Best Down And Quotes

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 play Xbox. I have a little boy to look after. I have dogs. You know, I have things to do. I would love to be able to sit down and watch something like a movie. I watch my own movies because I have to.

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

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.

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.

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.

For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

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

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.

Sometimes I think He looks down and says, Wow, look what those idiots are up to now. I guess I better help them along a little.

Oh Esperanza!’ said Isabel, jumping up and down and clapping.’I think my heart is dancing.

I love men who know when to put their foot down and when not to.

When I started to get older and I thought, Well, you know now I’m kinda ready to settle down. And I really want to give to children now. Because I feel like I’ve done everything that I wanted to do in my entire life.

When you down and out don’t nobody trust ya, but when you got bread it seems like everybody love ya.

I’m just finding that when I’m sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head.

I knew an actor’s career goes up and down and back up again. Your standing in this business can’t be your whole identity; otherwise, you’re doomed

If you ever get in real trouble, don’t panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere.

A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer’s name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.

When you sit down and think about what rock ‘n’ roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock ‘n’ roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

You’ve got to focus and understand that what you’ve done in training is the best that you could possibly do. Once you’ve done that you can really settle down and let your body take over.

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote ’em down, and when you listen to ’em, whatever you think it’s about… THAT’S what it’s about!

It’s only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

It was practically with people with strings. There was no CG involved, it was just painfully taking Collin [Farrell] and Jessica Biel and putting them upside-down, we built the set upside-down and just try to twist perspective to make it all seem like zero gravity. And it was one of the most difficult things I’ve ever shot.

I had read [Charles] Dickens’s novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting down and writing a chapter every day, not knowing what would happen next. So that’s how I wrote the first draft. And then of course I had to go back and make sure everything worked and change things.

At the start of each year I sit down and look at both calendars and plan it that way. Obviously sometimes there are some overlaps but I have to be organised. At the moment motor racing is taking precedence and I have been quite lucky this year in picking and choosing.

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.