Down Quotes

There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

To slow down is to be taken into the soul of things.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Trust Me. Life is not worth living feeling sad and down and lonely. Always be true to who you are.

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

Deep down within all of us is a longing to work out what life is all about and what we're meant to be doing.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

I never fall down. I always fight.

Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

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.

If I'm in ya starting five you will never need a sub and I'm never looking down, so I always know what's up.

Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.

Depend on yourself and you'll never be let down.

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

I fantasize and idealize myself as Bugs Bunny, but I know deep down I'm Daffy Duck.

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.

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.

Just go on dancing with me like this forever and I'll never tire. We'll scrape our shoe on the stars and hang upside down from the moon.

Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.

Love comes again Just when I've broken down I found Love can come again You've got to believe that.

Anything you adopt temporarily only begets temporary results, and fluctuating your weight up and down is not lifespan favorable.

The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.

We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.

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.

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

It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.

When you feel yourself breaking down, may you break open instead.

Don't just give up, Hachiko. Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time. If you keep getting up, you win.

Because - oh shut up laughing, you two - because they've just been turned down by girls they asked to the ball!

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.

You said I'm a god. Bring me down from heaven. I...I want you to see me as a man.

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down

I just want to give you this one piece of advice: if you're standing and you could be sitting, sit. If you're sitting and you could be lying down, lie down.

If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.

Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.

My gratitude towards fans has always been sitting itself deep down there in my heart.

Live Aid turned our world upside down.

You know what days these are? The days of Elijah. We are in the days of Elijah! Fire is falling down from heaven!

We believe deep down that we've lost something precious and are seeking it outside ourselves, never realizing that we are carrying it within us wherever we go.