Perk Me Up Quotes

#1. I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.

Barbara Lynn

#2. Your heart - as you call it - and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as those meters you will find on gas-pipes: they only perk up and start pumping when you drop coins in.

Sarah Waters

#3. I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.

James Woods

#4. Wearing shorts is a huge perk. I think it's probably one of the reasons people become mailmen. You also get to drive in that vehicle that should be illegal in the United States, where the steering wheel is on the other side. They have no rules! They are the punk rock of government jobs.

Jimmy Fallon

#5. It happens very rarely that your ears perk up about a certain project.

Dominic Cooper

#6. What did one saggy boob say to the other? We better perk up or somebody is going to think we're nuts.

Kyung-Sook Shin

#7. And don't trouble yourself too much if you don't laugh at what you are about to read, for if you perk up your pink little ear, you may hear the silvery tinkling of merriment in the air, far, far away ... It's us, buster. Ching!

The Harvard Lampoon

#8. Broken people find beauty in chaos. It's a perk, and it's landed you me so be grateful of all my brokenness.

R.J. Lewis

#9. Yes!" I perk up. "Actually, I was wondering, do the mothers have lots of coffee mornings, parties, that kind of thing?" Erica shoots me an odd look. "I meant socialization of the children." "Right." I clear my throat. "The children. Of course.

Sophie Kinsella

#10. It occurred to Michael that this was the great perk of being loved: someone to wait for you, someone to tell you that it will get easier up ahead. Even when it might not be true.

Armistead Maupin

#11. I don't care about money or fame or anything like that, but it would be a perk.

Lucas Grabeel

#12. Amazing how spending some money, especially when you haven't got it, can perk you up.

Jane Green

#13. I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.

Earl Scruggs

#14. I looked around. As flock leader, everyone was expecting me to make a decision. Jeb's presence here would bring uncertainty, chaos, probably danger.
It would perk up my day.

James Patterson

#15. The first perk of theatre is the girls.

James Spader

#16. The sound of a cell phone chiming at her desk seems to make her ears perk, and her eyes graze past my shoulders. She's like a dog that's been classically conditioned to react at the sound of a text message notification.

Winter Renshaw

#17. I want to go to Harry Potter Land! I actually should text Emma Watson to see if she can hook us up with a backstage pass or something. That's the perk of doing a movie with Emma called 'The Perks Of Being A Wallflower.'

Nina Dobrev

#18. When you tell people you're a playwright, their eyes sort of glaze over. But when you say you write the 'Fantastic Four' or 'Spider-Man,' they perk up. It's a touchstone that has gained more credibility as artistic expression.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

#19. Verily, I swear, 'tis better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow.

William Shakespeare

#20. I was a big, big fan of Jimmy Burton. Anything with him on, I used to perk up and listen to it over and over and over again.

Dave Davies

#21. I have studied your lips
every line, dip and bend
and
have come to realize
one truth:
the way you move
is in perfect
unison with
the perk
and pout
of your mouth
orating coded syllables
only I can make out.

Adrian Michael

#22. I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I thought flight might perk up a marriage here or there.

Steven Amsterdam

#23. I'm a nosy old woman, it's a perk of getting old. You can be annoying and people just call you eccentric.

Lauren Dane

#24. The first perk of theater is the girls.

James Spader

#25. If there's a perk to having such a fucked up father, it's that he's in no position to judge.

Jonathan Tropper

#26. When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#27. There's no perk in being closed-minded as a minority. It's never, ever, ever going to help you, ever.

Baratunde R. Thurston

#28. I love the idea of sharing some of what we find in the research phase with a select community of people early on as a perk for their donating, and then gauging their feedback.

Steve James

#29. I'd fake the part for a second to infiltrate, gather intelligence, and then ditch it, laughing on my way back to the outside. That's the perk of being Chinese, you can walk through walls and no one really notices. (155)

Eddie Huang

#30. As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.

Paige Craig

#31. Free haircuts are definitely a nice perk.

C. J. Wilson

#32. Horseradish is one of those perk-me-ups. You can use it in a cocktail sauce, you can bread fish with it - it loses its punch when cooked. It's a 'What is that?' flavor. It adds depth of flavor to things.

Tom Douglas

#33. I hope we have not sunk so low in American society that plain, simple, justice according to the Constitution must be regarded as a perk. Police

Naomi Zack

#34. Delta Airlines recently proposed giving frequent flyers a controversial perk: the option of paying $5 extra to speak to a customer service agent in the United States, rather than be routed to a call center in India. Public disapproval led Delta to abandon the idea.

Michael J. Sandel

#35. One key symptom of alcoholism is that the individual comes to need a drink for every mood-one to calm down, one to perk up, one to celebrate, one to deal with disappointment, and so on.

Phyllis A. Balch

#36. I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

Emma Thompson

#37. Being able to go on location and see the world was the greatest perk of all.

Elizabeth Taylor

#38. The alarm rings 4:45, again at 5, but I wake up 4:30 naturally. Shower, shave, orange juice, perk my own coffee, hear the news, and the CBS car arrives 5:30.

Charlie Rose

#39. Sure I've got an awesome overdraft but as a perk I've got someone personally assigned to look after me. When you spend £45,000 on doing up your house you don't have to speak to someone in a call centre.

Brian Robertson