Down And Quotes
If you want me to come and caddie for you full time, you've got to sit down and do some hard work and do some hard yards because that's what I expect.
One night I looked down and my rosary beads were glowing. And I realized that I did not want to see the blessed Virgin - I was terrified.
I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.
People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets are doing well.
When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.
One of the most important things about social media is knowing when to put the phone down and experience your life.
I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
I'm always amazed by writers who say, "Oh you know I had a half hour so I sat down and wrote a little bit." I just need a real big chunk of time to sit down and focus. That's my process.
I've also got a kind of rule where if I don't write it down and I can still remember it it's worth remembering!
I'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american.
Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard.
Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.
The barrier between TV and movies has come down and film actors are willing to do TV and vice versa, because they just want to follow what's interesting.
When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.
Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.
I'm not even the coolest one of my friends. I'm just the guy who sat down and wrote everything down. Like I know plenty of people who do crazier stuff than I do.
The more information that's out there, the greater the returns to just being willing to sit down and apply yourself. Information isn't what's scarce; it's the willingness to do something with it.
Oh precious heart, you think you're lost, look down look down and find your feet. The next step is the path you're on
I sat down and wrote a short story in two weeks and submitted it to Marion Zimmer Bradley. And Marion bought "Wound On The Moon" .My first sale and my first pro sale rolled into one.
It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
Black coffee is the latest fad I have picked up. Then there are my endless cups of chai! I'm trying to cut down and keep it to no more than three cups a day.
Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
It is time the Arabs and the Jews sat down and settled this dispute in the true Christian spirit.
Climate change is, over the longer term, our greatest national security challenge. We have to do all we can to slow it down and to prepare for and ameliorate its impact.
The construct of William Gibson the Writer is coming down, and become more open. It's more of a Glasnost - Transparency! Transparency is what it is.
Night by night I will lie down and sleep in the thought of God, and in the thought, too, that my waking may be in the bosom of the Father; and some time it will be, so I trust.
We did it with passion; we didn't do it like everyone else. Teams nowadays are still trying to duplicate that, but no one has yet. We shuffled down and we did it. We did it in an unique fashion.
The happiest youth, viewing his progress through, What perils past, what crosses to ensue, Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
The heart of a virtuous person has settled down and he does not rush about at things. A person of little merit is not at peace but walks about making trouble and is in conflict with all.
I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night.
I have a hard time with scheduling, and with hunkering down and planning. That's always been a struggle for me.
I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
Remember that the bad days are not forever, and the trouble which seems so terrible at last.
The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.
Life has pounded me downand thrashed me around, Time and time again, But I always get right back up, Because I still love life -Just as the earth still lovesThe rain.
Some people ate less food less often when they each had a home than they now do as hobos.
And they came up on the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them.-Revelations 20:9
You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you, ' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art supplies strapped to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies.