Down Quotes

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.

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.

A lot of people let me down... A lot of people I thought were my friends turned on me.

I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down the road crying to a full-blast stereo.

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.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

One thing I hate is people screaming at me. If you want me to do something, talk to me. When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.

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.

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

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed.

I want to play a real man in all my films, and I define manhood simply: men should be tough, fair, and courageous, never petty, never looking for a fight, but never backing down from one either.

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

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.

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?

Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.

Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers.

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?

Don't give up. Keep going. there is always a chance that you stumble onto something terrific. I have never heard of anyone stumbling over anything while he was sitting down

Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop.

Deep down, nobody wants a job to occupy his or her time. We want a mission that inspires us.

You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.

One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

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

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.

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.

It takes a million compliments to build you up and one insult to send it all crashing down.

Get knocked down. Get back up. Always be a fighter. Don't be afraid of the punch. Don't be afraid of getting back up. Be afraid of giving up.

I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff.

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

Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .

I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

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.'

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

Exercise, not philosophically and with religious gravity undertaken, but the wild romping activities of a spirited girl who runs up and down as though her veins were full of wine.

Paul Jewell's sides are always hard to break down, although Manchester United have a habit of breaking his sides down pretty easily.

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

Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write.

No matter how many times you get knocked down, keep getting back up.

There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

May I never miss a sunset or rainbow because I am looking down.

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

In life you can fall down 1000 times but the point is to have the willingness to stand up and to start again.

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Our world spins upside down and sometimes we have to lose our grip on the things we value in this life in order to grab on to true life.

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.

Real people aren't perfect; they fall down and mess up and screw up. Those are the kind of people that I look to, and I've always aspired to just be authentic.