Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?

It is so much easier sometimes to sit down and be resigned than to rise up and be indignant.

Trust yourself…dig deep down and ask yourself who you want to be? Not what, but who?

There’s a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

I’m not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

Sometimes, when I want to take on the world, I try to remember that it’s just as important to sit down and ask my son how he’s feeling or talk to him about life.

Having the privilege of sitting down and having 3 hour long uninterrupted conversations with hundreds of brilliant people is an awesome perspective enhancer.

I walked slowly out on the beach. A few yards below high-water mark I stopped and read the words again: WRITE YOUR WORRIES ON THE SAND. I let the paper blow away, reached down and picked up a fragment of shell. Kneeling there under the vault of the sky, I wrote several words, one above the other. Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC.

My mother always accused me of being in love with the sound of my own voice. When we went on road trips, she’d be like, ‘Stop singing. Be quiet, you’re talking just to hear yourself speak.’ It was probably true. I like to ramble on, which is probably why I’m well suited to interviews. You know, there’s no other forum where you’re literally supposed to sit down and just talk for hours about yourself. I love it.

As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is Love of Oneself.

You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.

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

The impact of improving health is that the population growth goes down, and so you can educate more kids, feed more kids.

Chase him down and stall for time. I need two more minutes. Chase him down? How? The Neon has a flat. With your own two feet! You mean exercise?

The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.

Let’s say hypothetically, knowing what we know now about public policy, that we could close the education gap so that it was only a couple percentage points, and we could make sure that hiring barriers and educational barriers had been leveled down, and unemployment among African Americans right now instead of being double was only 10 percent higher than white unemployment – if we got to that point , America as a whole would be a lot richer.

Going to religious places gives me clarity. When I am sitting there, I am in a state of gratitude with my defence mechanism down and am open to receiving that energy, that gives me clarity as at that time, you are listening to your heart. The heart shows you the direction in life. The mind exists only to execute your emotion.

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

I used to live at the Cecil Hotel, which was next door to Minton’s [Playhouse]. We used to jam just about every night when we were off. Lester [Young], Don Byas and myself – we would meet there all the time and like, exchange ideas. It wasn’t a battle, or anything. We were all friends. Most of the guys around then knew where I lived. If someone came in Minton’s and started to play – well, they’d give me a ring, or come up and call me down. Either I’d take my horn down, or I’d go down and listen. Those were good days. Had a lot of fun then.

The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.

When I was younger, I was just always looking for – you’re always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl. And then, as I’ve gotten older, different things are really important to me, like just honesty. Being able to sit down and have a conversation.

Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico.

When I’m late it matters, but when everybody else is late it doesn’t matter… If that’s the rule then just write it down and then I know, you know… I’ll read it and I’ll write it down on my balls. Right here. Right here on the back of my balls is where I’ll write it. On the very back. I’ll just lift them and write it nicely.

I’d asked girls out and they’d turn me down, and so finally it got to the place where you didn’t want to be rejected. And so you just didn’t ask.

Astronomy says: the sun will rise tomorrow,Zoology says: on rainbow-fish and lithe gazelle,Psychology says: but first it has to be night, soBiology says: the body-clocks are stopped all over town andHistory says: here are the blankets, layer on layer, down and down.

The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don’t fall down and kill people.

I think it’s a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin’ against that blue sky? Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..

There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.

It reset and mended my freshly damaged and distorted view of life, and made me recognize that this thing we call music, this primal expression that we reshape and refine and define ourselves with, is the gift I was given. The ability to communicate what others feel but cannot fully express, the passing down and around of songs and stories, from Pete Townshend to Joey Ramone to me, to the audiences who take the time and effort to support our work and give us a way to support ourselves — I’m thinking this is what I am supposed to be doing.

In the old days of America when communities were separated by hundreds of miles, why were they able to thrive? Because if it was harvest time and the farmer was up in the tree picking apples and fell down and broke his leg, everybody pitched in and harvested his crops for him. If somebody got killed by a bear, everybody took care of their family.

I am a delightfully evangelical guy about things I love. I am that annoying guy who sits everyone down and forces them to read some book I like. I’m looking across the full spectrum of genres.

I wish I could find people who just would fight me and break through to me and hold me down and scream their life into my face.