Down and Quotes · Page 10

You think of the book you'd most like to be reading, and then you sit down and shamelessly write it.

— Anonymous

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.

— Franz Kafka

When I write I get to the point where I slow down and I gotta go back into the world and live…

— Rakim

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

— Heather Thomson

If flowers want to grow right out of concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down and smell them.

— David Ignatow

I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

— Bruno Mars

I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.

— Hunter Tylo

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

— Eric Schmidt

If I'm feeling something, I know if it's a song, or if it's a little story that I'm going to write, or…

— Michael Marisi Ornstein

Where did you get that?" Jace looked down and saw that the spider demon's poison had eaten a hole in his shirt,…

— Cassandra Clare

I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the…

— John Shelby Spong

I have a strong theory that all the dead people are looking down and laughing and smiling and saying "Oh look, they…

— Sark

A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims…

— Lawrence Reed

Starting out, I remember being on the same bill with other bands, and I always thought they were so much better because…

— Alexis Taylor

It was as if someone had taken a tiny bead of pure life and decking it as lightly as possible with down…

— Virginia Woolf

If you surround yourself with a bunch of guys who no mas se quieren puro pari and are like, "Aaah, let's go…

— Gabriel Iglesias

When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my…

— Robbie Williams

Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed…

— Edna Ferber

My feet are always cold. I'm a vampire," he said in a teasing voice, almost as if he was trying to chase…

— C.C. Hunter

Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank…

— Charles Dickens

I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would…

— Patrick Stewart

Every time I sit down and write I got to put something conscious in there. It's like I got a job now.…

— Rakim

We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so…

— Gavin MacLeod

You were born with the seeds of your talent, the ability to observe the world around you and weave piece of it…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull the stick…

— Cecil Arthur Lewis

I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and…

— E. B. White

And I'll have you know that if you hurt my son again, if he so much as sighs sadly over his coffee,…

— Christopher Moore

I really did feel like I was surrounded by family members. I didn't have a dad, and I remember there were all…

— Jodie Foster

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold…

— Lev Grossman

You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

He didn't see anything." She rolled to her feet. "I was in your bed! We could have scarred him for life!" "Grace,…

— Jill Shalvis

Growing up in a place that has winter, you learn to avoid self-pity. Winter is not a personal experience, everybody else is…

— Garrison Keillor

The sun machine is coming down, and we're gonna have a party.

— David Bowie

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

— Mark Twain

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

— Augusten Burroughs

Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.

— Natalie Goldberg

I don't regret anything that I've turned down, and I don't regret anything that I've done, really.

— Nick Frost

Prior to [streaming], the idea of sitting down and watching a show every week seemed like a great idea.

— Tom Riley

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

— Anne Lamott

For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.

— Zooey Deschanel