Where We Come Quotes

A lot of times if you want to get another agent, agents actually make you do monologues in their offices. They still do that! You've got to come up with something!

Every three or four shows, we have somebody that will come up onstage and propose marriage.

It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.

When I was writing this new bunch of songs, I was singing a lot lower, because they were more intimate in a way. I had to come up with a way to frame the music that was intimate.

I have come up the hard way.

One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.

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.

He left the key in the ignition. No one was likely to come up here and steal the truck- and if anyone did... well, he could deal with Charles

There are a lot of people that impacted me. I remember hearing Oscar Peterson live at the Blue Note, which was very expensive, but... $50 in the '80s... hard to come up with. But it was amazing.

Me and music are not good friends, so I do my best to augment the music part [of my films] and come up with something worth watching.

Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

Maybe that's where the new art comes in - to somehow have your eye on the marketplace and harness your art to come up with something you can be proud of creatively.

I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.

I've been offered radio but never done it, partly because the radio ideas that I've been asked to come up with, I've thought about them and then converted them to telly things.

You really have to work harder to come up with new ways to play the scenes.

I think that a lot of us at home are iron chefs in their own right in that we have to come up with meals real quickly.

Angry Birds is a very simple idea but its one of those games that I immediately appreciated when I first started playing, before wishing that I had been the one to come up with the idea first.

I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.

I hate birthdays. It's so funny, people always come up to me, "Hey! It's my birthday!" But when it's my birthday, I don't want to talk about it, I don't wanna tell anybody.

It's a pretty scary time. So many emotions come up and you don't really have the wisdom to make the right choices. You can really screw yourself in adolescence.

there is no fun than helping to make someone's dreams come true Especially when that person is ayoung person and who really want it and really dserve it

My mom is the greatest mom in the whole wide world. She's done everything for me to make my dreams come true.

Is there a point to your latest irritation, Kish? (Sin) Had a sudden death wish. Felt the deep need to come up here and have you freeze me. (Kish)

Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to significance.

People can never work out where they know me from. They just come up and chat with me like mates.

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.

Moms come up to me at book signings.

When kids come up to me and say. 'I want to be like you,' it fires me up. It's pretty cool.

I have so many people come up to me, 20-some years later, and saying, "I loved you in Jawbreaker!".

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.'

You start to do shows and people come up to me and say, "I wish more people were here, how come more people aren't here?" and that just starts to get a little.

I can come up sometimes with ideas for scenes that I'm not in, to make it better or add something. It's not about me, or my ego, that I wanna show this or that.

Sometimes people come up and they get infatuated with some little brief imagistic poem or something, and they say, "Oh, I really like your Zen poems." And I say, "Which ones are not Zen poems?"

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

I would be happier if it were a full audience full of drag queens. It would be my dreams come true.

When you actually get successful, if you became a recognized director, people would let you come up with an idea for a video and they would let you do it.

Do whatever you must, Karigan," he told her, his voice so quiet it would not carry, "to come back. You must come back. To me." ~King Zachary

I can’t help thinking about memoir as a down-and-up process: Dive down for color; come up for context. Sink back down for action; climb back up for self-awareness and gratitude.

If I go out with no make-up and a tracksuit on, nobody comes up to me. And if they do, I won't do a photo because I wouldn't want any photographic evidence.

I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.

Places I love come back to me like music, / Hush me and heal me when I am very tired.

It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won.

It is a great rush to come up with a joke that gets a good response from the audience. It's gold!

We can learn from mistakes of others, whether they're kings or our parents. When we do learn those lessons, we're better equipped to make our own dreams come true.

The answer to the question "where do good ideas come from" is always the same, the come from bad ideas. If you come up with 20 bad ideas you get one good one.

If a kid really is retarded and can only come up to a certain level, he will still have more success if what he learns is connected with something important to him.

I've had so many people just come up to me and say, 'When you came up on the screen, everybody in the theater applauded.' It's just so sweet, really.

With any show, when fans come up to you, they assume you're just like your character.