Down And Quotes

I'm not a journalist. So I didn't down and let Assad charm me. I didn't walk away and say "my god he's got an Apple computer and he really likes Beyonce so he must be a liberal."

There is NOTHING you can do with your running time that is better for you than running. Any other activity only pulls you down and erases passion.

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.

You might be a redneck if somebody hollers ho-down and your girlfriend hits the floor.

I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.

When you are down and out, find something or someone to love.

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead.

It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.

It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

Cancer Is an opportunity to sit down and look into yourself and find the answers. Yes, it's serious, but it's not the end-all.

More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.

Michael (Jackson) was so shy, he'd sit down and sing behind the couch with his back to me while I sat with my hands over my eyes-and the lights off.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

We've got to get rid of the fear of failure in this country. In America, people start things, fail and shake themselves down and start things again. The animal spirit of capitalism is stronger there.

No matter how isolated or lonely or down and out you feel, there is always a way out.

It's pretty much rock-'n'-roll. I sit down and start feeling stuff and writing.

Sometimes, unfortunately, when we make choices there are consequences but, ultimately, the longer we keep things down and hold them secret, the longer the enemy can use them against us.

Render any politician down and there's enough fat to fry an egg.

The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.

I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke down and cried. I never wanted to hurt my mother, so I kept away from drugs.

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

It didn't even really matter how good the band was - if someone could keep a beat, then you were prepared to jump up and down and smash around.

It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're delayed. You're just making a fool of yourself.

My career has been up and down, and I like it much better being up.

The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.

Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

I saw at a young age that one bad break can turn a family's financial life upside down. And it has affected everything in my life since then.

My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life.

The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy.

I don't regret anything that I've turned down, and I don't regret anything that I've done, really.

We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

When I write I get to the point where I slow down and I gotta go back into the world and live nahmean.

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone,” I said diplomatically. Unless that person turns your world upside down and makes you lose all self-control.

During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.

Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I'm lying down and horizontally if I'm running

Think of it like running down a slope. If you attempt to slow down and choose your steps, you’re bound to trip up and stumble.

Prior to [streaming], the idea of sitting down and watching a show every week seemed like a great idea.