“I think there's definitely a way to tell a story, to also look at marriages that are working, but find drama from what's challenging them. That's what I think, certainly, 'Parenthood' is kind of about: the unexpected things that come up in your life that challenge you as a man, as a woman, as a husband and a wife, and as a parent.” ThinkingMenWayLooksKindStoriesParentChallengesWifeDramaHusbandCome UpUnexpectedParenthoodUnexpected Things Author:Jason Katims
“You cannot take a few people from one unit, throw them in with some from another, give them someone else's equipment, and hope to come up with a top-notch fighting unit.” PeopleGivingFightingCome UpUnitsEquipmentNotchesTop Notch Author:Charles Alvin Beckwith
“I mainly get my inspiration for writing from everyday situations and I come up with hypothetical scenarios and I can usually write a lot about that.” WritingI CanInspirationSituationEverydayCome UpScenariosHypothetical Author:Thomston
“I just chuck a bunch of words down and whether they find themselves into a song... I have lots of weird notes on my phone. I often come up with a phrase that I really like, I write it down and it stays in my notes folder, and when I'm writing I will scroll through and see if it kind of fits and if I can mould a verse around it.” IfsWritingKindI CanSongFitDown AndNotesPhonesCome UpBunchPhrasesVersesChuckMouldFolders Author:Thomston
“When I come up with something that I feel like people will connect with that makes me happy because I know that it would be something that would just go beyond me.” PeopleKnowsFeelsWould BeCome UpMake Me Happy Author:Thomston
“I feel like I make a soundtrack for the come up, and I feel like there's so many people that's trying to figure out how to chase their dreams, or that are in the process of chasing their dreams, so they connect with that. And then being a singer, you don't really get to touch on nothing either.” PeopleFeelsTryingDreamProcessFiguresCome UpSingersChasingSoundtracks Author:PJ Harvey
“Knitting is repetitive, rewarding, and calms me down like a warm bath. But it takes up juuuust enough brainspace that I can't come up with ideas. Which is too bad, because I love multitasking.” I CanIdeasEnoughCalmCome UpWarmBathsKnittingRepetitiveMultitasking Author:Vera Brosgol
“When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.” FallTheoryProvePaperPagesFalling In LoveSimplicityCome UpDetailsCracksSheetsPencilsEleganceProve ItSimplicity And ElegancePaper And Pencil Author:Michio Kaku
“You don't want to be told, "Hey, do whatever you want." That's what we think of when we think of play. It's the thing where you get to do whatever you come up with in your own mind, all bets are off, there's no boundaries.” ThinkingWantMindPlayCome UpBoundariesHeyDo Whatever You WantNo Boundaries Author:Ian Bogost
“Even when we tell kids to go play, what do the kids do? They come up with a set of constraints and structures. "Oh, we're gonna build a fort out of clothes, and now that we're in the fort we're going to pretend that we're prisoners," or whatever.” PlayKidsClothesStructureCome UpPrisonerConstraintsForts Author:Ian Bogost
“I would go to the craft services table and have Oreos or whatever, and a grown woman would come up to me and look at what I was eating and sigh and go, "I remember the days when I could eat like that." And I never knew what to say that, because I was 9.” LooksRememberEatingTablesCome UpCraftsSighOreosGrown Women Author:Mara Wilson
“In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my writing, we can address it. About five years ago, we wrote this episode of 'The Office,' called 'Diwali,' which seemed like an organic way of using it.” WayWritingTryingYearsTermFiveOfficeYears AgoCome UpDenyRelyFive YearsAddressesEpisodes Author:Mindy Kaling
“We have to let nature put what's left together, and see what it can come up with to save our ass.” TogetherLeftCome UpAss Author:Bill Mollison
“I'm just in that stage where I pray for God to show me how I can be effective in the world and things come up and I go. But I have yet to really dig in.” WorldI CanShowsStagePrayingCome UpShow MeI PrayPraying To God Author:India.Arie
“You really have to examine how long you are going to live in the house; budget and then you have to come up with a plan that fits within all of those things. Then you have to stop, sit down and stare at that plan for a couple of months, take your time and live with it in your mind. Once you've got your budget, plan it.” MindLongHousePlansMonthsCoupleFitDown AndCome UpBudgetsStaringTake Your Time Author:Bryan Baeumler
“For people with mental illness, taking care of the body is not an automatic thing. The mind is in such chaos it's hard to come up with a plan. So to people like us, it's more important than ever to follow a regimen.” PeopleMindImportantHardBodyCarePlansChaosCome UpIllnessMental Illness Author:Linda Hamilton
“People have said to me, 'Why don't you change your name?' And I've said, 'Fine, come up with a better name and we'll change it.' But no one has done that.” PeopleSaidDoneNamesFineCome Up Author:Bill Bright
“I don't really have any dream roles. It's just things, which come up.” DreamRolesCome Up Author:Asa Butterfield
