Quotes of: Standing-up Keyword

With stand-up, it's more interesting to hear about people's failures than their successes.

Aziz Ansari

I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.

Hannibal Buress

Stand-up comedy is mine: it's my entity; it's my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

Kevin Hart

I knew an actor's career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can't be your whole identity; otherwise, you're doomed.

Lisa Kudrow

Patriotism is being convinced your country is better because you were born in it.

The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up

Subtle difference between a hero and an opportunist is not where you stand but its timing. Standing up against injustice when it suits is convenience not heroism

Faisal Khosa

I can't stand Anne Tyler books, but I gobble them up. It's like Updike - I can't stand him either, but I read everything he writes.

Caroline Thompson

Shane sat like a statue if a statue wore headphones and radiated angry coiled tension that made hair stand up on a person's arms. She felt like she was sitting next to an unexploded bomb, and given all of the physics she'd had, she understood what th...

Glass Houses

He taught me to fight, to defend myself, to stand up for what I believe in, and protect people I love. I thanked him for that lesson after that weekend in New Orleans when some guy put his hands on Delia, and I had to tear him apart.

My Heart for Yours

If America is the land of opportunity, a country where perseverance and hard work is rewarded by recognition, then an illegal harbors the opposite ambitions. His greatest reward us anonymity, invisibility. Aided and abetted by market forces and the l...

Midnight Cactus

That's what's so touching about weddings: Two people fall in love, and decide to see if their love might stand up over time, if there might be enough grace and forgiveness and memory lapses to help the whole shebang hang together.

Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

It is another unsolved mystery in a world full of unsolved mysteries.Now stand up and walk out the way you came, and the moment that fresh air caresses your face, you will realize that that is what makes the world so beautiful. All those unsolved mys...

The Radleys

If it chance your eye offends you, Pluck it out lad, and be sound: 'Twill hurt, but here are salves to friend you, And many a balsam grows on ground. And if your hand or foot offend you, Cut it off, lad, and be whole; But play the man, stand up and e...

A Shropshire Lad

I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide i...

Imogen Poots

I took an improv class in 2005 in Chicago at ComedySportz, which was short-form, more of a games-based improv. I remember it being real fun and helping with my stand-up. If I did an improv class, and then I did stand-up later, I felt looser on stage ...

Hannibal Buress

If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should face the contradiction. Discuss the conflation. And then do as Warren Buffett and Bill Gat...

David Brin

Has God called you to speak out for peace in a tense situation? Are there lives on the line God is calling you to stand up for, to declare peace to, and to encourage toward a non-violent solution? If so, do it. You never know what might happen. Maybe...

Dillon Burroughs

In case of a thunderstorm, stand in the middle of the fairway and hold up a one iron. Not even God can hit a one iron.

Lee Trevino

I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.

Patton Oswalt

My stand-up is far more rooted in reality than my Twitter.

Rob Delaney

Stand-up is my favorite thing I've ever done. There's so much independence.

Rita Rudner