You Build Me Up Quotes

#1. You build me up and turn me inside out. I've never felt so defenseless and yet ... so daring at the same time.

Pam Godwin

#2. I can fake a smile. I can force a laugh. I can dance and play the part of that's what you ask. Give you all I am. But I am only human. I bleed when I fall down. I'm only human I crash and I break down. Your words in my head. Knives in my heart. You build me up and then I fall apart.

Christina Perri

#3. I kept being told, 'If you really want to build a start up, you have to be in San Francisco,' so I ended up taking out a suitcase. It did occur to me to do it in London but it's very, very difficult to build a start up in London - so I guess I was being lazy.

Ruzwana Bashir

#4. I build my life so that I don't wake up for anything. Ever. If you make me get up early to do something with you, I will hate you and resent you and figure out a way of never having to work with you ever again.

Douglas Coupland

#5. You can take my factories, burn up my buildings, but give me my people and I'll build the business right back again.

Henry Ford

#6. There are a lot of decisions we pass up on because we think, "You know what? That's just going to build - you know, maybe that's going to build me and not build the ministry and what I'm trying to do." So we pass up on a lot of opportunities.

Joel Osteen

#7. I tried to build an igloo out of orange peel but it kept falling down and even when it stood up I didn't have an eskimo to put in it, so I had to invent a story about 'How Eskimo Got Eaten', which made me even more miserable. It's always the same with diversions; you get involved

Jeanette Winterson

#8. Somehow the image begins to have a sort of memory in it, even if you can't see it. It can build up a dense feeling toward the end, and then it makes me happier.

Vija Celmins

#9. I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.

Taylor Swift

#10. You don't know the effect your words have on me, Lady Firebrand. It took years to build up this ice. You will melt it and then I will be broken.

Elly Blake

#11. You go through those awkward, dorky, geeky stages, and growing up in the industry amplifies all that. Fortunately, I have a mother who encouraged me to build my confidence from within and embrace my imperfections.

Jurnee Smollett

#12. I have been asked sometimes what led me to the Persian Gulf, what instinct told me that I could build up a business there. It's really perfectly simple. If you go to the hottest and most uncomfortable place on the map you'll find there's not a lot of competition;

Nevil Shute

#13. Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.

Deborah Day

#14. You tear me down just to build me up again. All I can think is: you are a psycho-clown.

Coco J. Ginger

#15. If you're beautiful you don't need clothes. If you're ugly like me, you're like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up,

Isabella Blow

#16. As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me.

Richard Branson

#17. I like this dirty Chase, this crude and irreverent man. I want to go where he's taking me. I need to be dragged down to where he is so we can build ourselves back up, together, stronger.

S.R. Grey

#18. My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.

Ajahn Brahm

#19. Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state

Robert E.Lee

#20. Whereas, if you have a longer scene, then you have momentum to build it up. I thought I sucked, but Chris Weitz is an actor, so he understands that process and that you can get nervous in it, and he can look beyond that. Or, it was just me and I was over-thinking the entire thing.

Tinsel Korey

#21. I never build myself us. I let the people do that. I'm the most laid-back person, and I let them build me up. If you ask me, I say, 'I'm just a guy playin' some blues.

John Lee Hooker

#22. Hovering over me was the Chihuly chandelier. Chihulys are the pigeons of Seattle. They're everywhere and even if they don't get in your way, you can't help but build up a kind of antipathy toward them.

Maria Semple

#23. We'll build a democracy here, even if it's with Nazi bricks.

Samuel Fuller

#24. Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. Resolve to learn something new every day. Because every 24 hours, you have the opportunity to have the best day of your company's life.

Harvey MacKay

#25. Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.

Criss Angel

#26. Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you.

Taylor Swift

#27. We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

Bill Bryson