Where We Come Quotes

Lovely was my compliment. Could you not come up with your own?" "Lord Paen said compliment her, he did not say we had to be creative about it," the second man pointed out with a shrug

I'm for democracy, but imposing democracy is an oxymoron. People have to choose democracy, and it has to come up from below.

I always did like a man in uniform. And that one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me?

I don't even notice the advertisement that comes up on my screen. I'm a smart person and it's just something I've just blacked out because it doesn't seem right to me.

You have to come up in the world before it's worthwhile for those worth less to put you down.

When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.

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.

People come up to me all the time and ask how I stay the way I am, and it's no secret. The first lesson a chef needs to learn is how to handle a knife; the second is how to be around all that food.

Brexit and Trump's election are forcing countries to come up with new radical ideas.

When you make a film that is based in reality, reality will come up all around it.

I've always felt that I need to be somebody in the middle of the lineup that's going to drive in runs and come up with big hits.

If you can come up with a snappy little slogan, then you have a future in winning tagline competitions or being a political speech writer.

...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.

Yes! it takes courage to act upon your dreams.

We try to effectively free ourselves up to be creative, to think about what might be possible, to come up with truly innovative ways to enact our values-driven positions.

I never know why people come up to me. I think a lot of them just get super-excited because they recognize me from TV but they don't remember where.

As a dream comes true, it falls flat.

Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I'm already in the process of working on a book. You have to watch out with the slutty new idea.

If I could do it over, I'd want to come up to the big leagues like Mike Trout. He's exciting and I like watching him.

I don't like when people relying on me in any kind of business way. I'm just a writer. I'm just noodling around and trying to come up with great characters and fun ideas.

When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to.

What are you?" I asked. "I'm the Ghost of the Night Before Exams." "And how long did it take you to come up with that?" Jazza asked. "I'm a busy man," he replied.

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.

My head's filled up with all the reasons it won't work. And I keep running the figures, over and over, but I can't seem to come up with an answer.

If the truth will come out only in the darkness, then let the lights go off!

I talked with [ Blair Macon] a lot. I always like to come up with it - sometimes the filmmaker is not into it at all.

I've come up against a few challenges. I've just taken them on with a really pure energy. I'm not out to change people's minds. I'm out to maybe educate and inspire.

Rap is purging itself from the things it didn't need and it's allowing the younger dudes to come up. With that being said you're always going to need people from that golden era.

I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.

I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'

The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.

I wait for good opportunities to come up to do stuff; I'm not seeking things. I'm quite busy in the meantime, but if the right thing came up, I would be happy to do it.

With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.

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.

I think a band that doesn't have a sense of humor can come up with their own take on whimsy.Kind of lead-footed and ham-handed, but I think just all the better for that.

I guess people recognize me, but I'm not a household name. Two out of every five people who come up to me know my name. The one thing I don't want is to be followed by paparazzi.

You will never come up against a greater adversary than your own potential, my young friend.

Nothing is a violent as football and I bet you like. Just say you don't like it, or can't identify, don't come up with excuses like "It's too violent" while you wear some team's NFL jersey.

Some people come up to me and say "You know, in Italy, it's pronounced Ber-beel-lia" And I say "Well, here in America, you're annoying..."

If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?

Actually, it's great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions.

Everywhere I go, people come up to me on the street and ask me if there’s going to be another one!

Its a good feeling when people come up to you and tell you your music helps them, and as long as it does, I'll keep making it.

They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

I don't put a lot of pressure on myself when I'm writing. It feels like if I come up with something good, or I come up with something bad, I'm not too worried.

There are certain songs that if people come up to me and tell me how much that song meant to them, I think, You should have better taste, then, because I don't really like that song.

People from outer space they come up to me, they don't look like Doctor Spock, they don't look like Klingons, all that Star Trek jive. They look like Elvis.

A lot of times people come up to me saying 'oh my god you can see,' and they think they're the first person to think of that joke, but they're probably the 10,000th one to say that joke.