Get Up Quotes - Page 38

• I found out about college radio and this whole noise genre blew me away. When I saw that guys could just get up there and have no traditional music ability and be in a band, it was really appealing to me.

  Girl Talk

  College, Guy, Band

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 30, 2006.

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• I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.

  Sydney Pollack

  Real, Home, Night

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• To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy ... is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Happiness, Happy, Morning

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• If you can't get up for an old woman on the bus, you can't be an officer in the IDF.

  Moshe Ya'alon

  Idf, Bus, Old Woman

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• Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not really gone, those dear hearts and true; they are only gone into the next room; and you will presently get up and follow them, and yonder door will close upon you, and you will be no more seen.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Heart, Doors

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “Roundabout Papers: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.241, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I wake up with new dreams every day. So the more I can do to channel that into things that I love to create is healthier for me and probably for everybody around me. And the older I get, the earlier I get up. The second my feet hit the floor, I'm awake. I'm like hurry, hurry. I just love life. And I feel like we ain't got but a certain amount of time anyway. I want to make the most of all of it.

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Love Life, Feet

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

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• Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"

  Frank Herbert

  Dirty, People, Leave Me Alone

  "Introduction" to "New World or No World" by Frank Herbert, 1970.

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• It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

  Peter Høeg

  Karma, Lying, Differences

  Peter Høeg (2015). “The Quiet Girl”, p.59, Random House

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• I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

  Felix Dennis

  Sleep, Tired, Should Have

  "What I know about women". Interview with Oliver Marre, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2006.

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• Rock stars are like prophets. There's something about somebody who can get up on a stage and sing. And then when they write you songs, forget it, okay?

  Pamela Anderson

  Song, Stars, Writing

  "Pamela Anderson: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. April 28, 2015.

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• If you get up in the morning and wear a pair of shorts and a t-shirt and some flip-flops, it's a signal that you might be going to the beach. If you get up in the morning and you wear a breast plate and a back plate and a cape and a pair of golden Satanic horns on your head, it's quite clear that you're doing something else.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Beach, Morning, Capes

  "Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Anthony Hopkins Interview THOR". Press Conference, collider.com. May 3, 2011.

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• I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams but I do believe in speaking by experience of having a lot of help along the way, stumbling in the past. We've all stumbled and we certainly all deserve to get up and walk again.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Dream, Believe, Kids

  "Dwayne Johnson and Julie Andrews Interview TOOTH FAIRY". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. January 19, 2010.

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• We shouldn't confuse singers and performers with actors. Actors will say, "My character this, and my character that." Like beating a dead horse. Who cares about the character? Just get up and act. You don't have to explain it to me.

  Bob Dylan

  Horse, Character, Who Cares

  Interview with Bill Flanagan, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 13, 2009.

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• In the UK a lot of people don't like to try. There's a different cultural thing. Here [in USA] if you try and fail, you get up again and start again and keep going. People respect you for it. Even if you keep failing, they respect the tenacity.

  Eddie Izzard

  Usa, People, Trying

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I don't like being on a horse. That's the only negative of doing a Western. I like the whole get up, and I look great in a hat. But I get tense around horses. So, if they could make a fake horse, then I'd do a Western.

  Adam Sandler

  Horse, Fake, Hats

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.

  Ann Romney

  Next Day, People, Example

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• My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Morning, Weakness, Arms

  "Joni Eareckson Tada on Wilberforce Award, 'Better Off Dead Than Disabled' Mentality". Interview with Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.

  Peter Temple

  Morning, Character, Plot

  "The unvarnished truth". Interview with Peter Craven, www.theaustralian.com.au. October 3, 2009.

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• I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little more worthy.

  George Ade

  Tired, Style, Different

  George Ade (1973). “Letters of George Ade”

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• Cause my wife gets up and goes shopping.

  James Garner

  Shopping, Wife, Causes

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", June 14, 2004.

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• I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Wish, Labs

  Ingrid Newkirk's remarks at the National Animal Rights Convention, June 27, 1997.

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• When people ask me, "Who was the toughest pitcher you ever faced?", I have to say that there has never been a pitcher who over-impressed me. That's not meant to be a bragging statement. It's just that I get up for good pitchers.

  Pete Rose

  People, Bragging, Pitcher

  Pete Rose, Whitehall, Hadlyme & Smith (1979). “Pete Rose: my life in baseball”, Doubleday Books

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• I wanna be strong, I wanna laugh along, I wanna belong to the living. Alive, alive, I wanna get up and jive, Wanna wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive.

  Joni Mitchell

  Strong, Laughing, Jukebox

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• I try to get up every day.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Trying

  "The Dick Cavett Show", September 9, 1969.

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• [W]hen the coyote falls, he gets up and brushes himself off; it's preservation of dignity. He's humiliated, and it worries him when he ends up looking like an accordion. A coyote isn't much, but it's better than being an accordion.

  Chuck Jones

  Fall, Worry, Coyotes

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