Where We Come Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I have come up the hard way.

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.

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

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

When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.

People come up to me and tell me they support me because I never left my principles.

Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

When many plants are out of the picture in winter, it becomes clear that many of them should be pitched out. It's also much easier to do that before they come up and begin to talk to us.

In fact, one reason I am interested in developing things in virtual reality is that they're so fascinating. I can come up with problems that are harder than warfare to take up people's time.

Sparrows and cats will live in my shoe, Sooner than I will live with you. Fish will come walking out of the sea, Sooner than you will come back to me.

I've had more people come up to me about 'Saving Silverman' than anything else. That and 'That Thing You Do!' But 'Saving Silverman' is the one I get most often. And I love that.

What are you - some kind of addict? Is this where you come to.

Movies are the greatest art form the world has come up with yet. If you don't use them to the full extent and you don't give people as much as you possibly can, you're doing a disservice to it.

I don't watch myself on TV, I don't read the news clippings about me, so when people come up and say, 'What about that story last week?' I go, 'I didn't even know there was.'

I was watching Discovery Channel the other day, and you know that they have come up with a new theory about how dinosaurs was wiped out? It was a midturn election.

To this day, people ask me where is Austin Powers 4? I don't have that answer, it so hard to come up with a story that deserves an encore like that.

Obviously, after the match your fans come up to you and really look but to you but you don't get too much recognition around town for playing for FC Dallas.

People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director.

I'd address his way of trying to discourage Ian later. After all, he could have come up with something other than saying I was a whiny, smelly, trumpet-snoring bad lay.

I thought bringing those two [Taylor Sheridan and David Mackenzie] together, odds are you're going to come up with something pretty good.

You project a version of yourself to the public to protect and insulate yourself a little bit. Actors come up with a version of themselves in order to protect the real person.

It's easier to come up with new stories than it is to finish the ones you already have. I think every author would feel that way.

When people feel safe, they can come up with ideas. It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.

One of the biggest problems with having a dream come true is recognizing it when it arrives.

Well, I hope before Glenn goes, he'll come up here so we can give him a big hug and a kiss, because that's the kind of guy he is.

I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up for me, or that I won't be able to finish it.

I don't ever wanna come across too intimidating, so as long as I look like you can come up and give me a hug, that's good.

Because I make films about eating disorders and sexual assault, people always come up to me and are like, "Are you okay?" like I'm a broken-down shell of a woman.

If the young filmmakers ask themselves enough questions and come up with enough answers and get the scripts tight enough.

TV depends very much on the pictures that you see on your television, and all the other things that come up on the screen, whether it be GFX, the studio or the pictures of the game.

The U.S. isn't a perfect place, but it's better than most people have managed to come up with. And all my stuff is there.

The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the right problem.

Thanksgiving, you know - Thanksgiving - it's like we didn't even try to come up with a tradition. The tradition is we overeat.

Charles Darwin got totally hammered, woke up next to a monkey and decided he had to come up with a theory to make it all okay.

If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with.

I think I know what my bandmates like or are interested in or would be interested in doing. I take ideas and I develop them, get rid of some ideas, keep writing, and then new things come up.

I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.

The measurement in this race is not where you come from, it is "what do you fight for."

People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. Like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.

James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

When jobs come up, like a low-budget film like The Last Exorcism, you say yes and you see where it takes you.

If you come up with a new product, you can very easily track its contribution to the bottom line. But often the challenge can be both large and subtle.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

I've never been convinced that the sun would come up without me barking.