Down And Quotes

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.

When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

Everything I did was practical. You have to strip things down and get to the practical stuff.

There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

Whoever had decided that school should start so early in the morning and last all day long needed to be hunted down and forced to watch hours of educational televison without the aid of caffine.

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit down and read a good book than go out and party.

I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A.

The best exercise in the world is to bend down and help someone up.

I have said all along that I would know when it would be time to step down, and now is that time.

Just go outside and look at something and write it down and you'll find it is a very nice piece of writing.

It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.

Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I'm sure we're all facing the same level of extinction.

In New York, the dunk is not the thing. To break somebody down and shoot a J-that's as big as a dunk in New York.

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

Be collaborative. I've had some of my best experiences with directors who were able to sit down and have a conversation and ask me what I thought.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

When you choose a show you really don't know where it's going to go. Sometimes things let you down and sometimes things just surprise you and fulfill you way more than you thought.

I do have a journal, that I write all my thoughts in every day. So that's kind of something. I also have a burn box where I write secrets down and put it in a box.

Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.

I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot.

I remember going to the theatre when I was little and the lights going down and just getting really scared about what was going to happen up there.

Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

John and I would go and have a couple of quiet beers, just to sit down and chew the fat. And he'd talk about Cynthia and how much he missed her

When you sit down and play your music for someone you respect, you get that feeling in your stomach of like: 'Oh my God...' You know if it's not great because you start to feel sick.

While I was the mayor abortions in New York went down and adoptions went way up, because we worked on adoptions as an alternative, so that there'd be a real choice.

Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

I don't just sit down and write all day, or the songs would be weird or stupid. They would be about different stupid thoughts that I go through.

I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.

I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.

I learned from teaching. If you are perceived by the student to be belittling them or purely criticizing them without offering up words of encouragement and support, they shut down and discredit you.

When an angel comes down and takes me away, memories of me and my songs will always stay until the end of time

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.

I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.

I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.

The role of humour is to make people fall down and writhe on the Axminster, and that is the top and bottom of it.

The earth almost looks like it's packed down and dense from so many feet treading over it.

My advice is not to wait to be struck by an idea. If you're a writer, you sit down and damn well decide to have an idea. That's the way to get an idea.

Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.

My first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It's much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it.

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.

The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down.

There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive.

Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.