My Backup Quotes

#1. Waiting for him I check behind me, to be sure I haven't accidentally activated my backup tank of oxygen, and that's when I notice the universe. The scale is graphically shocking. The colors, too. The incongruity is stupefying: there I was, inside a small box, but now - how is this possible?

Chris Hadfield

#2. That's tough. Anything I can do?"
"Just stay in play as my backup."
I nearly swerved the car off the road. "I'm sorry - your backup?"
"You know, in case it doesn't work out with Fallon."
"And what about Ethan?"
Jeff chuckled. "I just figured he was your backup for me.

Chloe Neill

#3. My backup plan is to challenge Bearbreaker to single combat, defeat him, become Queen of the Zerkers and spend the rest of my life riding a giant motorcycle over frozen tundra.

D.D. Barant

#4. I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.

Patti Davis

#5. I hesitated on getting my backup gun and putting it in my purse, but didn't. My purse, like all purses, seems to have a travelling black hole in it. I'd never get the gun out in time if I really needed it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#6. I didn't want to admit my backup plan consisted of hoping we didn't need one. When

Bryan Fields

#7. Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.

M. Stanton Evans

#8. Parish, get back into position!' Max warned. 'Do not go in there. I repeat, do not go in there.' 'We lose him now, we lose him for good,' Caitlin declared. 'And I am not going to let that happen.' 'You have insufficient backup. I repeat: insufficient backup.

Lindsay J. Pryor

#9. There will be plenty of backup and support, but she's still going to have to do heartbreaking things to people who probably don't understand why the pale woman with the bone-white violin and blood dripping from her fingertips is coming for them.

Charles Stross

#10. You can never have too much backup.

Terry Pratchett

#11. What happened to you?" Seth was out of his chair and circling her. "You look like Britney Spears, back when she was dating backup dancers and walking around gas stations barefoot.

Rainbow Rowell

#12. You are my brother as surely as if we shared the same blood, and I will help you beat this thing however I can. However long it takes. Whatever backup you need. I am here.

Laura Kaye

#13. Shapeshifter parenting motto - if your kid slits somebody's throat, always have a backup plan to make the body disappear.

Ilona Andrews

#14. And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

Umberto Guidoni

#15. It can't hurt to have a backup.

Mallory Ortberg

#16. When you're a single parent, you're often lonely, yet seldom alone. There is no backup ... It is mothering without a net.

Amy Dickinson

#17. I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer was making me selfish - I was a mother with two children, and I needed a backup plan.

Rebecca Ferguson

#18. Me as a backup center? Hell no.

Dikembe Mutombo

#19. I'd really like having a couple days of being a rock star, although I'd rather be a backup - like maybe the drummer for Muse ... It would also be fun to be gorgeous, like be Charlize Theron, just for a couple of days.

Stephenie Meyer

#20. I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

Julianna Margulies

#21. When was the last time she had trusted God, really rusted Him, without reservations, without a backup plan or a safety net?

Kara Isaac

#22. Everyone I know who put any energy into a backup plan is now living that backup plan instead of their dream. Put all your energy into your dream. That's the only way it will ever become real.

Laini Taylor

#23. You can't always be 100-percent positive that a joke will work, so you've just got to try it. Fortunately, if one new joke doesn't work, I've got lots of old ones that do. Just like cops, it's important to have backup.

Doug Benson

#24. Four shapeshifters are missing, the office smells like blood, you see some weird woman in a transparent gown who clearly shouldn't be in the building, and you run after her?"
"It's my job to run after her."
"Without backup?"
"I am the backup.

Ilona Andrews

#25. The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.

Ralph Nader

#26. In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.

Dennis Quaid

#27. Even when I'm touring, I feel like a sideman ... everybody's working together. We get to play longer solos; it's not just "Here's the record! Thank you for coming Goodnight" ... it has always had a "band" feel instead of being a singer and his backup band ...

Vince Gill

#28. I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale.

Kurt Busiek

#29. I had never dreamed about the NBA like some guys did. I was a non-scholarship player at an NAIA college. I played on the Boys and Girls Club team in my freshman and sophomore years of high school before I made the high school team. I was our backup center in college.

