Best 246 quotes in «come up quotes» category

One can always come up with funny lists and jokes. You know what? I take it back. Not everyone can always come up with funny lists and some jokes. I'm very lucky to have a gift where I can do that pretty ably.

Offers come up, but I'm still fighting for jobs and auditioning and being rejected.

One man's trash that's another man's come up.

One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.

One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.

Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.

Our intention is to really explore this transition and, beyond that, explore the particular things that someone comes up against when they're gay or lesbian.

One of the things that sells music is when the artist is looked at as someone who's come up from the streets. Not just any streets, but the toughest, meanest streets of the urban ghetto. And that's called 'street credibility'.

People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.

Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.

On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!

People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before.

People come up to us and ask how we knew so much about their own family... I'm talking about people from faraway places, too. I get people from Turkey and Chile coming up to me and saying I wrote about their family.

Photographers who come up with power never get accused of imitating anyone else even though they photograph the same broom, same street, same portraits.

Plan. Yes. Good idea. I should come up with a plan.

People can never work out where they know me from. They just come up and chat with me like mates.

People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.

Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.

Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important one to you, and that is, what shall be done with the free negro?

So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.

Somebody will come up to me after a show and have me sign their arm, and the next time I see them my autograph has been permanently inscribed on their arm.

Some days I have a knot in my stomach because I've got to sit down and come up with something in womenswear that no one else came up with.

Quoting Scripture leads you to the fountain, but only if you plunge in and come up wet will I know that you are a Christian.

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.

Some people we know in our lives come up to a crossroads, and they could go left or right, and then end up in a totally different place.

That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.

Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.

The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.

The cup that went down under has now come up again.

The greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad's life.

That's the beauty of life, the uncertainty that we experience, literally, as we go about our day-to-day activities. We're not certain of anything, so fear comes up very often. Fear comes naturally.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

The federalism term is a good term, but it's just below the surface; it's just about to come up into wider public understanding that these practices are happening and are politically viable.

The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the right problem.

The living would come up with endless theories to argue, because the living were exceptionally good at arguing, especially when no one knew the answer.

The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.

The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

The most intoxicating thing about being an actor is to surrender to a story that you never would have come up with.

The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.

The people that work with you should generally come up with their own initiatives.

The more torque I can come up with, the better.

The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out.

The only thing that bothers me is that the girls come up to me and say, "I'm dating your ex-husband." I'm happy that he's dating girls and getting out.

Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

There's some *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys on my iPod. I listen to it if it comes up on shuffle.

[The Republicans] have come up with nothing. They say repeal and replace. That has alliteration.

The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement.