Best 246 quotes in «come up quotes» category

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

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 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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 good at small talk; I'm not good at big talk; and medium talk just doesn't 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'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 turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things 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.

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

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

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.

I try to make good decisions as decisions come up.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.