Palms are like cockroaches. They were here long before us, and they’ll be here long after us. They’re the only things standing after a hurricane.
I was genuinely frightened when I saw the Daleks. These ridiculous-looking things absolutely get to the core of you when you’re standing in front of one.
My laptop seems to know where I am, even if I don’t. My cellphone asks me if I want directions to anywhere from the spot I am standing in. I buy a record online and Amazon.com sends me letters, telling me that people who bought what I bought also bought these other records.
A lot of people don’t like to eat on camera, but I eat on camera all the time. I’m standing in for the viewer.
When someone is looking at me, I feel they are looking at someone standing behind me, not at me.
The standing ovation threw me… to be held in such regard in a town so full of talent is quite something.
I’m never standing still and that makes my life pretty exciting.
The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person’s standing in the political community.
And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing.
There were times when I was working three jobs at one time, and I was still auditioning just to make ends meet, and I was hoping that something was going to come through. Especially after you have two degrees, standing solid through the process is sometimes the hardest part because there is no guarantee.
P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn’t be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.
Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.
If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she’d still be standing.
TLC always looked up to male bands. We saw guy groups could just go out and get the fans screaming by just standing there – fully clothed and with nothing but their music… We saw them as the competition more than the girl groups, with whom we wanted to stay unified.
I don’t like doing stand-up, because I don’t like standing up.
I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.
Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.
On February 7, 2.2 million Haitians went to the polls and exercised their constitutional right to select a leader. They went by foot, by tap tap and other forms of transportation, traveling hours and standing in line for almost a day to get to their polling places.
Perhaps the two greatest moments of my life were standing on the moon and being outside of the room when my granddaughter was born! We tend not to remember the worst.
For the longest, I was slightly naive when it came to the real world. There were a lot of fears I was afraid to conquer that were just holding me back from standing up for myself or taking chances.
I was standing right behind Marilyn, completely invisible, when she sang ‘Happy birthday, Mr. President.’ And indeed, the corny thing happened: Her dress split for my benefit, and there was Marilyn, and yes, indeed, she didn’t wear any underwear.
I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.
Frankly, if ‘American Idol’ was the way I’d have to audition as a singer, I’d be standing behind the counter in a 5&10 right now. I couldn’t have done it that way.
In my case, vertical food was less about standing things up than layering things: more an attempt to gain texture by weaving things together.
About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped – and finding that you don’t have the ball in them – is a great little old leveler.
Let me tell you – when I was standing there on top of the world, you become so humble. You don’t think about breaking records anymore, you don’t think about gaining scientific data – the only thing that you want is to come back alive.
You may confuse a lot of people when going against the grain of conventional thinking, and that’s perfectly okay. As an entrepreneur, standing up for your vision to your family and friends might possibly be the best practice you will get for the life that awaits you.
Conservative Justices have a history of not standing by their professed commitment to judicial restraint.
Standing up for national anthem doesn’t make you an Indian. Posting flags on social networks doesn’t make you an Indian.
To have a Japanese wrestler standing as the face of professional wrestling, there’s only one person for that spot, and it’s me.
The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.
If you think back to the fight over drones, when I was proud to be standing shoulder to shoulder with Rand Paul filibustering for 13 hours, that was viewed as a fringe issue, as a quixotic issue, and yet millions of Americans engaged, spoke up, got online.
I’m good everywhere. I can defend the takedowns. I can get a guy down if I want them. I can keep it standing and strike. I can do it all.
I am very practical. It’s not like I will fall in love with someone standing far away.
Once when I was standing at the base, they started rotating the set and a big, heavy wrench fell down from the 12 o’clock position of the set, and got buried in the ground a few feet from me. I could have been killed!
I like finding stuff that I suck at and trying to get better. So I’m taking classes, getting myself comfortable in an acting scene. You’ve got to work out those ticks. For instance, standing up used to be really hard for me. I act much better if I’m sitting down.
Joe Dugan, who was my roommate on the Yankees, was an honorary pallbearer, too. He was standing next to me as they were carrying the Babe down the steps of St. Pat’s Cathedral here in New York. There must have been 5,000 people standing around on the sides of the street, and it was tremendous.
The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.
I support legal immigration. I don’t support amnesty because it is not fair to people standing in line at consulates around the world.
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.
My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn’t make at my family reunion.
I can be standing in Barneys with my coat and purse and my selections, and some white woman will say, ‘Can you get this in my size?’ What she sees is a black woman, and her service button goes off.
When you’re standing in line at the airport, and your shoes are off, your belt is off, and your personal belongings are being closely scrutinized, and you’re standing with your hands in the air, waiting to be patted down, do you feel protected? I don’t. I feel like I’m the enemy.
While loyalists and defectors overall said John Smith did a better job of standing up for Labour’s values, they put Blair ahead on representing the whole country, appealing beyond traditional Labour voters and offering strong, competent leadership; switchers to the Tories gave him a clear lead in all categories.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
In some ways any film that you do has an artificiality about it. Even when you’re doing the most kitchen-sinky, gritty, realistic scene you’ve still got 50 people standing around watching you with cameras and lights and things.
We will strengthen our security by building missile defense, restoring our military might, and standing by and strengthening our intelligence officers.
Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, ‘We want our country back!’ Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.
When you have an audience standing and screaming the entire way through the short program and cheering every element you do, whether it’s footwork, or spin, or a jump, to have that kind of emotion coming at you from every direction in the building, it’s the most amazing sensation you can get as a sportsman.
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Granted, it’s not easy to be a super-tall woman in Hollywood. But there are times when it works in my favour. In ‘The Night Manager,’ for example, both of my co-stars, Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston, are also well over 6 ft. and it was lovely to look a co-star in the eye and not have them standing on an apple box!