“I went to art school and interned at DC, and then did the band. When that stuff comes up, you've gotta embrace it and run with it for as long as you can, and I did. I did that for as long as I felt I could.” LongArtRunningSchoolFeltStuffBandEmbraceCome UpArt School Author:Gerard Way
“No one comes up to me asking for a crack dealer's number. People come up to me to talk about lyrics, about music, about the band.” PeopleNumbersBandAskingCome UpCracksDealer Author:Pete Doherty
“We call for, on the other hand - how do you deal with ISIS [Islamic State], of course, is the question that comes up immediately, ISIS and other terrorist groups.” StatesHandsCoursesDealsGroupsCome UpTerroristIslamicIsisIslamic StateTerrorist Groups Author:Jill Stein
“This is where the question always come up, "Aren't you going to split the vote?" To which the obvious answer is: Well let's just rank peoples' choices. This is a voting system we use across the country, from San Francisco to Portland, Maine, and the Twin Cities. It's used very successfully in single-office elections like mayor. It could be used for governor.” WellsCountryUseUsedChoicesAnswersCitiesOfficeVoteElectionCome UpObviousVotingSplitsGovernorsTwinsSan FranciscoMayorsMainePortland Author:Jill Stein
“I read quite a few complaints last night about Lester Holt’s choice of debate topics. Liberals wanted to know why climate change didn’t come up. Conservatives thought there should have been a question about abortion.” KnowsShouldHas BeensWantedLastsNightChoicesShould HaveClimateClimate ChangeCome UpDebateAbortionComplaintsTopicsLast NightShould Have Been Author:Kevin Drum
“When people come up to me and say, "I was at your Game 7 in the playoffs in Toronto," or, "I saw your first goal in the NHL," that triggers memories. But I don't sit around my kitchen table and tell my kids, "You know, one year I got 92 goals."” PeopleKnowsYearsFirstsKidsGamesGoalMemoriesSawsTablesCome UpKitchenTriggersNhlTorontoPlayoffsKitchen Table Author:Wayne Gretzky
“If you come up with a new product, you can very easily track its contribution to the bottom line. But often the challenge can be both large and subtle.” IfsChallengesLinesProductsBottomTrackCome UpContributionSubtleBottom LineNew Products Author:John Kao
“I think all musicians and producers, they know the real goal is to come up with a record that is entertaining and not boring, that's the goal. I think if everyone agrees that that's the goal then it doesn't matter who's the band and it doesn't matter who's the producer. It just means that that you try to realise the ambition no matter what the situation is or who the people are.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTryingMeanRealMatterGoalSituationRecordsBandAmbitionMusicianNo Matter WhatAgreeCome UpBoringProducersRealisingEntertaining Author:Black Francis
“Sometimes a fan comes up to me, and I'm really interested in how they're acting, so I'll study them and use that in my material.” SometimesUseActingStudyFansMaterialsCome Up Author:Molly Shannon
“My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up with is second-hand, a passage in Jacques Pépin's autobiography (The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen) in which he describes prying snails from the terrace of his vacation home and cooking them up for dinner.” FirstsHas BeensI CanHomeHandsRememberCookingCome UpDinnerBest ThingsKitchenEncountersPassagesVacationLackingAutobiographyPinsApprenticeSnailSecond HandTerrace Author:Debra Hamel
“It happened the way I come up with any story, which is that I took elements of my own life and put them into the story, but in a very mixed-up way.” WayStoriesMy OwnHappenedElementsCome UpMy Own Life Author:Theodora Goss
“The only thing that bothers me is that the girls come up to me and say, "I'm dating your ex-husband." I'm happy that he's dating girls and getting out.” GirlHusbandDatingCome UpBotherExesEx HusbandYour Ex Author:Janet Jackson
“I'm right now wrapping up the sermon series on grace. I'd like to figure out what this next series will be in January. To do that, I'm going to come up with four or five really good ideas - at least that I think are really good ideas - and if I don't sense God really highlighting one of those, I will go to the elders of our church and my co-pastors.” IfsThinkingIdeasNextChurchFiveGraceFourFiguresRight NowSeriesCome UpGood IdeasPastorSermonsEldersJanuaryWrappingHighlightingWrapping Up Author:Max Lucado
“A lot of people have come up after Brookland and asked, "What happens to her at the end of the novel?" and I will very politely say, well, here are the two possibilities.” PeopleWellsTwoEndsHappensNovelPossibilityCome Up Author:Emily Barton
“The Greek language seems different than other languages. I'm not the only person to think this. Usually, I come up with some kind of dopey metaphor for why it's different. But it seems, somehow, more original, more like being in the morning of language.” ThinkingKindPersonsDifferentSeemsLanguageMorningOriginalsMetaphorCome UpGreek Author:Anne Carson
“Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.” FeltSoundAudiencePressureCome UpEpicSellersBest SellersEpic Poems Author:Anne Carson
“The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.” IdeasBigsProcessDifferencesObjectsBuildingCome Up Author:Zaha Hadid
