Come Up Quotes - Page 26

• You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days.

  Beth Gibbons

  Trying, Three, Needs

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• Every movie goes through that U-shape where you start with 'Oh that's a great idea. I love it.' Everything's possible and then you face 'Oh, we can't do that, and that's impossible, and that's a bad choice.' You go the practicality of it. And then you come up to 'Great.' But that middle part is when you don't have results yet.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Ideas, Choices, Shapes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Goran Visnjic

  Guy, Accents, Eastern

  Radio Times, April 2007.

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• I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.

  Devon Werkheiser

  Taken, Kids, Parent

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• The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!

  Novalis

  Art, Book, Writing

  "Pollen and Fragments". Book by Novalis. Fragment No. 114, 1798.

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• When people come up and give me a compliment... I take each remark as if it were a flower. At the end of the day I lift up the bouquet of flowers I have gathered throughout the day and say, 'Here you are, Lord, it is all Yours.'

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Flower, People, Giving

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• God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

  Robert South

  Easter, Men, Dresses

  Robert South (1727). “Twelve Sermons ...”, p.286

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• You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.

  Steven C. Hawthorne

  Missionary, Purpose, Christianity

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• The military doesn't teach rifle marksmanship. It teaches equipment familiarity. Despite what the officer corps thinks, learning to shoot a rifle is not like learning to drive a car. Instead, it is like learning to play the violin.... The equipment familiarity learning curve comes up quick, but then the rifle marksmanship continuation of the curve rises very slowly....by shooting one careful shot at a time, carefully inspecting the result (and the cause).

  Daryl Davis

  Military, Gun, Thinking

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• And all the times I was picking up potatoes, I did have conversations with them. Too, I did have thinks of all their growing days there in the ground, and all the things they did hear. Earth-voices are glad voices, and earth-songs come up from the ground through the plants; and in their flowering, and in the days before these days are come, they do tell the earth-songs to the wind ... I have thinks these potatoes growing here did have knowings of star-songs.

  Opal Whiteley

  Song, Stars, Thinking

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• All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.

  Isaiah

  Song, Fall, Tree

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• What you have to get used to as a writer is realizing that most of what you come up with is wrong for the show.

  Michael Loceff

  Realizing, Used, Shows

  "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.

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• To have the United States suddenly come up with a peace proposal after a whole series of terrorist attacks is going to show to the world that this sort of method is something that western societies can't stand.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  United States, World, Proposal

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• It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club

  Lance Armstrong

  Feelings, Up To You, Clubs

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• Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.

  Margaret Fuller

  Men, Spirit, Standards

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.65

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• 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.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Thinking, Study, Possibility

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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• 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.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Fun, Knows

  "When life becomes a bad novel". Salon interview, 1996.

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

  Theodore White

  Jobs, Ideas, Intellect

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• Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor.

  Drew Barrymore

  Girl, Advice, Survivor

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• If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech writer.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Winning, Political, Competition

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• You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.

  Barack Obama

  Optimal, Solutions

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• Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

  John Cleese

  Long, Giving, Mind

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• We need to be in the open mode when we are pondering a problem, but, once we come up with a solution, we must then switch to the closed mode to implement it.

  John Cleese

  Needs, Problem, Pondering

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• The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is subject to the selective action of the norm of conspicuous waste, the range within which innovation can take place is somewhat restricted. The innovation must not only be more beautiful, or perhaps oftener less offensive, than that which it displaces, but it must also come up to the accepted standard of expensiveness.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Beautiful, Fashion, Expression

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.93, M.E. Sharpe

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• I grew up poor. I had no money. My family was poor. There's things I wanted to do and couldn't. I was an abused wife. Just - there's tons of things that I couldn't even mention. And for me to come up and to have all of this fame and fortune, it's just - it is a Cinderella story to me.

  Anna Nicole Smith

  Wife, My Family, Fame

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

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