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For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

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

If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion.

It is in falling down that we learn almost everything that matters spiritually.

It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human.

My goal has always been to slow down as slowly as possible. It's as simple as that.

when you stumble, keep faith. And when you're knocked down, get right back up and never listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on.

It's not the falling down that counts. It's the getting up.

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.

Life isn't about the number of times you're knocked down, it's about the number of times you get back up.

There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

Happiness is sitting down to watch some slides of your neighbor's vacation and finding out that he spent two weeks in a nudist colony.

Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.

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.

Looking down on it from the helicopter, with a bottle of Jack in my left hand, a bag of pills in my right hand, and a blond head bobbing up and doen in my lap, I felt like the king of the world.

It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.

Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day.

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

Woah! Calm down, Curly!

Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men.

I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.

Even the best fall down sometimes.

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.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.

Modern houses are so small we've had to train our dog to wag its tail up and down and not sideways.

The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.

I wonder why guys mistreat and disrespect girls. But then they expect life to hand them a good woman when they're older and ready to settle down?

The most beautiful sight in the world is a little child going confidently down the road of life after you have shown him the way.

I won't ever shy away from a fight and if it makes sense down the road, I'll do it. But it will be on my terms.

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 think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

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

I'm no angel if that's what you thought you found. I was just the victim of a man that let me down.

My entire life has been devoted to breaking down barriers, to finding common ground.

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.

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.

Let us face it: 'deep down' nobody in his right mind can visualize his own existence without assuming that he has always lived and will live hereafter.

Change from the top down happens at the will and whim of those below.

Tattoos are like stories - they're symbolic of the important moments in your life. Sitting down, talking about where you got each tattoo and what it symbolizes, is really beautiful.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

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.