Down Quotes

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down

In this country, these Negro leaders have Negroes sittin' - sitting down, thinking that that - there's dignity towards sitting in.

Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is.

The Red Army is like a furnace in which all captured soldiers are melted down and transformed the moment they come over.

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside and just ultimately sit down and do the work.

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

We're in a tightening cycle and the reason is the economy is growing, there's no expectation that the global economy and the Polish economy as a consequence could slow down dramatically.

I didn't work on the killing floor. I worked in the section where you break the meat down and package it

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

What I hope we will see from [Donald] Trump very quickly is inclusive rhetoric and rhetoric that brings the temperature down and comforts people so that children feel safe going to school.

My hands look terrible but I can do anything I want to do, so, you know, I just think I'm playing all around with more good taste and not dashing up and down the piano.

you can't set down and stand up at the same time, each situation has its advantages, but you can't be in both places at once ... it can't be did.

You happened to me. You were as deep down as I’ve ever been. You were inside me like my pulse.

When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.

I always think it's a mistake when you actually have to set books aside and actually sit down and research something. I always think they've got to come from within.

It's tempting to remember that the Tea Party had a peak and then the Republican Party establishment sort of beat it back down. And so these things are won in a day.

Poetry is about slowing down. You sit and you read something, you read it again, and it reveals a little bit more, and things come to light you never could have predicted.

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

When I want to read something nice, I sit down and write it myself.

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

The system might be breaking down but something else is breaking through.

In a lot of ways Berlin is a symbol for me of Facebook's mission: bringing people together, connecting people and breaking down boundaries.

I'm gonna hunt my life down and grab it.

It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.

I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'

No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson.

I don't like to think 10 years down the road.

I did however realize that only 4% of the world's population turns creative when in contact with water and thus we dialed this dimension down and changed direction.

Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down." --From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris

My plays are always pushing towards cinema anyway. They're down and dirty, real and more fun.

From the time I could play the piano, I remember trying to write tunes. They were in my head, and I would just sit down and start noodling. Next thing I knew, I had written a melody.

Constant criticism can wear one down and weaken knees.

Shake structures. School yourself. Look twice at a thing, once upside down. Answer yourself clearly.

Frankly, you're always up and down. You're successful and then you're not.

... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

All of the heroes you see falling down were filmed trying to stand up.

He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath. And he let go of my arm and walked back down the hall.

I think I feel vulnerable most of the time. I feel on guard. I've gotten pretty good at putting my fists down and kind of allowing the world to be, so that I don't feel threatened as much.

George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic.

Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.

There was a moment when the Berlin Wall came down and some people felt, "Oh capitalism won. That's the ideology we can believe in now."

I'm very much a jobbing actor who's still trying to find a place to rent down the road.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

I'm not a horror fan. I'm an anti-horror fan. I think horror fans feel deep down in the pit of their souls, they feel safe, and therefore bored. And therefore they want to be scared.

There are certain weights in life you simply cannot carry. Your Lord is asking you to set them down and trust Him. What do you say we take God up on His offer?

Jesus isn't a God who stayed on the mountaintop - he's a Savior who came down and lived and worked with the people.

It feels a long way up and down from zero.

I was able to afford a car that didn't break down every five minutes.