Down And Quotes

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.

And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

I wouldn't say I was grumpy. It's more pathological - I have seismic tantrums. I get red in the face and cry at least three times a week, and I have to lie down and have a nap afterwards.

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

That pitch wasn't down and in, that pitch was down and up.

You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

You can't get down and think things won't get better or they definitely won't.

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!

If someone says, hey, you know, this long weekend, let's go skydiving - I would say, no, are you nuts? I'd just as soon sit down and have a cup of tea.

Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin' against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..

I’m quite hyper, and my wife would prefer it if I sat down and read a book.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

So live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you.

As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go down and take a stance, then there will be hope.

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.

I work hard at it [delivery of lyrics], just like I worked hard at getting my masters degree. It's not just something I sit down and do. You have to learn and keep learning.

Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby.

I don't intend to kind of like wind down and get decrepit. I have a challenge to keep myself going. To eat right. To exercise.

Personally, in real life, Im a little more down-and-dirty than I am glamorous.

I'm just gonna do my own kinda swag of kinda dumbing something down and speaking some knowledge.

You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself.

I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions.

I never hesitate to tell a man that I am bullish or bearish. But I do not tell people to buy or sell any particular stock. In a bear market all stocks go down and in a bull market they go up.

I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?

Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.

We have this day to be alive. We better lay down and give up, or stand up and really make some worthwhile memories for ourselves. 'Cause we're not going to be alive forever

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, have you grown old.

Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?

Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.

I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff" pg. 4

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.