Up Quotes

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall and running off the stage and playing the same time. It's old hat!

It's wonderful to feel supported, but there's a lot of negative energy towards me as well. So I ignore it, to be honest. If I started to read it all it would completely mess up my head.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

The pop world is cool, but I never really thought of myself as part of it or wanting to be a part of it because I'm on a label that's not really like that. They're not trying to dress me up, they're not trying to do things like that. I feel like I'm sort of separate from that, actually.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.

I have a wife and a son, but the gay rumors have started. I guess it's a sign that I'm moving up the ladder.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.