Come Up Quotes - Page 32

• The trees come up to my window like the yearning voice of the dumb earth

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Voice, Tree, Dumb

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Stray Birds”, p.7, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway.

  Rich Sommer

  Writing, Men, Thinking

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• I'm not envious of many things in the world, but I wish I would have come up with that maneuver That is a perfect way to finish off an opponent.

  William Regal

  Perfect, Wish, World

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• I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.

  Joanna Garcia

  Dark, Worry, Mind

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

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• Its really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, I usually dont like female comedians, but your material is great! It makes the job prospect more daunting. Funny is funny, you know?

  Chelsea Peretti

  Jobs, People, Comedian

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• The thing that is uncomfortable is when people kind of stare for a long time and point. That gets weird. Id much prefer someone to come up to me and say something.

  Brandon Jay McLaren

  Long, People, Kind

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• As movies and TV projects come up, they go out to the agents and we just go out and audition for them.

  James Frain

  Agents, Auditions, Tvs

  "James Frain Exclusive Interview TRON: LEGACY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 27, 2010.

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• Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

  Plautus

  Spring, Men, Oats

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 344-45, Trinummus, IV. 4. 128, 1922.

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• Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Men, Luck, Mouths

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• Voices of the glorified urge us onward. They who have passed from the semblances of time to the realities of eternity call upon us to advance. The rest that awaits us invites us forward. We do not pine for our rest before God wills it. We long for no inglorious rest. We are thankful rather for the invaluable training of difficulty, the loving discipline of danger and strife. Yet in the midst of it all the prospect of rest invites us heavenward. Through all, and above all, God cries, "Go forward!" "Come up higher!

  William James

  Reality, Voice, Discipline

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 564, 1895.

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• I have just come up with a wonderful solution to end all wars. Let me give directions on how to get there.

  Erma Bombeck

  War, Men, Giving

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• The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime. All the wild seeds of weed and thistle, the sprouts of vine and bush and tree, are trying to take the fields. Farmers must fight them with harrow and plow and hoe; they must plant the good seeds quickly.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Weed, Spring, Fighting

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1933). “Farmer Boy”

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• I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Country, Sex, Today

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• If you were starting from scratch to invent an instrument that could impose fiscal discipline, the last one on earth you would come up with is the United States government.

  Meg Greenfield

  Government, Discipline, United States

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• I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Sorry, Memories, Dad

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• Bringing up children is not a real occupation, because children come up just the same, brought or not.

  Germaine Greer

  Children, Real, Occupation

  Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

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• I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?

  Mae West

  Flirting, Men, Uniforms

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• The contradictions the mind comes up against, these are the only realities, the criterion of the real. There is no contradiction in what is imaginary. Contradiction is the test of necessity.

  Simone Weil

  Real, Mind, Tests

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• Cats vary so widely that all data is meaningless and the professional classifiers gnash their teeth trying to come up with even a single fact common to all.

  Barbara Holland

  Cat, Data, Trying

  Barbara Holland (1994). “Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives”, Ivy Books

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• It's a glorious universe the positive thinkers have come up with, a vast, shimmering aurora borealis in which desires mingle freely with their realizations. ... Dreams go out and fulfill themselves; wishes need only to be articulated.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Dream, Thinking, Optimism

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2009). “Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America”, p.73, Metropolitan Books

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• I feel very happy to see the sun come up every day. I feel happy to be around. ... I like to take this day- any day-and go to town with it.

  James Dickey

  Towns, Sun, Very Happy

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• Come up, April, though the valley, / In your robes of beauty drest, / Come and wake your flowery children / From their wintry beds of rest.

  Phoebe Cary

  Children, Bed, Valleys

  Phoebe Cary (1882). “The Poetical Works of Alice and Phoebe Cary”

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• These Seattle Seahawks wide receivers have been called pedestrian, they've been called no-namers, but they always come up with the big play.

  Nate Burleson

  Play, Nfl, Super Bowl

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• Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.

  Taner Edis

  Religion, Able, Mechanic

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• When people feel safe, they can come up with ideas. It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Ideas, People, Important

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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