Down and Quotes · Page 11

If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.

— Flannery O'Connor

You might be a redneck if somebody hollers ho-down and your girlfriend hits the floor.

— Jeff Foxworthy

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

— Isaiah Mustafa

Writing is my therapy. My feelings build up inside of me and then I sit down and write a song.

— Colbie Caillat

I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.

— Thom Yorke

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

— Charles Bukowski

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

— Chris Abani

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

— Jon Krakauer

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

— Obie Trice

I love a lot of comedy movies. I think I fell in love with comedy when I was younger. My brother and…

— Sarah Wright

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.

— Amy Sedaris

The world has fundamentally changed. It fundamentally changed when the Berlin Wall came down and the 'evil empire' ceased to exist. We…

— Robert Foster Bennett

Teenage girls these days are more and more getting lured into thinking they should dumb themselves down, and that's going to attract…

— Danica McKellar

Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good…

— John Krasinski

I'm not one of these people who sits down and writes to say I'm gonna write a song about this or that,…

— Creed Bratton

It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short…

— Maxwell Maltz

Most people think, when they're young, that they're going to the top of their chosen world, and that the climb up is…

— Dick Francis

Nowadays, there's a lot more that comes before music, that I need to take care of before I can sit down and…

— Patty Schemel

...I asked Ochto what in the name of all that was sacred he thought he was doing. "Helping you," said Dirnes. "Why?"…

— Megan Whalen Turner

Dianetics is not in any way covered by legislation anywhere, for no law can prevent one man sitting down and telling another…

— L. Ron Hubbard

In my experience, when I went to school, and especially in after-school, and during breaks, a lot of people wanted to sit…

— Magnus Carlsen

“The soft black talc blew through the streets like squid ink uncoiling along a sea floor and the cold crept down and…

— Cormac McCarthy

I was captain of the netball team, captain of the hockey team and I did my sprinting, but I would push myself.…

— Jayne Middlemiss

I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've…

— Paddy Considine

But days even earlier than these in April have a charm, — even days that seem raw and rainy… There is a…

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

My father's life was changed right before my eyes [when he trusted Christ]. It was like someone reached down and switched on…

— Josh McDowell

Back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade-that's all that we knew. But now in…

— Bo Jackson

As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions…

— Mickey Edwards

When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses…

— Zhuangzi

You know, an idea is just an idea. There seems to... the kind of epiphanies that you have, like the little sudden…

— Nick Cave

The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A…

— George Orwell

Patrick started driving really fast, and just before we got to the tunnel. Sam stood up, and the wind turned her dress…

— Stephen Chbosky

You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.

— Russell Simmons

Don’t stand up when you can sit down and don’t sit down when you can lie down.

— Kenneth Branagh

If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?

— Juliana Hatfield

Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

— Greg Mortenson

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

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

— Ernest Hemingway

Ignore the naysayers. Really the only option is, head down and focus on the job.

— Chris Pine

Two or three tons of rock can really get you down-and keep you there.

— Kamahl