Quotes About Upped

#1. I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.

Pat Paulsen

#2. Goody. That must be why they were looking for a 22-caliber anything when they came by with their search warrant this morning.'

'They didn't!'

'They did.'

'When?'

'Oddly enough, right before I upped my meds.

Sandra Balzo

#3. A carefully preserved English accent also upped the fear factor.

Zadie Smith

#4. Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.

James McBride

#5. That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.

Patricia Highsmith

#6. Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#7. You upped the ante with the wrong vampire, Caitlin.

Lindsay J. Pryor

#8. I like the work. If I upped the price, I wouldn't get the work.

John Raitt

#9. So the little bastard thinks he one-upped me with his little erotic-nympho shower performance. I'll show him, and soon.

A.E. Via

#10. 'Boardwalk' has kind of exposed me to a different demographic. And it upped my skills in terms of the speed with which I can prep a scene, and I'm excited to apply that.

Michael Pitt

#11. WE ALL KNEW LIL PAT was a junky. His girlfriend, Angie, one-upped him by being a junky and a whore.

Bill Hillmann

#12. Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He's upped daddy's paycheck by 15 to 40 percent!

Waite Hoyt

#13. Him about money. He suggested a weekly wage, I agreed, and once a year he told me he'd upped it a bit, usually by a little more than I would have asked for. What did people ask in interviews anyway? And what if they asked me to do something practical with this old man, to feed him or bath

Jojo Moyes

#14. Upped but mentally disjointed.

Beatrice Sparks

#15. Without arts programmes there's only reality TV, and reality TV needs the arts to show it what reality is.

Billy Connolly

#16. It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

Herodotus

#17. I am liking him enough to know that a different time and a different place might have led to a different outcome. But since I'm not planning on leaving this time or place anytime soon, it's not a point worth making.

David Levithan

#18. Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Walter Gropius

#19. What? Just because I can't have you right now, doesn't mean I'm okay with him having you.

Cora Carmack

#20. Posterity
you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

John Quincy Adams