Up Quotes · Page 179

I put up O.K. numbers - not Bugs Bunny-style numbers like some other guys - but O.K. numbers.

— Ken Griffey Jr

I'm a true singer who grew up singing in church, so I love singing my heart out.

— Naturi Naughton

People need a narrative, and if there isn't one on offer, they make one up.

— Jean Hanff Korelitz

I grew up very fast. I was always hanging around with older kids.

— Joe Penny

I do yoga most mornings first thing when I have a little bit of time to myself, before the kids get up.

— Tess Daly

Leaving politics was a good thing. I was spared a miserable Tory government where I might have ended up as leader.

— Michael Portillo

I ended up in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific, operating out of Ayuka field in Hawaii.

— Louis Zamperini

It's really important at United that you've been brought up with that winning mentality.

— Danny Welbeck

Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic…

— Hanna Rosin

Now technology gives you a chance to help organize. You don't have to wait for either the inefficiency or the corruption. You…

— Maria Ressa

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows…

— Anne Lamott

It's all about getting your head down, focusing, working hard, competing in training, keeping fit, and picking up points.

— David de Gea

A reporter asked recently, 'What keeps you up at night?' I replied that I generally sleep well, but if I ever do…

— Mitch McConnell

Norm Smith personally came and signed me up to the Melbourne Football Club. The fact that I then played cricket for Melbourne…

— Max Walker

Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like…

— Edie Campbell

When you shoot a film, it takes six months, and it's very important keep the morale of the crew up top, all…

— John Glen

I grew up listening to Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, and Angela Lansbury, so I grew up wanting to sound like Patti and…

— Susan Egan

The same issue is happening on a show like Everybody Loves Raymond now, which is in its eighth year and struggling to…

— William Devane

When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light…

— Brian Krause

In Ferguson, there are witnesses who say Brown had his hands up when he was shot. That should be enough probable cause…

— Al Sharpton

I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella,…

— Pico Iyer

The album format is what we grew up on. Its what we aspired to when we were first discovering music - its…

— Mike Campbell

I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd…

— Jennifer Grey

I've been making pieces dealing with environmental issues at least since 2004; I mean, I did stuff for the Sierra Club and…

— Shepard Fairey

I try to show that I have no fear. When you grow up hungry, you're not afraid of anything.

— Angel Cabrera

It was later in life when I found out that I had thyroid issues and gained a ton of weight. I got…

— Gena Lee Nolin

'Spawn' was my favorite growing up, but I loved 'X-Men' and the 'Hulk' too.

— Ed Skrein

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.

— Zainab Salbi

I'm not a machine that just comes up with records and can give them away easily.

— Bibi Bourelly

You might see Al Pacino at the grocers, but you would never go up to him and say, 'Oh my God, you're…

— Louise Linton

I used to wake up at 5 A.M., and my routine involved six hours of training, both in the morning and evening.

— Hima Das

I got into physics through pop science and quantum science and ended up being such a quantum groupie.

— Talulah Riley

Florida's my home, and I've grown up in Florida for so long.

— Brooke Hogan

When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status…

— Martin Compston

If you mess up, you can't dwell on that because one bad play can turn into five bad plays then that turns…

— De'Aaron Fox

Some days I can't get an idea, and I think, 'Man, I'm just washed up,' but it's just a mood.

— Jean-Michel Basquiat

I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.

— Dav Pilkey

If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.

— Penn Jillette

Chin up, hands down, stance wide, feet flat. That doesn't work. All of that is wrong.

— Anthony Smith

Left to my own devices, I would go to bed at 2:30 or 3, but I can't do that if I'm getting up at 6:50!

— Brian Stokes Mitchell