Come Up Quotes - Page 39

• 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.

  Mike Quade

  Baseball, Thinking, Games

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• I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Memories, Nice, Names

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• I've been in a serious conversation with one of my children, and a fan has come up. I've been in a public bathroom and had the hand come under the stall with a paper and pen. That sort of thing anybody can live without.

  Helen Reddy

  Children, Hands, Paper

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• I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.

  Shawn Ryan

  Team, Thinking, Years

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• You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.

  Wayne Rogers

  Eye, People, Meals

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• People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something.

  Chad Smith

  People, Fans, Band

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• People always come up to me and say, Oh, you're Chloe Se-VIG-ny, right? Sevigny. Number seven, letter e.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Numbers, People, Chloe

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• My perfect day is constantly changing. Right now, it would be to lie around in a hammock reading with a portable phone and a table of food next to it. I would spend all day there. And that's all that I can possibly come up with on the spur of the moment.

  Eric Stoltz

  Lying, Reading, Phones

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• I do know that all of the Michigan delegation worked very hard as related to the revival of the auto industry. There was really a choice between bankruptcy and liquidation. There was no one that was willing to come up not only with the cash to keep them afloat but also to serve the warranties of everyone, you and I that drive all these cars. There was no one that could have picked up those pieces other than the federal government. [The auto bailout was] bipartisan from the get-go. [Without it,] Michigan would have hit 40 percent unemployment rates.

  Fred Upton

  Government, Car, Choices

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• I think that it has to be a very humane approach to this issue, and we have to come up with solutions to it. But we also have to do something about the drugs that are coming across our southern border that are killing our kids... I think there are some people who want to leave this country and return to the country they came from, but obviously it requires a broader solution that that, and we all know that.

  John McCain

  Country, Kids, Thinking

  John McCain Slams Mitt Romney’s ‘Self-Deportation,’ Advocates ‘Humane Approach’ To Immigration" by Mollie Reilly, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

  Jo Stafford

  Thinking, Albums, Tough

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• I've been very lucky in the freedom that I've been given. Every artist needs two types of freedom: You need the freedom to - the freedom to come up with an idea or treatment - and then you need the other half of the freedom, and that's freedom from - somebody saying, 'This is great. This is how I want you to do it'.

  Steve Sabol

  Artist, Ideas, Two

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.

  Todd Solondz

  Nice, Mean, Loss

  Interview with Sigrid Nunez, www.believermag.com. February 2005.

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• People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.

  Zack Snyder

  Nice, People, Superhero

  "Zack Snyder on ‘Watchmen’ legacy as ‘the anti- “Avengers” movie’". Interview with Patrick Kevin Day, herocomplex.latimes.com. November 12, 2012.

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• People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.

  Amber Tamblyn

  People, Invites

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• It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

  David Tang

  Challenges, Age, World

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• 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.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Book, Writing, Important

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• There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.

  Verne Troyer

  Cutting, Good Friend, Attention

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our work on light bulbs wasn't an arbitrary mandate. We didn't just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable.

  Fred Upton

  Light, Air, Environmental

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• Usually I'm the one who does the covers. And I just said, man, it would be nice to see what somebody else could do, outside of this thing. A fresher look. And I never, in a million years, would have come up with this. Believe me!

  Alan Vega

  Nice, Believe, Men

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• Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

  Conrad Veidt

  Expectations, Hollywood, Enough

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

  Holly Valance

  Girlfriend, People, Sitting Down

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• In Denmark lots of people come up to me for autographs.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  People, Denmark, Signing Autographs

  "Australian Open 2011: Caroline Wozniacki determined to win first slam" by Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2011.

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• I think a lot of kids get scared by 'E.T.' Sometimes when I do the science-fiction conventions, I'll have a 35-year-old guy with tatts and piercings all over, and he comes up and says, 'You know, it scared me so much I still can't watch it.

  Dee Wallace

  Kids, Thinking, Years

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

  Dominic West

  Opportunity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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