“Two years ago I focused on one apartment to see how many variations you can come up with in a given space with the same parameters. I would work on this repeatedly for days and you see that there is maybe seven hundred options for one space. This exercise gives you an idea of the degree at which you can interpret the organization of space, it is not infinite but it's very large.” GivingYearsTwoIdeasGivenSpaceExerciseDegreesHundredYears AgoOrganizationInfiniteSevenCome UpFocusedTwo YearsApartmentVariationParametersTwo Years Ago Author:Zaha Hadid
“The people who are making a lot of money and eating at McDonald's and watching MTV and have square eyeballs, they're over there. And then maybe there's like five other people left in America and I'm just waiting for them to come up with something interesting.” PeopleAmericaLeftWaitingInterestingFiveEatingCome UpSquaresLots Of MoneyMcdonaldsMtvSomething InterestingEyeballs Author:Chrissie Hynde
“I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes up when we're all together. It's so fundamental to how I think.” ThinkingStillsTogetherRememberCertainLanguageFundamentalsCome UpEssays Author:Paul Beatty
“I had a student once come up to me and we were talking about this incident, and, of course, I never had the right thing to say. But later on, I realized I should have said: Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.” WorldShouldWritingTryingSaidCoursesTalkingChangedStudentsShould HaveCome UpI RealizedRight ThingChanging The WorldIncidentsTrying To ChangeRight Thing To Say Author:Paul Beatty
“In the past, we've always come up with new jobs for humans to do and so it's always benefitted us, technological progress, but now we're not really creating enough new jobs to replace the jobs that are being automated.” HumansEnoughJobsPastProgressCreatingCome UpTechnologicalNew JobTechnological Progress Author:Gemma Chan
“I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and then you use these words to create a story, but with music. And they really need to know how to mix and match those letters and how to come up with something that is really interesting, or speak in metaphors as poets do to show us something maybe we didn't think about.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsShouldStoriesUseShowsKidsTogetherSpeakInterestingKnow HowPoetMusic IsLettersMetaphorCome UpReally InterestingAlphabet Author:Terry Bozzio
“We've got a lot of violence in the world right now, a lot of upheaval in America with this election coming up, and a lot of unrest will come up from that.” WorldAmericaViolenceRight NowElectionCome UpUnrestUpheaval Author:Christine McCormick Day
“That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.” SituationCome UpDisposition Author:Paul Schrader
“I stay around for two or three hours after every show signing and taking pictures with everybody, and people come up and say hi and they say, "I didn't know what to expect but it was so different to what I imagined, it was so cool". I want to believe they're not lying. You know so, some people don't get it, some people do.” PeopleKnowsWantBelieveTwoDifferentShowsLyingThreeHoursCome UpSigningTaking Pictures Author:Chuck Mosley
“If something comes up that is completely freaky, it's spiritual-looking to the scientist, the first explanation is not going to be that it's God, because the history of that has failed. It would have to be, like, the hundredth explanation.” IfsFirstsSpiritualScientistCome UpExplanationFreaky Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The way people are responding to [Moonlight movie] is something we never anticipated. We knew it was good but it is so diverse. The way people are reacting shows me that everyone sees themselves in it. That is groundbreaking. Similarly people come up some older people that it is not their story but are just crying in our arms after a screening. They know what it was like to be bullied or struggled with their own identity trying to figure out who they are. It has really caught people's imaginations.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingStoriesShowsImaginationCryFiguresIdentityArmsCaughtCome UpDiverseShow MeMoonlightRespondingBulliedReactingScreeningOlder PeopleGroundbreaking Author:Andre Holland
“We've been human countless times and done everything you can imagine. So we've been planting all these negative seeds, and they're going to come up.” HumansDoneImagineNegativeCome UpSeeds Author:Tenzin Palmo
“"Statesman" gives the impression that every time a major issue comes up, I'll be popping off. And that's not what's going to happen.” GivingHappensIssuesMajorsCome UpImpressionStatesmenPopping Author:George W. Bush
“I could have easily not run for president, and people would have come up and said, "Oh, man, you would have been a great president." Or even a lousy president. But I never would have known had I not chosen to run. Part of life is seizing the moment.” PeopleMenHas BeensSaidMomentsRunningLife IsPresidentKnownCome UpChosenParts Of LifeSeizingGreat Presidents Author:George W. Bush
“I think it's good that you test the reality that surrounds you in your neighbourhood with the reality as it is in other parts of the world; you come up with a better judgment. I'm not meaning that literally you can only do that and not go to school at all but in terms of enrichment of a personality I think it's a fabulous thing.” ThinkingWorldRealitySchoolTermPersonalityJudgmentTestsCome UpSurroundFabulousEnrichmentNeighbourhoods Author:Pierre Trudeau