Up Quotes

My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.

Be kind to people on the way up - you'll meet them again on your way down.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

When Donald Duck traded his wings for arms, was he trading up or trading down?

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Great players are willing to give up their own personal achievement for the achievement of the group. It enhances everybody.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

When I was 12 years old, I was hanging out with 23-year-olds. I was into cartoons and Pokemon, and they're all talking about girls. It was a strange way to grow up.

I want to be all used up when I die.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

If you're running for president, you've got to do a lot of things to line up a candidacy. I've not done any of those things. It's not my plan. My plan is to be a good chairman of the House Budget Committee and fight for the fiscal sanity of this nation.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.

I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.

Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

The word 'aerobics' came about when the gym instructors got together and said: If we're going to charge $10 an hour, we can't call it Jumping up and down.

If we can clean up our world, I'll bet you we can achieve warp drive.