Up For It Quotes

#1. I love performing in the U.K. Everyone is always up for it and brings all their energy to the dance floor.

Tiesto

#2. Death is my art form--when I fight, I'm a ballerina. Graceful. Chi lacks my grace, but makes up for it in energy and enthusiasm. His fighting style is like breakdancing--strong and frenetic with some really sweet moves. Jo's is . . .the Macarena. Ugly but gets the job done.

Eliza Crewe

#3. When you do voiceover it's such a fun job to be able to do. First of all, you can do it in your pajamas and you don't have to get dressed up for it.

Kelly Hu

#4. Dreamers are to be classified as weapons.
Ronan already knew he was a weapon ; but he was trying to make up for it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. You made one mistake and you shouldn't beat yourself up for it for the rest of your life.

Brenna Aubrey

#6. There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.

Kin Hubbard

#7. It's difficult for me to diet, so I don't. So, I make up for it in exercise. What I am willing to eat, I have to be willing to work off. It's that simple.

John Travolta

#8. There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.

R. Lee Ermey

#9. When people don't like themselves very much, they have to make up for it. The classic bully was actually a victim first.

Tom Hiddleston

#10. The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well.

Frank Lampard

#11. I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

Jack Germond

#12. Thanks for putting me up for it ... trahyner." As V's eyes flared, Butch said, "Yeah, I looked up what the word meant. 'Beloved Friend' fits you perfect as far as I'm concerned."
V Flushed. Cleared his throat. "Good Deal, cop. Good ... deal.

J.R. Ward

#13. I like a naturalism to my dialogue and my comedy. I would rather have a few jokes sail by that might be more subtle than have every single joke hit hard. I would rather the comedy come out of character as opposed to feeling forced. Even if you're giving some laughs up for it.

Jon Favreau

#14. I do think I paid a price as an artist, and I am trying to make up for it now - I work six days a week in the studio, and I've never been happier.

Michael Craig-Martin

#15. She had taken everything else from him, and now she meant to take the one thing that made up for it all.

Edith Wharton

#16. You get yourself prepared for a big game, you get yourself up for it. Then afterwards you don't sleep or eat properly.

Ryan Giggs

#17. I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.

Emil Cioran

#18. Physically I'm not as strong as I was, but I try to make up for it mentally. It's a big challenge, and I relish it, competing with guys half my age.

Karch Kiraly

#19. I'm up for it. Whatever it is. As long as it means I'll always be with you.

Melissa De La Cruz

#20. Care of my heart won't you, Sophie? It's a little odd having it outside my body - but I'm planning to steal yours to make up for it. - Handwritten note from Max to Sophia

Nalini Singh

#21. I was like, oh, I want to sign up for "Catwoman," and then Anne Hathaway had already signed up for it.

Tina Fey

#22. I've been thinking of something your father said - that the true measure of love is what one is willing to give up for it. He was talking about freedom - fighting for liberty. But I believe 'tis the same for love as war.

Laura Frantz

#23. I'm always confident when I sign up for a project that it's going to be good. That's why I sign up for it.

Taraji P. Henson

#24. I'm not exceptionally fast or overly powerful. But I have a good work ethic, and I make up for it by using technique and trying to be smarter.

Dot Richardson

#25. It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

Robert Shea

#26. I just have fun doing what I do. If it looks like a good time, I'm up for it!

Toks Olagundoye

#27. You can make anything into a special occasion and dress up for it

Victoria Beckham

#28. We resumed our steady march through the sleeping street. Boulder City was incredibly quiet. If Vegas was the city that never slept, then Boulder made up for it. It slept like a drunkard on a feather bed. We hadn't even been barked at.

Amy Harmon

#29. Guys who dress up like Santa Claus, see, and give presents away do it because when they was young they must have did something bad and they feel guilty about it. So now they do something they think is good to make up for it, see?

George Seaton

#30. I can promise, however, that the scrying will not hurt you," Nelac continued. "And I will order a special feast afterward, just for you, to make up for it." Hem

Alison Croggon

#31. What took me decades to learn, these kids can get on the Internet ... What I learned by brute force, dealing out hands, they learn on computers. It tends to make for fairly technical players, but they make up for it with aggression, the kind that comes when you learn things fast.

Doyle Brunson

#32. You Illyrian males are insufferable.
Rhys had just said, Good thing we make up for it with impressive wingspans.

Sarah J. Maas

#33. Whatever it is, I'm not up for it." "Oh, Missee Felman, I feel so bad for ju,

Nora Ephron

#34. If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.

