Stand Quotes

He slides into second with a stand up double.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.

When Little Richard used to stand up and play it was just fabulous, and Liberace had the candlesticks and the rings and the gift of the gab. The piano's is the most ungainly rock' n' roll instrument of all time but those two people transcended it, as did Jerry Lee Lewis.

Have I ever made a mistake? I am sure. Do I think I can stand on my record? I do.

I hate being mean. I watch those roasts on Comedy Central and they make the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

Whether we are poor among the poorest, or less poor among the wealthier, let us stand proud and noteworthy, united and strong, comforted by our belonging to the Community of the Free Nations of our Planet.

The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?

Well, I don't know. Home Alone, I was a lot younger and I was in every shot and it was a lot colder, so Home Alone was physically demanding but more like being able to stand for a long time.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!

You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.

Burst down those closet doors once and for all, and stand up and start to fight.

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it.

If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.

These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.

All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men. But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man. The question is: What do you stand for? Are you a follower, or are you a leader?

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

We are hopeful about the opportunities ahead, and stand ready to join this President in an open and honest dialogue about improving the state of our union for all Americans not the select few.

I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer who is getting clobbered by these gasoline and oil prices.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.

I've just had some of the worst situations with the most beautiful girls who I just could not stand talking to anymore. The physical only lasts for so long.