Quotes About Up

Lieutenant Tindall told me I'd find you up here tilting at putrid windmills. Now I know what he meant.

Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

I do like to think of myself as a star: because there's room for many stars up in the sky - and we all have the chance to shine bright.

But floating for an extended period is truly amazing. My brain is constantly trying to figure out which way is up. It's an interesting challenge, one I find slightly amusing.

The discovery of heroes is rarely linear or obvious. They usually sneak up on you.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty.

Oh, shut up. You're not alone. You're just having some idiotic dream.

At least if I was picking guys up in fits of drunken idiocy, they were not only handsome, but also even mildly clever.

Fire on the mountain," the granny woman said. "They up there sharpening they swords." Then she said that word again: freedom.

Rob turned the rustling pages and grinned. 'Ach, she's writ here: Oh, the dear Feegles ha' turned up again,' he said. This met with general applause. 'Ach, what a kind girl she is tae write that,' said Billy Bigchin. 'Can I see?' He read: Oh dear, the Feegles have turned up again. 'Ah,' he said.

They turned and looked him up and down. He could see the disdain in their eyes. They probably got through dozens like him every day. "Not got a daughter?" said one of them. "Wants people to kill dragons and he hasn't got a daughter?" Vimes felt, in an odd way, that he ought to support the lord of the city. "He's got a little dog that he's very fond of," he said helpfully.

I always thought, 'I could go the route of saying some controversial things and have it explode, just do it like that. But I don't do that.' But of course, it wasn't really up to me.

I served in two administrations very high up in the Justice Department.

It's up to Kim Jong Il to make that decision, and we can't make that for him.

I had adored my father and, in the classic Oedipal dance, had tried to find a romantic partner who measured up to him.

The higher the joy is not the light, it's the reflection. The greater pleasure is not climbing up; it's handing down

He spread his arms in benediction, like that Jesus statue in Brazil before the Maoists blew it up.

Aye aye, sir." Willie saluted and emerged into the sunlight, through the one loophole that military wisdom can never quite button up—the sympathy of the downtrodden for each other.

With that, the owl-eyed goddess flew away like a bird, up through the smoke.

Like the aristocracy, you can tell a reporter's status by his clothes and manners. The worse they are, the higher up they are

For the first time since his capture, fear came to Bond and crawled up his spine.

Believe it or not, I was a pretty shy youngster growing up.

Being a swimsuit model that talks so much on Twitter... everyone thinks that I could definitely pull back. You kind of open yourself up to all the criticism. That's definitely a big downside to this whole world. How can you complain about people critiquing your body when you're literally like, 'Look at my body!'

Positivity, confidence, and persistence are key in life, so never give up on yourself.