Down and Quotes · Page 15

I just keep my head down and work hard on what I do.

— Clint Black

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

— Jena Malone

I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.

— Tiger Woods

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

— Orison Swett Marden

It was here we turned the coffee cups upside down. And your eyes and the moon swept the valley.

— Carl Sandburg

An ample arse helps you to be weighed down and be grounded.

— Pedro Almodovar

When you are down and out, find something or someone to love.

— Jon Jones

What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense.

— Bob Proctor

I needed to slow down and quiet down deeply into a lot of these questions, yet at the same time what I…

— Dani Shapiro

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and…

— Jonathan Nolan

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I…

— Jules Shear

The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide…

— W. Clement Stone

The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer -- prayer for those whose lives…

— George W. Bush

I think cults are probably a little less scary. To me, it's scarier that 25 people would wear robes and jump up…

— Annie E. Clark

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid,…

— Martin Amis

I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up…

— Salman Rushdie

Film is a two dimensional thing - it goes up and down and left to right but if you put that music…

— Fatih Ak?n

We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I…

— Walt Disney

I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came…

— Francine Prose

It's pretty easy to decide to roll with the punches, to look at the enormity of natural disaster and choose to hunker…

— Seth Godin

Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and…

— Charles Dickens

I had $20 million in the bank, girls are following me all over the f - place, people call my name everywhere…

— Rick James

I peed in my wife's boot once. On honeymoon, in Madrid, we were drinking absinthe and somehow made it back to our…

— Rob Corddry

My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong…

— Jonathan Groff

Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that…

— Sanford Meisner

I think a lot of people believe that they have to be poor to serve God, that they can't have anything. They…

— Joyce Meyer

After the last shovel of dirt was patted in place, I sat down and let my mind drift back through the years.…

— Wilson Rawls

She leaned down and looked at his lifeless face and Leisel kissed her best friend, Rudy Steiner, soft and true on his…

— Markus Zusak

My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's…

— Paula Vogel

As a citizen I felt appalled that we WENT TO WAR over faulty information - that felt false or at least "stretched"…

— Christopher Durang

I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part…

— David Sedaris

Let's say I am a chocoholic and I eat tons of chocolate a day. A hundred thousands of tons a day. I…

— Charles Koch

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

— Wole Soyinka

Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

In every war at some point in time, you do sit down and negotiate.

— Michael Mullen

The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown.

— Francis Quarles

If I'm stuck, I'll sit down and read. That's a big thing.

— Craig Finn

I won't sit down And I won't shut up And most of all I will not grow up

— Frank Turner

Life is a free fall parachute jump. Pray all the way down and hope for a safe landing.

— Robert G. Allen

To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.

— Anne Enright