Oscar Wilde

#35. What you do in practice is going to determine your level of success. I used to tell my players, 'You have to give 100 percent every day. Whatever you don't give, you can't make up for tomorrow. If you give only 75 percent today, you can't give 125 percent tomorrow to make up for it.'

John Wooden

#36. You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.

Janet Jackson

#37. There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in.

Hugh Hefner

#38. It's a big game tomorrow, obviously, quarter finals. I think that whenever you play the Russians you always get up for it, and tomorrow is going to be even that much bigger, the quarter finals.

Michael Richards

#39. A bitch is a bitch. I think that's inscribed in hieroglyphics on a pyramid somewhere. And hotness does not make up for it.

Brenda Rothert

#40. I reflected that for all the people you lost touch with or couldn't hold on to, life occasionally made up for it by giving you the right person at the right time.

Lisa Kleypas

#41. I like bringing the girls on set, but if I can't do that then the next day I feel I have to be uber-mum to make up for it. Then I'm exhausted and feel like I'm running in fumes.

Marcia Cross

#42. Being on the move all the time is draining, but the rewards make up for it.

David Soul

#43. There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers.

Bertolt Brecht

#44. If it is unappetizing: Do not eat, date, or sign up for it. If the mere thought of it is depressing: Do not major in it, sit through it, or devote your life to it. If it is not important to you: Do not do it only because it is important to someone else. You will thank yourself

Jessica Hagy

#45. The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.

Jack Black

#46. So how, one wonders, does Lean,[i] the hot business methodology of the past two decades, continue to thrive when companies that sign up for it have been dropping out at a rate of more than 90%?

Employee X

#47. Persuade yourselves, that the faith of the gospel is beyond the power of nature; that there is a necessity of a power from on high to bring you to believe. This will raze the old foundation, and cause you to look up for it.

Thomas Boston

#48. Film is drama. You've only two hours, so you lie by exclusion, and try to make up for it by portraying the environment.

Shekhar Kapur

#49. When I first met my agent, I said, If something comes up and it fits my age range and personality, I would like you to send me up for it, even if it specifies blonde or brunette.

Tia Carrere

#50. Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.

Thomas Paine

#51. He's blind, and nearly deaf in the bargain," Mrs. Martello said proudly. "And he's going in surgery just as soon as they get him all fixed up for it. He's got a malignancy.

Eudora Welty

#52. There are certain things I can't do, certain pitches I can't hit. You stay away from them. You try to wait for pitches you can hit. The bat speed isn't what it used to be. You make up for it by using your head, working counts, getting ahead in counts and getting pitches to hit and hitting them hard.

Chili Davis

#53. How ugly most people are! It's a pity they don't try to make up for it by being agreeable.

W. Somerset Maugham

#54. You're gonna be your best salesman. If you don't sell yourself, nobody else is gonna have a better time with it than you. You've gotta get up for it, every day.

T.I.

#55. Many people today have grown up believing that they are entitled to a good time, that that's what life is all about. They put their pleasures ahead of their children, then feel guilty and become placating slaves to the children to make up for it.

Robert Shaw

#56. People need to understand: Businesses are going to make mistakes. They shouldn't be shot and hung every time. We should apologize for it. We should make up for it. My shareholders paid for it. No customer was hurt, which is critical to me. But I hurt my shareholders, and I wish I hadn't.

Jamie Dimon

#57. I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.

Boris Johnson

#58. Many a girl who can't dance well makes up for it during intermission.

Evan Esar

#59. Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.

Annette Funicello

#60. My mind id more problem/solution orientated. Mad at me? Scream at me. Punch me if you're up for it. Please don't smile at me sweetly, act like nothing is wrong and then leave me disillusioned. - Caleb

C.J. Roberts

#61. I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about Broadway. The audiences are smart, they're educated. They go in ready and they're up for it, they're up for the party. It's a whole different atmosphere.

Hugh Jackman

#62. The heart knew that something was missing and it was having to work extra hard to make up for it.

Cecelia Ahern

#63. Why, you're not crippled, you just have a little defect - hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it - develop charm - and vivacity - and - charm!

Tennessee Williams

#64. FINANCIAL TIP
For guys
buying the stupid flowers when you're supposed to will be way cheaper than what you'll have to buy and do to make up for it if you forget.

Jill Conner Browne

#65. Whenever I'm running an hour late for for work, it always makes me feel better when I can leave an hour early at the end of the day to make up for it.

Mark W. Boyer

#66. Take care of my heart won't you, Sophie? It's a little odd having it outside my body-but I'm planning to steal yours to make up for it.

