Best 246 quotes in «come up quotes» category

I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.

I expect the audience to come up to my level.

If a great part comes up and the guy's meant to have an Eastern European accent, great; but if it's a bad part I won't take it.

If a man comes up to me, I'm almost sure he's going to mention Rome, if it's a woman, it'll be 'Grey's Anatomy.'

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.

If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera.

I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.

If fans come up to me, I talk to them.

If government is inevitable, the challenge is to come up with the most effective one possible.

If I go out with no make-up and a tracksuit on, nobody comes up to me. And if they do, I won't do a photo because I wouldn't want any photographic evidence.

If I were to think of and dwell on disastrous possibilities, I could do nothing. I throw myself headlong into my work, and come up again with my studies.

If I wasn't going through a thing where I was also being my characters offstage, uh, I'm much happier just wearing the most low-profile things that I can come up with just so I can get down the street.

If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.

If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.

If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.

If things come up, we can say, "We're not ready for this, let's move some things around.

If the young filmmakers ask themselves enough questions and come up with enough answers and get the scripts tight enough.

I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.

If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

I hate it when people come up to me when I'm eating.

I have come up the hard way.

I have no explanation for complex biological design. All I know is that God isn't a good explanation, so we must wait and hope that somebody comes up with a better one.

I have so many people come up to me, 20-some years later, and saying, "I loved you in Jawbreaker!".

I Google myself to see what come up when you Google Daniel Radcliffe because that's always amusing.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.

I like to come up with the melodies, and I have a lot of ideas as far as structure goes.

I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.

I know that whenever I think about death, I come up against a stone wall.

I like to hear what other people's interpretations are, because people come up with things I'd never thought about.

I loved Omar Vizquel. He tells some really long jokes, and he has his own way of telling them, but he can make every joke very funny. He would always come up with jokes on the loudspeaker on the bus.

I look for things that no one I know, even myself, would ever come up with. If your solution is something that your friends or family might come up with, throw it away.

I mainly get my inspiration for writing from everyday situations and I come up with hypothetical scenarios and I can usually write a lot about that.

I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come up.

I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.

I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.

I'm not good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't come up.

Is that a stake, Bones, or are you just happy with my new dress?” “In this case, it’s a stake. You could always feel around for something more, though. See what comes up.

In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.

In part, it's so difficult to come up with something original, to come up with a character nowadays. If you created a globetrotting adventurer, he'd be compared to Indiana Jones. If you created a super spy, he'd be compared to James Bond.

I ought to come up there and break your shuck nose.

Is there one specific source that determines correct morality and everybody should follow that? Or should individuals come up with following that source or not depending on their situation?

I talked with [ Blair Macon] a lot. I always like to come up with it - sometimes the filmmaker is not into it at all.

I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else.

I thought bringing those two [Taylor Sheridan and David Mackenzie] together, odds are you're going to come up with something pretty good.

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.