Come Up Quotes

Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.

An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.

People have said to me, 'Why don't you change your name?' And I've said, 'Fine, come up with a better name and we'll change it.' But no one has done that.

The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.

Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth

I surprised myself, that I was in the tissue of the character enough, that I could actually come up with something that I didn't actually feel or didn't believe.

Mathematics-a wonderful science, but it hasn't yet come up with a way to divide one tricycle between three small boys.

To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.

It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

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

I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show.

If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.

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.

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.

The sower may mistake and sow his peas crookedly; the peas make no mistake, but come up and show his line.

The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement.

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

You always need something to complain about. And if you can't come up with anything better, you come along with team leaders. I don't believe in this chitchat.

I'm not limited to categories or genres. Anything human beings come up with fascinates me. If a three-legged idiot like me can dance to it, then that's all well and fine.

I'll just be sitting down having dinner with girlfriends or something and people come up and ruin the dinner.

[The Republicans] have come up with nothing. They say repeal and replace. That has alliteration.

I'm just in that stage where I pray for God to show me how I can be effective in the world and things come up and I go. But I have yet to really dig in.

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

I try not to observe myself in the process of composing a poem because I don't want to come up with a formula, which I would then be unscrupulous in using.

I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.

There is a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.' - Boston, Mass., Oct. 3, 2000

In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.

The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and had 2 or 3 ministers and book groups from a couple of churches.

When you've got good actors, they're going to come up with good stuff, but you're never quite sure how the dynamics are going to work between them.

It is time for everyone to sit down -the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity-and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.

Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning.

How come liberals never admit that they're liberal? They've now come up with a new word called 'progressive,' which I thought was an insurance company but apparently it's a label.

I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

Knitting is repetitive, rewarding, and calms me down like a warm bath. But it takes up juuuust enough brainspace that I can't come up with ideas. Which is too bad, because I love multitasking.

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.

If your mind is at work, we're in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can keep our minds out of it and our thoughts out of it, maybe we'll come up with something original.

When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.

If somebody asked me to come up with a mental image of my hockey career, there is absolutely no doubt I would be wearing the uniform of the Vancouver Canucks in it.

Indecision is a major time waster; 80% of decisions should be made the first time they come up

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

Our goal is not to ignore the problems of life, but to put ourselves in better mental and emotional states where we can not only come up with solutions, but act upon them.

Evil comes up softly like a flower.

I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come up with something.

There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.

If you really examine your own opinions, you'll normally come up with a better one

We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.

They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.

I hate it when people come up to me on trains and ask 'Are you Soulja Boy?' If people want pictures or autographs, that's cool, but I don't like the dumb questions.

If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight?