Down and Quotes · Page 16

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

— William Shakespeare

If I try to cover too much ground, you start to get watered down and less interesting.

— David Spade

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs.

— Richard Thompson

I would have wanted my mom to see me settle down and to be a grandma to my kids.

— Stephen Dorff

Christmas means Jesus came down and got involved in suffering. He hears your cries.

— Timothy Keller

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever.

— Diana Vreeland

I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them

— Alfred de Musset

You learn a lot from financial disclosure. And you should go down and take a look at that.

— Donald Trump

I've taken my bumps and bruises, but you've got to be willing to get knocked down and pick yourself up. You can't…

— Jermaine O'Neal

If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may…

— Matthew Simpson

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you…

— Layne Staley

I don't think the news department will have to lie down and play dead like it has in the past. By and…

— Roone Arledge

I hate a conscience. It's always making you feel low down and disreputable. I don't believe I will say anything to my…

— Kate Langley Bosher

Most of Set’s forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but…

— Rick Riordan

Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is…

— J. B. Smoove

Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have…

— Keith Rabois

The thing I'm most honored about is every single person that went after me, including Jeb Bush, who's down - boom. Every…

— Donald Trump

Let me give you some advice: Try to approach things without preconceived ideas, without supposing you already know everything there is to…

— Charles de Lint

What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to…

— Salman Rushdie

One of the things about the arts that is so important is that in the arts you discover the only way to…

— David McCullough

We have oral traditions in Mali, and songs are passed down and around this way. I think in the US you can…

— Vieux Farka Toure

There's this notion that actors choose their career. After a certain level, I think that that's true. I still take way more…

— Dallas Roberts

If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to…

— Danny Bonaduce

I only want to keep moving up and up in terms of quality and be careful with perception. I don't just want…

— Nina Dobrev

Since early morning he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks. And when the ducks stood…

— Kenneth Grahame

It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber?…

— Tim Lebbon

This deliberately nurtured hatred then spreads to all that is alive, to life itself, to the world with its colors, sounds, and…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I'm straightforward with my kids, I take my kids out and I bring my daughter to dance lessons. I'm teaching my son…

— Rob Ford

Let's say hypothetically, knowing what we know now about public policy, that we could close the education gap so that it was…

— Barack Obama

The Obama administration asked General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner to step down, and he agreed. This is good news for Obama; the…

— Jay Leno

If at any time I declare concerning a nation or a kingdom, that I will pluck up and break down and destroy…

— Jeremiah

At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John…

— David Wong

The suns going down and we cant afford to come back to it tomorrow.

— Desmond Harrington

She [Theresa May] has done more to bring immigration down and abolish things like bogus colleges.

— Damian Green

Life forgets me but will not let me forget Holds me down and tells me that I'm free.

— Henry Rollins

I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long.

— Joan Severance

My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

— Karl Shapiro

I'd rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.

— Henry Miller

I'm just worn down and weary of bands whose lyrics are cryptic and self-referential.

— Yannis Philippakis

Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.

— Laurie Anderson