Come Up Quotes - Page 17

• I think American men are more conscious of putting up a good impression. There's more of an earthiness to Englishmen. But Americans aren't afraid to come up and say, "Hi, I'd like to go out with you." Englishmen are far more sheepish about it.

  Sienna Miller

  Men, Thinking, Conscious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up.

  Val Kilmer

  Military, Leader, Secret

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• When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.

  Sam Trammell

  Country, Tree, Hot

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When something comes up that attacks peoples beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.

  J. D. Pardo

  Firsts, Belief, Reactions

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• It's not that I find it hard to meet girls - they do come up and chat me up from time to time. Sometimes I'm interested, I tend not to go for the prettier ones. I prefer the quirkier types.

  Rupert Grint

  Girl, Dating, Quirky

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

  Debi Mazar

  Cooking, Type, Dump

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• "Into the Woods" was... a lot of running around in the woods! I can't wait to see the show again. People didn't realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark.

  Bernadette Peters

  Running, Kids, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Lexa Doig

  School, Brain, Wanted

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• If somebody asked me to come up with a mental image of my hockey career, there is absolutely no doubt I would be wearing the uniform of the Vancouver Canucks in it.

  Trevor Linden

  Hockey, Careers, Doubt

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• One night I was in the players' parking lot at the Fleet Center in my Celtics warm-ups about a half hour before a game, waiting for one of my dealers to come up from Fall River, because if I didn't get my stuff I was too sick to even go through the pre-game layup line, never mind actually play in the game.

  Chris Herren

  Fall, Player, Night

  Chris Herren, Bill Reynolds (2011). “Basketball Junkie: A Memoir”, p.174, Macmillan

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• The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Mistake, Lines

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4050, Delphi Classics

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• When someone comes up and says something like, 'I am a god,' everybody says 'Who does he think he is?' I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That's who I think I am.

  Kanye West

  Hate, Thinking, Doe

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• [A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free. ... You sit at a bar with an editor at a show and you see 19 people come up and pitch ideas at them. If everybody writing the top 20 books all quit and demanded, 'Union now, union forever,' those 19 guys would be getting phone calls. There will never be a union. I think things are getting better - I bet things have never been so good - but there will never be a union.

  Matt Fraction

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• Before we start talking about genetic differences, you gotta come up with a system where there's equal opportunity.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Opportunity, Talking, Differences

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• Why don't you come up sometime 'n see me? I'm home every evening. . . . Come up. I'll tell your fortune. . . . Ah, you can be had.

  Mae West

  Home, Evening, Fortune

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• I've learned over a period of years there are setbacks when you come up against the immovable object; sometimes the object doesn't move.

  Coleman Young

  Moving, Years, Sometimes

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• The history of the Web so far says that we are highly motivated to come up with ways to make sense of a world richer and more interesting than the constrained resources of the traditional media let on.

  Andrew Keen

  Media, Interesting, World

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• Well, I think finding the weapons of mass destruction is going to be quite time consuming. I know we've uncovered some documents, we'll have to exploit them, and we're going to have to blanket a country the size of California and search, I think, quite rigorously, but we'll come up with them.

  Richard Armitage

  Country, Thinking, Mass Destruction

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• People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Humor, People

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• We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Real, War, Views

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• The sun would come up over the ocean, and we'd be eating scrambled eggs before we shot some stuff. It was a vacation in the sense that it was the best working conditions.

  Marguerite Moreau

  Ocean, Vacation, Ice Cream

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• One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one.

  James Gunn

  Ideas, Dozen, Brilliant

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• I usually just pick a genre of movie that I feel like saluting and then go off and come up with something that I can sort of pay homage to. That's the great thing about our show is we've sort of created a landscape for 'Psych' where we're kind of allowed to go off and give shout-outs to movies that we love, genres that we love.

  James Roday

  Love, Psych, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Minor White

  Portraits, Photographer, Brooms

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• Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.

  William P. Leahy

  Talking, Issues, People

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