Come Up Quotes

Humor is necessary - it allows the reader to come up for air before dunking them under again. I need humor and I need it on the page to keep the reader going.

To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?

I now find magic in the mundane. I'm also more creative - better able to look beyond the obvious and come up with new story angles.

If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, "'The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie."

That's the beauty of life, the uncertainty that we experience, literally, as we go about our day-to-day activities. We're not certain of anything, so fear comes up very often. Fear comes naturally.

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.

When I get some budding young comic who'll come up to me and say, 'What was it like to do it in those days?' I try to be as gracious to him as Stan Laurel was to me.

They did ask me to do 'Dancing With The Stars;' I said I can do one show, but on that show you have to come up with a new number every week, and I told them that I think I'm a little past that stage.

I write a little something every day, even though I don't write a song [every day]. Everything inspires me. I'll come up with a line, or somebody will say something that will trigger something.

You've got to grab every opportunity that comes up.

We'll be submitting healthcare sometime in early March [2017], mid March, and after that, we're going to come up, and we're doing very well on tax reform.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer or King Crimson or Gentle Giant - the worst prog rock references I can come up with. Though I totally loved those groups as a kid.

If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external events you cannot accept at all.

I think we work well when there are absolutely no distractions whatsoever, because we tend to come up with the best ideas around one or two in the morning, so you have to be plugging away.

Don't criticise a hypothesis, come up with a better one.

I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

You can't come up against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and not accept the risk. If they want to get you, over time they will.

I've been in things that have impressed people and they've come up to congratulate you but in a kind of, you-must-think-you're-really-special way.

People come up to me on the street and say, 'Men at Work is the funniest movie I ever saw in my life'. But, you know, I do have to question how many movies these people have seen.

A lot of people have come up after Brookland and asked, "What happens to her at the end of the novel?" and I will very politely say, well, here are the two possibilities.

I've never considered stand-up. Luckily I'm given great lines to say. I'm not sure how great my timing would be if I actually had to come up with my own jokes.

I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.

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

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

Some people come up and ask for an autograph and don't even look at me. They're like, 'Here, do it.' That don't bother me, but it doesn't open my heart.

When people come up to me and say 'oh, your singing made me cry', it's nice to realise that you're making other people happy, but I don't know how I do it. I just sing.

I have been sought out by a number of people who would have felt uncomfortable coming to a large public meditation. They don't want people to come up and ask for autographs.

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

I don't have enough information, and enough courage, to come up with a definite version of events. And I think it is too dangerous for me to do so.

I tried to come up with a definition of this new paradigm in six articles entitled "Russia after Putin." I would consider Russia's integration into Europe the most important element of this strategy.

If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.

Interesting form of murder we come up with: Assassination. We assassinate people who've told us to live together in harmony and try to love one another. Apparently we are not ready to live together.

As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing.

If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.

"Statesman" gives the impression that every time a major issue comes up, I'll be popping off. And that's not what's going to happen.

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

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.

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.

I guess a lot of bands play around until they come up with something they like.

I'm not turning my back on classical theater. It's all about opportunities and timing a lot of the time when things come up.

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

It’s hard to come up with a scheme to thwart some other scheme you don’t even know about.

I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in.

I was kind of relieved with the way the book [The Proud Highway] came out. It's beyond an autobiography or a biography. I never knew what was going to come up next.

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

And if somebody's going to produce me, they should be producing my sound for me. And that's something I have to come up with myself.

I have met thousands of children now, and not even one time has a child come up to me and said, 'Ms. Rowling, I'm so glad I've read these books because now I want to be a witch.'