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You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.

Insecurity prevents young artists from 'flying' and older artists from being 'down to earth.' Young artists should work on their confidence and the older ones on their humility.

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.

When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage Its drifting in detachment down the road.

There is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . . Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking . . . Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

Do what is necessary to be resilient. You will get knocked down. What matters is that you get back up.

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn't the right one.

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.

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?

The new painting has broken down every distinction between art and life.

I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.

There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

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.

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.

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

The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.

Eat better or work out more, and youll see the benefits weeks, months or years down the road. Sleep more, and youll see the benefits tomorrow.

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.

Greece's history in the drachma was an up-and-down history, a roller coaster.

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school.

After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

My beard grows down to my toes, I never wears no clothes, I wraps my hair Around my bare, And down the road I goes.

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

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.

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

The fantasist in whom the reality barrier has broken down is unreliable, believing things when he should not, and telling things as true when they are not.

As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy.

And I believe in the 13 years Judge Roberts was there, he never turned down a request to give some assistance on a pro-bono case, and this was no different.

McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands.

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

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

I write in the mornings. During my down time.

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.

If Darwin could get into a submarine and see what I've seen, thousand of feet beneath the ocean, I am just confident that he would be inspired to sit down and start writing all over again.

You know, it's a truism that writers for children must still be children themselves, deep down, must still feel childish feelings, and a child's surprise at the world.

It's an up and down thing, the human goals, because the human is always an explorer, an adventurist.

My teammates know I'm down to earth. I'll joke with them. But when it comes to basketball, I try to be serious about it.

Procrastination isn't the problem. It's the solution. It's the universe's way of saying stop, slow down, you move too fast.

It's up and down, and people are going to love things you do, people are going to hate things you do.

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

I have fantasies of burning down an insurance company just so THEY have to make a claim.

He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.

I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.

Cancer is not a straight line. It's up and down.