Terry Porter

#30. If I wasn't doing candy, I'd want to create the best rescue animal-shelter organization. Otherwise, the Jackson 5 and Michael Jackson were so much a part of my childhood, and Janet and I have become friends. So my second dream job would be backup singer for Janet Jackson!

Dylan Lauren

#31. For me, a dancer is part of an artist's entertainment - 'backup dancer' isn't even in my vocabulary.

Laurieann Gibson

#32. As a kid, Terry Bradshaw didn't amaze me. My hero was Steelers backup Terry Hanratty, who nabbed two Super Bowl rings while completing three passes.

Stephen Rodrick

#33. The woman I wanted to spend my life with was gone. I wasn't in the mood to find a backup.

Nicole Williams

#34. On having a backup plan: Always a good plan anytime you want to follow your dream - I love writing, acting, and psychiatry - there are crazy people everywhere which means I can take my career anywhere my dream needs to go.

Samantha Steele

#35. I didn't have enough other people in my life to cover the loss of this many people at once. I didn't have spare aunties or cousins or grandparents. I didn't have backup. I didn't have insurance to cover a loss like this.

Liane Moriarty

#36. A backup plan means somewhere in my head, I think I might fail and that word is not in my vocabulary. Plus I'm too talented to fail.

Malorie Blackman

#37. There is no one quite as popular in any form of football as the backup QB.

Verne Lundquist

#38. When the person you hit doesn't have the grace to fall over, it's generally best to have a backup plan.

Mark Lawrence

#39. Most computers today have built in backup software.

Barton Gellman

#40. I noticed the dudes in the ambulance were staying put; I hoped they were calling for backup, or maybe somebody who could do an exorcism, or maybe my pal Stephen King, because if anybody on earth could figure a way out of this mess, it'd be Uncle Stevie.

Tobe Hooper

#41. I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish
cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

Haruki Murakami

#42. Occasionally, a young catcher is born with a backup's soul. Bob Montgomery was on the Red Sox opening day roster for the entire 1970s, yet he never had more than 254 at-bats in a season.

Stephen Rodrick

#43. How could I ask for a better friend? Someone who gives me a backup plan. Instead of someone who makes me the backup plan.

Sarah Mylnowski

#44. If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is hopeless. We have no backup plan. We have nothing but Him.

Heidi Baker

#45. I had to be the worst backup plan in the history of the universe, but here I was anyway.

Lisa Henry

#46. As a backup, I intended to get a quart of defense spray. I wasn't much good with a gun, but I was bitchin' with an aerosol can.

Janet Evanovich

#47. My whole thing is I want to have a backup plan because maybe I won't get another acting job after 'Fame', maybe I'll want to give up on acting in five years or whatever and I want to have something else that I enjoy just as much as I enjoy acting.

Kay Panabaker

#48. Always have a backup plan to the backup plan.

Gillian Flynn

#49. Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

Mike Birbiglia

#50. If you buy a DVD you have a copy. If you want a backup copy you buy another one.

Jack Valenti

#51. The second bathroom's downstairs - that's kind of the emergency backup bathroom when Shane's in there moussing his hair for like an hour or something ... "
"Bite me!" Shane yelled from behind the closed door.

Rachel Caine

#52. Always have a backup plan in case you fail. Prepare for another business.

Ehab Atalla

#53. Everything good in there, T? Niko quipped. You need backup or anything? Bag of marshmallows to roast over that little campfire you just started?

Lara Adrian

#54. As journalism dies, I kind of feel like I want some skills besides writing. I'd like to be able to write movies or host TV shows or whatever. Things that I might actually not inherently like quite as much, but are interesting and fun things to do. A good backup plan.

Joel Stein

#55. I like the backup plan better," Amos said. "Backup plan?" Prax asked. "The backup plan is I grab the first guy we see, and beat him until he tells us where the kids are." Prax

James S.A. Corey

#56. On the one blind date I went on, I had a backup. If I texted you the code word, you call and say my dogs are sick.

