Best 246 quotes in «come up quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ought to come up there and break your shuck nose.

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.

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

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 try to make good decisions as decisions come up.

It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!

It is hard for anyone under twenty to realise that death has already assigned them a number, which is going to come up one day.

I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.

I've had a lot of people come up to me after shows and tell me that "Dollhouse" really helped them with whatever they were going through with their families. I thought that was really amazing, that it could mean one thing for me but another thing for someone else.

It's fun to read things when you don't know all the words. Even children love it... they come up against weird words, and the weird words excite them.

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

It's ideal really. They will come up with a plan. No one will like it. Everyone will feel they have been treated unfairly, but will be happy that their neighbors feel the same. And that is the nature of compromise. Now let's go eat an awful lot.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

I've had lots of kids come up and ask for my autograph, I've had a grandmother stop me and ask me if I know a good place to buy underwear.

I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in.

I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the theater applauded.' It's just so sweet, really.

I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.

It was the most convulted, ridiculous piece of logic I'd heard in awhile... It was something I would have come up with.

I've always loved to combine different scents to come up with my own unique thing.

I've had more people come up to me about 'Saving Silverman' than anything else. That and 'That Thing You Do!' But 'Saving Silverman' is the one I get most often. And I love that.

I've never been convinced that the sun would come up without me barking.

I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show.

I was in my peak physical condition when I was about like, uh... one. Oh God, I looked good, young and fresh! You wouldn't know me now if you'd seen me when I was one, you know? I even looked good for my age. People would come up to me and go, what are you, zero? And I'd go, no, I'm one over here!

Liverpool fans were great to me, I still live near the city and they always come up and shake my hand.

I will take a little bit of credit because I did come up with 'you're welcome.'

Jumping through any hoop or taking advantage of any desperate situation that comes up just to sell a product is harmful. It is.

Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up.

I was watching Discovery Channel the other day, and you know that they have come up with a new theory about how dinosaurs was wiped out? It was a midturn election.

Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know.

Messi and the Brazilian come up to Rafinha and say “you're one of us now kid”