Down Quotes

We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?

I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I don't really feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me.

The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Ann Landers It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

I saw how, when my brother smoked reefer, it made my mother cry. He was 16 at the time. And I saw that she broke down and cried. I never wanted to hurt my mother, so I kept away from drugs.

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.

Love is down to earth and it reaches to the highest star; it is the valey of humility and the mopuntaintop of ecstasy.

The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.

I laugh like a fool when I watch a movie that I've done several years down the road when it's on cable, i'll just watch and sadly laugh along.

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.

If there are no roads you can walk, break down the walls!

Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.

I let the American people down.

Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.

When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.

Every thing in this world exist to wear you down

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract the wrong kind of guy, and it's serious. It's serious business.

After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.

I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.

Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.

I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it.

I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.

Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.

I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

I'm going down in history with Star Trek. It's a great feeling.

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.

I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.

When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of various celebrities. They are bigger than King Kong, and more frightening.

I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.

Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

It didn't even really matter how good the band was - if someone could keep a beat, then you were prepared to jump up and down and smash around.

I saw at a young age that one bad break can turn a family's financial life upside down. And it has affected everything in my life since then.

My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life.

The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy.