All Quotes

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Up until the last minute, it was art and drawing for me. That was the first real and natural thing I thought I was good at and loved to do. But I developed a similar kind of love for music.
‐‐ James Bay

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.
‐‐ Phil Knight

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.
‐‐ Antonio Banderas

Up until the time I was cast in 'Star Trek,' the roles were pretty shallow - thin, stereotyped, one-dimensional roles. I knew this character was a breakthrough role, certainly for me as an individual actor but also for the image of an Asian character: no accent, a member of the elite leadership team.
‐‐ George Takei

Up until the time Turner Broadcasting bought Hanna-Barbera, it was essentially an independent studio whose planning cycle had to be nine months. You got a pickup in January, and you put it on the air in September. That's been the cycle.
‐‐ Fred Seibert

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.
‐‐ Stephen Gardiner

'Up' was the best. The first 10 minutes of that movie made me weep. It was so well done... even if that montage was all I'd seen, just as a short film, that was great. That was my favorite thing of the year.
‐‐ Charlyne Yi

Up, you mighty race, accomplish what you will.
‐‐ Marcus Garvey

Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest of the altruistic scum of the earth. Why do these people want to feel good? They want to feel good in order to convince themselves that they are good.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Upbuilding is necessary for the uplifting of our soul... Indonesia must be a strong country packed with factories. This is our utopia.
‐‐ Sukarno

Updating passwords and changing them all the time is something I'm involved in.
‐‐ Christian Slater

Upfronts are all about ad sales.
‐‐ Bryan Fuller

Upholding human rights is not merely compatible with fighting terrorism, it is essential.
‐‐ Joichi Ito

Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn - a first step, if you will.
‐‐ Michael N. Castle

Upon awakening in the morning, I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.
‐‐ Gene Tunney

Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
‐‐ Harry S Truman

Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.
‐‐ Gary Cohn

Upon graduation from high school, following my brother by a couple of years, I joined the U.S. Air Force.
‐‐ Dennis L. McKiernan

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.
‐‐ Koichi Tanaka

Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines.
‐‐ Claude McKay

Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
‐‐ Caleb Cushing

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
‐‐ Sam Sheppard

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

Upon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover

Upon the principles of reason, the good of many is preferable to the good of a few or of one; a lasting good is to be preferred before a temporary, the public before the private.
‐‐ Mary Astell

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

Upon the union of the male germ cell with the female egg cell, a new cell is created which almost immediately splits into two parts. One of these grows rapidly, creating the human body of the individual with all its organs, and dies only with the individual.
‐‐ Christian Lous Lange

Upon the whole it was a Glorious day-Our men are in the Spirits-and I am confident we shall give them a total defeat the next Action; which is at no great distance.
‐‐ Anthony Wayne

Upon this the Hungarian ministers resigned, but the names submitted by the president of the council, at the demand of the king, were not approved of for successors.
‐‐ Lajos Kossuth

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.
‐‐ Millard Fillmore

Upper berth, lower berth, that's the difference between talent and genius.
‐‐ George Gershwin

Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
‐‐ Ayn Rand

Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.
‐‐ Dale Archer

UPS stands as an example of a company that's already doing great things.
‐‐ Steven Horsford

Upsetting the dope is a favorite pastime in baseball. Past performances count for but little in the national pastime. Reputations don't get you anywhere. A club is judged solely on results, and to get results, you must win ball games.
‐‐ Billy Evans

'Upside Down' is a fantasy love story. It's about love at first sight - when you just fall in love instantly and will battle any obstacle to be with that girl.
‐‐ Jim Sturgess

'Upstairs Downstairs' and 'Downton Abbey' appeal to people because they're about our history, they look so beautiful, are written by amazing writers and have high production values.
‐‐ Keeley Hawes

'Upstairs Downstairs' somehow bestrode the different genres that had come before it to create a new drama entity. I suppose that's one of the reasons why it became so instantly popular.
‐‐ Ed Stoppard

Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that.
‐‐ Paul Reiser

'Upstream Color' in particular, it's got to infect culture at some level in order to have a life of its own. Then it'll be judged, and it'll either live or it won't by its own merit, and history will decide whether it's relevant however long into the future. I think that's more than enough to hope for.
‐‐ Shane Carruth

Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson

Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
‐‐ Magic Johnson

Urban areas tend to attract members of the 'knowledge class' - people who work with ideas, data, information.
‐‐ Nancy Pearcey

Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.
‐‐ Moshe Safdie

Urban development in India... will be the biggest sunrise industry that any country has seen in any part of the world.
‐‐ Kushal Pal Singh