Up Quotes

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

My personality is up and down, sassy and cheeky.

If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

There was a whole display set up of all the X-Men paraphernalia. My wife couldn't resist telling this 5-year-old boy that I was Wolverine. The little kid looked up at me and he was staring at me.

Prices are going up. Unemployment is continue to go up. And we have not had the necessary correction for the financial bubble created by our Federal Reserve system.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

I wake up every day and I can't wait to go to work, and that's a gift. Not too many people have the opportunity to feel that way.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads.

You don't want to love - your eternal and abnormal craving is to be loved. You aren't positive, you're negative. You absorb, absorb, as if you must fill yourself up with love, because you've got a shortage somewhere.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.