Down And Quotes

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

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

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.

It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

Spread ya legs, arch your back. Go up and down, and make it clap.

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

To finish is sadness to a writer — a little death. He puts the last word down and it is done. But it isn't really done. The story goes on and leaves the writer behind, for no story is ever done.

I see myself as a mascot for the kids who get beat down and don't feel like they belong.

The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We are engaged around the world whether we like it or not.

He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.

What do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.

The best weapon is to sit down and talk.

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

To those that feel down and out…Let today be the day you stand up & fight. Let today be the day you say I won’t quit.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

We come crawling through these cracks, orphans, lobotomies; if you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything. Whole rotten world come down and break. Let me spread my legs.

We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.

There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.

My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks.

You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.

When you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home.

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.

I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

Now it's just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, 'What are you doing for your country?' you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.

When I sit down and play the guitar, Im 20 years old again.

I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into notebook paper.

My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmas time fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.

It's hard to move on when you can see too many good possibilities or any kind of possibility really. That's something that always kind of slows me down and can be a bad place to be in.

You better...buckle uh down and then tighten up to stop this passing game

I never sat down and decided to make work about life and death. It just all comes out of my head like water pouring out of a jug.

An ample arse helps you to be weighed down and be grounded.

I don't come up with ideas, they come to me. I write them down and try to convey what's wrong with me to the audience as best I can.

If they [Mexicans] touch the hair of the head of one of our citizens, tell him [Commodore Dallas] to batter down and destroy their town and exterminate the inhabitants from the face of the earth!

I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

I just write what comes to me. I didn't sit down and say ok, here is my statement. It's just a song that has a shout out.

Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

I spent my entire first pay cheque from Cracker, a TV show on ABC, on an Audi because my other car broke down and I needed to get to work.

Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.

I'm a morning "spinner." That's usually when my brain is thinking too much and I don't necessarily see things positively. So I sit myself down and remember that I'm making it up.