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Learning about ourselves is rather inconvenient because it turns the world we live in upside down.

Tim Henman, I guess, is sitting in the locker room, pacing up and down.

Pot is like a gang of Mexican bandits in your brain. They wait for thoughts to come down the road, then tie them up and thrash them.

Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there.

Backing down can become a way of life.

Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein.

How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch.

The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsofts business practices.

I always say that as church falls into demise, we still have the inclination to congregate whether by a night of music or a festival, or just sitting down to listen to some vinyl.

A life is never useless. Each soul that came down to Earth is here for a reason.

A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.

Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity would sit down and eat a steak with Keith Olbermann and Barack Obama before they would dine on tofu and asparagus with me!

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down.

Top-down authority structures turn employees into bootlickers, breed pointless struggles for political advantage, and discourage dissent.

I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face.

Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable, immoderately perceptive, small-area faces, a stunning and final girl.

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.

[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.

Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.

You just have to learn how to fall down and get back up again. You just have to keep going.

There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.

The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear.

Slow down? Rest? With all eternity before me?

Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didnt say to me calm down, like The New York Times said. Because I was not deranged.

I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.

Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.

I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

I got a lot of grief from my teammates about that. It might backfire on my mom. Hopefully, my brother will have another chance somewhere down the road.

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer - prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down. And I'm one of them.

Our philosophy is to go for one company at a time, and go for its finances. If we had gone down and protested outside HLS every day for the last five years we would have got nowhere

In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party

Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.