Down Quotes

There are a lot of self important people who make you believe they're artistes and high on the intelligence quotient and I've sat down and listened to them and just been bored.

David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

You can't slow down intense people. They have to burn at their own rate.

You can have a poem like "B-Movie" and sum up thirty conversations that people have had on the subject, but I wrote it down, and other people didn't.

There are many ways to fall down, but there's only one way to stand up straight.

I'm just making fun music so you can let your guard down and enjoy it, don't worry about what's cool and what's not.

I think collaborating with a DJ could be interesting musically and it's something that I'd like to get into down the road, but I think on the live show tip I'm sticking to my guns for right now.

It is a bizarre world. It is an upside down, inside out, quantum physics world. It is the eve of destruction in America.

Too much down time makes us miss home.

How many examples do we have of these bodies [of the state] set up to eliminate a problem, actually eliminating it, shutting down their operations and going home?

Music is something I must do, business is something I need to do, and Africa is something I have to do. That's the way it breaks down in my life.

Someone once said that death is God's way of telling you to slow down. I do enjoy what I do, and the secret of my success is the willingness to grind work out.

I love Toronto's long autumns, warm with windy swirls of golden spores, redolent with giant, sun-roasted leaves flapping up and down the streets, and horrible winter always seeming far, far off!

I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.

A true New Yorker never backs down, and I'm no exception. Holla!

I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think all Brits are, maybe.

I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.

How many a poor immortal soul I have met well-nigh crushed and smothered under its load, creeping down the road of life, pushing before it [an oversized home].

I have no plans to slow down.

Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.

What is meant to be, will always find its way. And when your down and feeling alone, just wanna run away, trust yourself and don't give up. You know you better than anyone else.

If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

You can't just give a speech and expect people to fall down and agree with you.

The best way to break down that fear is to spend time with somebody, put yourself in somebody else's shoes, understand what the other person is going through.

What I am proposing is that we invest from the middle out and the ground up, not the top down. That is not going to work.

Being infected, being a vampire, it’ s always you. Maybe it’ s more you than ever before. It’ s you as you always were, deep down inside.

Sitting down and sharing a meal together combines two of my favorite loves: eating great food and talking about great food.

I know that I'm breaking down barriers. And I know that in the end I'm doing a great thing.

The body, enervated by the excesses of the preceding day, weighs down and prostates the mind also.

In my moments of down time I tend to listen to Blues.

All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.

I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind.

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.

We can neither put back the clock nor slow down our forward speed, and as we are already flying pilotless, on instrument controls, it is even too late to ask where we are going.

Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.

I raged across the field, killing all before me. They ran when they saw me coming, and I chased them down, and killed them before they could take someone else's friend away from them.

When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.

I don't sit down and have meals too often, unless I go out for dinner.

Let me tell about Tennessee. If your car breaks down in Tennessee, you have just moved to Tennessee.

I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.

Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.

It's the way I enjoy making art - I like sitting down and making five beats; I enjoy that process. I can go two weeks without making a song and just making beats and I'll be OK.

Why are you breaking down, incidentally? I mean if you’re able to go into a collapse with all your might, why can’t you use the same energy to stay well and busy?

Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.

My word, Severus, that I shall never reveal the best of you?' Dumbledore sighed, looking down into Snape's ferocious, anguished face. 'If you insist.

I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just came, fully formed.

I will not calm down!