Britt Robertson

#57. It's definitely hard when you're putting in the work and the guy who's starting isn't, especially if he's overhyped or you're not winning. I can't imagine how hard it would be to be that guy's backup.

Matt Hasselbeck

#58. If the disk crashes - taking all of your source code with it - and you don't have a backup, it's your fault. Telling your boss "the cat ate my source code" just won't cut it.

Anonymous

#59. I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

Gwen Stefani

#60. I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.

Henry Cavill

#61. It's a very easy thing to say, 'Go get a backup quarterback.' Now tell me where to get them. You just can't dial them up.

Bill Parcells

#62. Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

Linus Torvalds

#63. Knocking me down is easy. To keep me down you'll need backup!

Judi Young

#64. It will be all right, Kirito. I will always be watching your back. We're the greatest forward and backup in the world.

Reki Kawahara

#65. Tagged by a whiny little vamp. Rache, take this sword and stick it in me. Just go and stick it in me. I'm a back-drafted, crumpled-winged, dust-caked, dew-assed excuse of a backup. Worthless as a pixy condom. Taken down by my own partner. Just tape my ass shut and let me fart out my mouth.

Kim Harrison

#66. It's the most natural progression for me to becoming a singing sensation next. And so many people have offered to be on it. Eddie Van Halen ... and Prince, Madonna and Cyndi Lauper will probably be a backup trio.

Paul Reubens

#67. Plank to base. I require urgent backup. Repeat. Urgent backup. Am knackered. Repeat. Knackered. And can you pick me up a bag of ready salted crisps on the way? Repeat. Ready salted crisps. Urgent. Over.

David Walliams

#68. Hey Boo, I'm in this now, too, & I got a lot of experience playing assholes like they're fucking harps. You need backup, I got you. Stop trying to convince yourself that you're in this alone.

Alexandra Bracken

#69. But she wasn't around, and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone.

Mitch Albom

#70. Switchblade," I said. "Nice. I could use one of those."
"That's not enough?" He whispered, pointing at my gun.
"It does the job, if the job us to kill. I need a backup that's not always so lethal."
"You could try getting yourself into fewer situations where you need a weapon.

Kelley Armstrong

#71. It's so logical and so simple. Fat is the backup fuel system. The role it plays in the body is that when there's no carbohydrate around, fat will become the primary energy fuel. That's pretty well known.

Robert Atkins

#72. What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked.
Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us."
"Sure," said Magnus. "And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour.

Cassandra Clare

#73. Steve, it's OK. I know Angle is a dork, but he's a dangerous dork, our dork and your backup dork!

Vince McMahon

#74. Unlike in Europe, where serving is often a career rather than a backup plan, American table-waiting remains a bootstrap business, and some of the biggest skeptics of waiter training courses and schools are seasoned servers themselves.

David Sax

#75. I will never give up my dream of being a prima ballerina and backup dancer for Justin Timberlake!

Haley Webb

#76. Tomorrow is not another day; tomorrow is today's backup plan.

Ian Coburn

#77. It's great, because we've had some really great people playing with us who really have studied the record and been able to recreate a lot of what was done. But I would need a choir of eight, probably, to do all of the backup vocals.

Zooey Deschanel

#78. The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses.

Katie McGrath

#79. I like to think I have a good few years left of my career yet, as long as I stay fit and healthy. However, it's always good to have a backup plan, which is why I have been working hard to build my business portfolio outside tennis.

Andy Murray

#80. I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.

Rachel Platten

#81. He wouldn't just be facing her, he thought with genuine, back-sweating fear, but all of them. The four of them, with Mrs. Grady for backup.
They'd roast his balls.

Nora Roberts

#82. Having Plan B is good. But if your obsessed with Plan A, u'll never need backup. Become Obsessed with ur goals, ur focus will bring results.

Keshia Chante

#83. So why didn't he vanish?" Charlayne nods toward Kiernan. "After Max took his key, he should have disappeared, right?"
"I would have," Kiernan says, "except someone was wise enough to give me a backup when I was eight. This isn't the first time it's saved me.

Rysa Walker

#84. Doing a good impression of a backup goalie the last few weeks.

Roberto Luongo