Nalini Singh

#67. Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

C.S. Lewis

#68. Where I fail in accuracy, I hope I make up for it in plausibility.

Elizabeth Wein

#69. Don't be so damn hard on yourself. Yeah, you screwed up. You're not perfect, fine. Learn from it. But don't punish yourself. Be kind to you, even when you screw up. You'll bounce back eventually. You'll make up for it.

Stephanie Klein

#70. Writers just play out their fantasies in their books. They are often very unstable, tricky people, Bertie. Writers are usually very bad at real life and feel that they have to create imaginary lives to make up for it.

Alexander McCall Smith

#71. Most of our teachers, knowing we had an extra day off, usually piled on the homework to make up for it.

V.C. Andrews

#72. We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#73. It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

Archibald Alexander Hodge

#74. If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.

Trick Daddy

#75. I'll tell you what I think of Alaska. It's neither heaven nor hell, but it'll make a man of you. It will test you and try you and tell you what you're made of," he shrugged. "And then when you think it has taken all you have, it will give something back that more than makes up for it.

Jamie Carie

#76. I wonder what they could possible have to say to each other. they're all so boring and they're all trying to make up for it by talking louder.

David Levithan

#77. The Anarchists' [national] anthem is an international anthem that consists of 365 raspberries blown in very quick succession to the tune of Camptown Races. Nobody has to stand up for it, nobody has to listen to it, and, even better, nobody has to play it.

Mike Harding

#78. I'm not nearly as well organized as I would like. I am a creature of to-do lists and calendars - if something doesn't get onto my Google Calendar, I don't show up for it.

Ethan Zuckerman

#79. My mum is in a mental hospital. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. Winston Churchill, Mozart, John Lennon. These people all had a touch of crazy that fuelled their brilliance. They were not locked up for it like my mum. Pft. Then again, Winston Churchill never tried to kill my dad.

Christopher Titus

#80. Don't think that you can make up for it by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren't you doing it now?

John Wooden

#81. We set ourselves up for it with the reality show. You've seen me and Nick go at each other's throats on TV. They've got all these people giving their opinions on our marriage and how we handle it when they are watching an edited TV show.

Jessica Simpson

#82. I try to relax and enjoy it. I don't really get nervous, I get excited! I love training, but my main excitement comes from when I'm racing and the better the standard of people I'm racing, the more excited I get and the more 'up for it' I get.

Liam Tancock

#83. I hate fame. There's this assumption that everyone wants it - that by being a musician, I've signed up for it at some point. But personally, what I signed up for is sharing my music. I've always said I'd rather have four No. 10 songs than one No. 1 hit.

Chet Faker

#84. Alex's experience of real family - of blood relations - was more like having a lot of people who had all wound up on the same mailing list without knowing quite why they signed up for it.

James S.A. Corey

#85. I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it.

C. G. Jung

#86. A pity it was so early in the day and I couldn't treat myself to the roller coaster. we'll have to come back, you and I, and make up for it."
"Sure, when I've lost my mind and want to rush screaming through the air in a little car.

J.D. Robb

#87. I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push myself into doing it. I know that when I am up for it I will, and when I'm not in the mood to, I don't make myself feel badly over it.

Samaire Armstrong

#88. I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.

Jim Capaldi

#89. And I've been trying everything I can think of since to make up for it - short of tattooing her name on my ass and streaking across Yankee Stadium.
I was saving that for next week.

Emma Chase

#90. Prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.

Simone Weil

#91. At some point each day (well, most days) I unroll my mat and practice for an hour. I sit in meditation for a while. This can be five minutes or twenty minutes, but the daily practice - simply showing up for it - is centering.

Dani Shapiro

#92. I've never taken drugs. My drug, I suppose, is drink. I never drink before I sing, but I do make up for it when I come off!

Bonnie Tyler

#93. We are a motley bunch. But we more than make up for it with tenacity." ~ Ralston to Simon

Sarah MacLean

#94. In hip hop no one cares. No one stands up for it and it's a mess. We need order so we can all follow the tradition of where we came from. We need to keep referring to the pioneers.

Nas

#95. I'm not a fighter by nature, but, if I believe in something, I stand up for it

Justin Bieber

#96. What you lack in one department, you make up for it in another

Liam Williams

#97. You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

Ben Folds

#98. That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal sufferring, "No future bliss can make up for it" not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.

C.S. Lewis

#99. Whatever my limited knowledge, I tried to make up for it with energy.

Eric Greitens

#100. No man is the boss of his own house, but he can make up for it, he thinks, by making a dog play dead.

W.C. Fields