Straight Up Quotes - Page 5

• In 1977, I climbed a fairly difficult mountain for the first time, which was Mount McKinley, in Alaska. I climbed the so-called 'American Direct Route,' which was a route straight up to the top. I really enjoyed it. Through such experiences, I learned that mountaineering wasn't just about height. I found that different routes have different charms.

  Tamae Watanabe

  Alaska, Mountain, Different

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• I love movies that are just straight-up exploitation, but the ones that endure and the ones that last are the ones where the filmmakers put in that extra level of thought; after 25 years you put them on in front of an audience, and they'll respond to it and enjoy it.

  Eli Roth

  Years, Movie Love, Levels

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• Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Party, Men

  "Garofalo: Tea Party Goers Are Racists Who Hate Black President". "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.newsbusters.org. April 16, 2009.

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• My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.

  Mike Myers

  Father, Silly, Inspiration

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• Drake, I'd like to collaborate with. He's a phenomenal lyricist. Probably the best rapper in the world at the moment. I love Kanye but there's something about Drake; he's more straight up, really clever and really poetic and metaphorical - I love that. He's just clever.

  Ellie Goulding

  Clever, Rapper, World

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

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• I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.

  Andrew Gross

  Soccer, Mom, Daughter

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• Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!

  Margaret Cho

  Smile, Moving, Giving

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• God doesn't like lesbians," Grandma Huberman hised, throwing the magazine in the trash. Jennifer knew what lesbian meant, and she knew she probably was one. But she couldn't understand why God would hold that against her or against Monica Mathers, who'd never started a war or killed anybody, and whose deadeye three-pointers were straight-up amazing. After all, hadn't God made both of them? But people were like that, she'd noticed. They'd invoke Godly privilege at the weirdest of times and for the most stupid reasons.

  Libba Bray

  War, Stupid, Grandma

  "Beauty Queens". Book by Libba Bray, May 24, 2011.

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• The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing. Jack stood very still. The colossal head turned, the scaled lip only three feet from Jack. The golden eyes gazed at him, wirling with fiery color. Jack breathed in tiny, shallow breaths. Dont blink. Don't blink... Two gusts of wind erutped from the wyvern's nostrils Jack jumped straight up, bounced off the ground into another jump, and scrambled up the nearest tree. In the clearing, Gaston bent over, guffawing like an idiot. 'It's not funny!

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Dark, Color

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• Here's some more stuff we're going to need." 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio (large) 1 water pistol 1 bottle india ink 1 portable trampoline (collapsible) 1 bicycle w/basket 4 pizza boxes Jonah whistled. "I hope you've got some crazy evil-genius strategy, 'cause–straight up–I don't get it.

  Gordon Korman

  Crazy, Artist, Feet

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• Morfran thrust his axe straight up. He pretty much seemed to have one sign for everything: poke a hole in the sky.

  Ilona Andrews

  Sky, Holes, Poke

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.233, Penguin

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• So if you're not Artemis Fowl, then who are you?" The boy extended a dripping hand straight up. "My name is Orion. I am so pleased to meet you at last. I am, of course, your servant." Holly shook the proferred hand, thinking that manners were lovely, but she really needed someone cunning and ruthless right now, and this kid didn't appear to be very cunning.

  Eoin Colfer

  Kids, Thinking, Boys

  Eoin Colfer (2010). “Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex”, p.87, Penguin UK

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• 'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific.

  Eli Roth

  Moving, Perfect Guy, Cabins

  "24 Hours Of Horror With Eli Roth". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Don’t start on that. When I offered you her gifts, you told me to shove them straight up my back orifice. (Eros)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Eros

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2002). “Fantasy Lover”, p.98, Macmillan

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• ...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.

  William Faulkner

  Thinking, Two, People

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.

  Joan Jett

  Song, Thinking, Rocks

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

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• If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to the cause of his fear and is not deterred from doing that which is good -- which ultimately means for the sake of God, and therefore not from ambition or from fear of being taken for a coward -- this man, and he alone, is truly brave.

  Josef Pieper

  Fall, Taken, Ambition

  Josef Pieper (1966). “The four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• I looked out the window and saw this white light.It was zigzagging around. I went up to the pilot and said,Have you ever seen anything like that? He was shocked and he said, "Nope." And I said to him: "Let's follow it!" We followed it for several minutes. It was a bright white light.We followed it to Bakersfield, and all of a sudden to our utter amazement it went straight up into the heavens. When I got off the plane I told Nancy all about it.

  Ronald Reagan

  Light, White, Heaven

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• Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act. “The Signature of All Things” is a bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Truth, Adventure, Winning

  "The Botany of Desire" by Barbara Kingsolver, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2013.

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• Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be too long before bright young men and women set their eyes on careers in Earth orbit and say: "I want to work 200 kilometers from home-straight up!"

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Future, Eye, Home

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• Scoring 100 points is a lot, but I maybe could have scored 140 if they had played straight-up basketball.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Ifs

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