Quotes About Upstart

#1. If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

Brian Eno

#2. From nobody to upstart. From upstart to contender. From contender to winner. From winner to champion. From champion to Dynasty.

Pat Riley

#3. Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.

Noam Chomsky

#4. When I came into the mobile phone business, I was really the upstart who pretty much took the business, not quite by storm, but really made an impact on it quite early on. But it was from a position, really, of feeling that I was a last mover.

John Caudwell

#5. When an upstart dictator in the United States succeeds in making this a one-party form of government, I shall have the courage to stand up and advocate the use of bullets.

Charles Coughlin

#6. As the clutter of outrageous, fantastical photographs that today occupy Sandy Island's place on Google Earth suggests, Sandy Island's disappearance established it as a rebel base for the imagination, an innocent and an upstart that managed to escape the vast technologies of omni-knowledge.

Anonymous

#7. An unedified palate is the irrepressible cloven foot of the upstart. The

Thomas Hardy

#8. Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

Adam Smith

#9. In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone.

Murasaki Shikibu

#10. Why won't you drown?" he wailed, pummeling me with his fists.
"I'm Poseidon's son," I said.
"Curse that upstart! I was here first!

Rick Riordan

#11. If I had my way, all actors over 55 would be issued a 3-lb. wet salmon with which to slap the face of every young, beautiful, successful upstart.

Richard Griffiths

#12. English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.

Zadie Smith

#13. In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior.

James Wolcott

#14. It is a note
Of upstart greatness to observe and watch
For these poor trifles, which the noble mind
Neglects and scorns.

Ben Jonson

#15. Then, abrupt and decisive, the Emerald City rose before them. A city of insistence, of blanket declaration. It made no sense, clotting up the horizon, sprouting like a mirage on the characterless plains of central Oz. Glinda hated it from the moment she saw it. Brash upstart of a city.

Gregory Maguire

#16. He rooted for the Mets, he wore Foot of the Loom underwear, and he drove a Buick. His loyalties were carved in stone and he wasn't about to be impressed with some upstart of a toaster salesman who drove a Bonneville.

Janet Evanovich

#17. Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.

Phyllis McGinley

#18. The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.

Martin Filler

#19. His warrior's eyes met hers. "You're the reason. My compass home points toward you.

Natasza Waters

#20. Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

Charles Dickens

#21. Shortage of time is not your problem. Shortage of money is not your problem. Shortage of Connection to the Energy that creates worlds is at the heart of all sensations of shortage that you are experiencing.

Esther Hicks

#22. Let equal fire our souls inflame,
And equal zeal employ,
That we the glorious spring may know,
Whose streams appear'd so bright below.

Georg Friedrich Handel

#23. I'm really into mainstream rap and R&B, but I never saw myself as intertwined in that world.

Hudson Mohawke

#24. I only started getting into furs when the designers I liked started making them.

Grace Jones

#25. I'm a character actress. It doesn't mean I can't do leading roles; I don't think of myself as a leading lady.

Rena Sofer

#26. For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a regulatory process so slanted in favor of Big Oil that often permit reviews are simply waived.

Chellie Pingree

#27. I can't claim that I came out of it the winner. But I felt a lot like a kid who has finally found the guts to stand up to the schoolyard bully and tell him to take his best shot: bruised and bloody and thinking maybe that it hadn't been such a hot idea, but - what do you know? - still standing.

Aaron Elkins

#28. Keep your character several steps ahead of your talent

Jeff Henderson