Down and Quotes · Page 30

Nowhere can anyone find a # quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his or her own # soul . We need…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Life is horrible, but it is not relentlessly black from wire to wire. You can sit down and hear a Mozart symphony,…

— Woody Allen

What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every…

— Vernor Vinge

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or…

— Sam Mendes

The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people.

— Brian Webb

I don't really do that whole 'single life' thing. I'm kind of heads down and get things done.

— Ed Sheeran

To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two…

— Catherine Zeta-Jones

A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.

— Norman Reilly Raine

After the woman left, I set my coffee down and opened the bag. Two muffins-double-chocolate and blueberry bran. I texted Adam a…

— Kelley Armstrong

I don't believe our country will last the way we know it much longer unless there's a change. And we just continue…

— Franklin Graham

They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew…

— Margaret Mitchell

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

— Timothy Keller

Down the well," Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

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

— Bob Proctor

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

— Jon Krakauer

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

Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try…

— Jose Mujica

There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just…

— Malcolm Turnbull

That was the first time I've drawn anything for seven years. I feel like I had been held underwater, and someone finally…

— Mick Ebeling

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your…

— Mark Twain

People will know that you can't just smuggle in, hunker down and wait to be legalized. It's not going to work that…

— Donald Trump

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What I hope we will see from [Donald] Trump very quickly is inclusive rhetoric and rhetoric that brings the temperature down and…

— Margaret Hoover

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

— Damian Green