Down Quotes

I turned down a date once because I was looking for someone a little closer to the top of the food chain.

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

Live Aid turned our world upside down.

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.

Now that I'm on top, everyone wants to bring me down. Everyone's trying to tug at me and take my spot.

And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

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

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

I just get up again when I fall down.

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.

Tolerance and understanding won't 'trickle down' in our society any more than wealth does.

Yoga gave me the ability to calm down.

When we know deep down that we're acting with integrity despite impulses to do otherwise, we feel gates of higher energy and inspiration open inside of us.

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

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.

This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.

An author's first duty is to let down his country.

I wish I had more hands, so I could give those titties four thumbs down!

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

If you look up at the sky after falling down the blue sky is also today stretching limitlessly and smiles at me... I'm alive.

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!

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

Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.

Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.

The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow.

I suppose that some days I wake up I have to wake up and be responsible, reliable and down to earth, and some days I don't.

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?..

He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten at almost any point. I suppose you could say it is like life.

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

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.

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

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

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

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

Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it.

Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

We all have talents that, sometimes, we never quite fulfill. We're all scared, deep down, but maybe we just need to lay it on the line and explore our abilities and just not be afraid of failing.

The key to life is resilience....We will always be knocked down. It’s the getting up that counts.

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.

One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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