and…

— Saoirse Ronan

When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody…

— Gail Collins

Incongruous information is discarded, and supporting information is eagerly retained. Our memory actually ends up skewed: we are better able to process…

— Maria Konnikova

I use these senses - touch, sight, feel and smell - as triggers that invite readers or propel them into the scene.…

— David Morrell

I'd always been extremely fascinated by the French Nuit Blanche, which is a weekend that they have in Paris where they keep…

— Anna Wintour

It seems ridiculous that you can be in one state with your driver's license and buy a firearm, and then in the…

— Joe Perry

I was very frustrated, in a physical sense, by people seeing me in a way that I wasn't. And I was beginning…

— Rufus Sewell

What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call…

— Olympia Snowe

As an ex-stand up, I can tell you that a comedy club isn't a place you go looking to get the abuse…

— John Ridley

I hope that my life ends up being my greatest work of art, not just my music.

— Jewel

There's nothing more gratifying than someone coming up and saying you influenced an entire region of the United States.

— Chipper Jones

I am always asked, 'You grew up in Africa?' Every time I introduce a film, or I'm interviewed, 'You grew up in…

— Claire Denis

I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

— Randy Pausch

Work is really wrapped up with identity. Work is not just money for most people.

— David Autor

The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age.

— David Brock

We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.

— Joel Salatin

When you're doing an album, you need to come up with something new, be creative.

— Ginuwine

I have this image of myself as kinda like the Energizer Bunny. I get knocked down, and I pop right back up.

— Boyd Holbrook

Lorrie came along, which is the best thing that ever happened to me. Because of her, I straightened up my life.

— Keith Whitley

I grew up in a very Christian household. We went to church every Sunday whether I wanted to or not.

— Tracy Lawrence

The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.

— Sam Graves

If I had a dollar for every guy that came up to me to say, 'I'm not a scrub,' oh my God,…

— Rozonda Thomas

There's a full-court press to put down an uprising around Ferguson, but no preparation for lifting up the people there.

— Jesse Jackson

I am quite an early riser - I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.

— Adam Ant

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

— Shigeru Miyamoto