Down And Quotes

Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

Being a mother has absolutely forced me. You have to write things down and have systems for all of it. And then you set up systems and you realize they don't work.

I find if I just sit down and think, a solution presents itself.

It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.

Take some time to sit down and figure out how your big rival is promoting their brand and plan something smarter and more creative for yours!

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.

With the horse I always consider that if I do too much in too little time and I'm not patient, he's gonna shut down and I won't get anything done.

The sun exactly at noon is exactly [beginning to] go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly [beginning to] die.

How do you get rid of hiccups? Drink water upside-down and put a pencil in your mouth. Is that possible?

Fighting's given me confidence but it's also broken me down and kept me humble.

Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table

The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.

In a bird's eye view you tend to survey everything and decide on a particular point, then you swoop down and pick it up. In a worms eye view you don't have that advantage of looking at everything.

It's just all about opportunities, knocking doors down and see who answers.

I personally feel the need to experience life and new music and ideas before I can sit down and start writing music again.

Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.

If you sit down and talk to a person, it's easy to convince him that apartheid can never save a country and will lead to the slaughtering of innocent people - including his own people.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.

Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

My hat was pulled down and this girl said 'Are you really him?' I whispered 'Yeah, I'm really him.' She screamed, 'Mom! Dad! It's Heath Ledger!

I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face.

The time has come for someone to put his foot down, and that foot is me.

I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

Slowing it all down and analyzing our mental approach is a surprisingly effective way of becoming a better player.

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; thats what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

I love fall because I love the whole cuddling aspect of it, and a sweater dress has that vibe of I'm going to hunker down and be warm, but it's also very feminine.

It is not my job to sit down and read peer-reviewed papers because I simply haven't got the time ... I am an interpreter of interpretations.

I think I'll just go down and have some pudding and wait for it all to turn up - it always does in the end.

...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.

Don't let ups and downs leave you down and out.

Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity would sit down and eat a steak with Keith Olbermann and Barack Obama before they would dine on tofu and asparagus with me!

Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.

Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.

Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue.

I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.

Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

I tell kids that people will let them down and people will hurt them. But Jesus Christ will never let them down and never hurt them.