Come Up famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Today, ... anything you can come up with that works is worth trying.
-- Adam LaRoche -
It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.
-- Aimee Mann -
Drunken Master (the first one). If I hadn't seen this movie, I would never have come up with Dragonball.
-- Akira Toriyama -
People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.
-- Amber Tamblyn -
Seriously, I will probably out-talk you if you come up to me because I'm a chatterbox.
-- Angela Kinsey -
The people who created the crisis will not be the ones that come up with a solution
-- Arundhati Roy -
You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question.
-- Austin Kleon -
I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
-- Barry McGuire -
I enjoyed so much working with the guys from Wilco, and riffing off of them, and having someone come up to me with ideas, because normally in the studio it's me who has to come up with all the ideas.
-- Billy Bragg -
If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.
-- Brad Bird -
In Denmark lots of people come up to me for autographs.
-- Caroline Wozniacki -
Young players are starting to come up as well and they will see me as one of the older, experienced ones.
-- Caroline Wozniacki -
If fans come up to me, I talk to them.
-- Chester Bennington -
Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don't have the answers. And if you don't have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else's solutions will seem appropriate. You'll have to come up with your own.
-- Chuck Close -
Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you're worth?
-- Dar Williams -
To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel.
-- David Alan Grier -
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 -
Every game I played against Henri Richard, he'd come up to behind me at some point and say, 'My brother's better than your brother.'
-- Dennis Hull -
You've got to grab every opportunity that comes up.
-- Dominic West -
When you come up with a good idea, you dont have to do a whole lot. The idea does it for you.
-- Don Cornelius -
I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
-- Don Ellis -
Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.
-- Dorothy Day -
Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin.
-- Drake -
I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.
-- Emma Donoghue -
People come up to me and say, 'Emo, do people really come up to you?'
-- Emo Philips -
Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
-- Erma Bombeck -
They can make the wild ideas we come up with a reality.
-- Frank Bennett -
I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about
-- Gay Talese -
I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.
-- Gerrit Smith -
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 -
I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.
-- Grace Slick -
Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
-- Hank Aaron -
Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.
-- Harper Lee -
God told me once, 'I want you to come up to the lowest place.'
-- Heidi Baker -
It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.
-- Holly Black -
I've come up with the theory that the music is within. We don't bring it in; it's already there. We have to figure out how to get it out.
-- Howard Roberts -
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.
-- Huey Newton -
I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in.
-- Hugh Bonneville -
You slept with Curran and you didn’t tell me? I’m your best friend.†“It didn’t come up.†“How disappointing for you.†Ha-ha. “That’s not what I meant.
-- Ilona Andrews -
You can't come up with ideas if you don't see first.
-- Inge Druckrey -
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 -
And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment.
-- Jason Statham -
When you're an actor, actually, you shouldn't come up with too many ideas.
-- Jean-Louis Trintignant -
But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.
-- Jim Hodges -
In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.
-- Joe Pantoliano -
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 -
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.
-- John Hodgman -
If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.
-- John Lurie -
I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.
-- John Surtees -
Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage.
-- John Tesh -
One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.
-- Johnny Ramistella -
Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.
-- Jonah -
Race always comes up in the conversation of Detroit.
-- Julie Mehretu -
Next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.
-- Katharine Whitehorn -
When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.
-- Kathy Najimy -
When you come up in the slums, having nothin make you humble
-- Kevin Gates -
If a man comes up to me, I'm almost sure he's going to mention Rome, if it's a woman, it'll be 'Grey's Anatomy.
-- Kevin McKidd -
It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!
-- Kevin Nealon -
Eating has always come up whenever and wherever. Maybe it's because we're girls, we have a lot of interest in eating.
-- Kim Hyo-yeon -
I can't come up with any good reason why they [the INS] would unilaterally disarm.
-- Lamar S. Smith -
The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.
-- Laurie Halse Anderson -
Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn't work. You have to know somebody and have a conversation.
-- Leah Remini -
Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up.
-- Lee Atwater -
To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.
-- Les Paul -
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 -
People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before.
-- Louise Brown -
Challenges are opportunities for me to grow. The more I learn, the more equipped I am to handle whatever situations come up.
-- Louise Hay -
When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.
-- Mandy Patinkin -
I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.
-- Matthew Perry -
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.
-- Maynard James Keenan -
I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.
-- Michael Baden -
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 -
You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend.
-- Michael Piller -
Everywhere I go, people come up to me on the street and ask me if there’s going to be another one!
-- Mike Myers -
There are things that I would like to do, but I make a big distinction between liking to do something and wanting to do something. If there's something that I want to do I've done it. If there's something that comes up that I want to do I will do it.
-- Morgan Freeman -
In the '70s, you had to come up with an album every year whether you were ready or not.
-- Nick Lowe -
God's will is hard only when it comes up against our stubbornness, then it is as cruel as a ploughshare and as devastating as an earthquake.
-- Oswald Chambers -
I don’t know if you have had the same experience, but the snag I always come up against when I’m telling a story is this dashed difficult problem of where to begin it.
-- P. G. Wodehouse -
After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.
-- Pamela Stephenson -
Don't wait until you're in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.
-- Phil McGraw -
This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Messi and the Brazilian come up to Rafinha and say “you're one of us now kidâ€
-- Ray Hudson -
So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.
-- Rick Derringer -
If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.
-- Robert Breault -
When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.
-- Robert Crumb -
This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.
-- Robert Wyatt -
There's some *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys on my iPod. I listen to it if it comes up on shuffle.
-- Russell Wilson -
Perhaps there is a minimum distance that should separate one exhibit from another... Indeed those specialized in psychophysics have actually come up with some rules.
-- Semir Zeki -
Up! Children of Zulu, your day has come. Up! and destroy them all!
-- Shaka -
People can never work out where they know me from. They just come up and chat with me like mates.
-- Sheridan Smith -
I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.
-- Shigeru Miyamoto -
I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
-- Simon Callow