Down Quotes

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.

Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

Pilates is my favorite core strengthener. I do it three or four times a week. With all the strengthening and lengthening, it's like ballet. Plus, you get to do it lying down!

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

If you get stuck to the committed path then... this wall has to be.. KNOCKED DOWN!!

You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.

I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

When you are in deep distress and cannot restrain some expression of it, sit down and write out a harsh letter venting your anger. But don't send it.

I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.

I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it.

Never put anything past anyone. Stop expecting people to be as genuine as you are, it's never the case & it will almost always be a let down.

I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

You get old, you slow down.

Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They're not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.

It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth, In glorious grief and solemn mirth, The shining angels climb.

Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.

I put the words down and push them a bit.

A good name is still to be preferred to great riches. Especially is it to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for two months.

I was very, very large as a kid and never athletic, and my home life was a little upside down and I never felt comfortable.

We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don't have to stay down.

Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down

It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another.

Bottom is bottom, even if it is turned upside down.

Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.

You had to pick something like Blue Suede Shoes because it's the flagship of the Sun label, but then I wanted to dig down and find something like Rakin' and Scrapin'.

I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks.

I don't think top-down works in America.

There are no secrets on an successful software project. Both good and bad news must be able to move up and down the ptoject hierarchy without restriction.

You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down.

Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius lies on the bosom of Memory, and Gratitude at her feet.

Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high.

If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.

For college seniors there should be a week of being allowed to cry. Just break down and cry because you are scared and don't know what's next.

Hey, single malt scotch, youre thirty years old. When are you going to settle down and get married to my stomach?

I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company.

It's amazing where a joke might come from. I find a lot of humour just by metaphorically turning things upside down or literally like my wife's cat.

You have to be as light as you can be and not get weighed down and stuck in your emotion, stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to always be trying to elevate somehow.

The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it!

I was against the war with Iraq. First of all, they didn't knock down the World Trade Centre. It wasn't Iraq that knocked down the World Trade Centre.

The only thing that looks good is the stock market, but if you raise interest rates even a little bit, that's going to come crashing down.

I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.