Down and Quotes · Page 59

It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.

— Steven Tyler

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have…

— Jo Nesbo

I have learned to not let a bad race or failure bring me down, and always walking away with something positive and…

— Erin Hamlin

I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and…

— Taylor Swift

I find if I just sit down and think, a solution presents itself.

— Sean Connery

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was…

— Peggy Fleming

To really know life you've got to be part of life. You must get down and look, you must get into the…

— L. Ron Hubbard

And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our…

— William Goldman

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Sometimes, unfortunately, when we make choices there are consequences but, ultimately, the longer we keep things down and hold them secret, the…

— Shari Wiedmann

I've always found that the best things I've ever written, or the things I like the most that I've written, are things…

— Drew Magary

I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write…

— Bret Easton Ellis

The sun exactly at noon is exactly [beginning to] go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly [beginning to]…

— Hu Shih

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I never sat down and wrote, but what I do is kind of act as a dramaturge for the piece. I am…

— Larry Charles

For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is…

— William Graham Sumner

He so did not sit down and have a proper talk with her. I know it. He probably sent her a brief…

— Sophie Kinsella

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

— Diana Vreeland

The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist…

— Rick Riordan

I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.

— Frank Herbert

I became so desperate that I considered throwing Eric [Beck] off the ledge. I thought I could get down and then lie…

— Dave Cook

Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.

— Sharon Jones

Quite often I'll turn on the television and something like Sound of Music will be on or Victor/Victoria and I might watch…

— Julie Andrews

I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and…

— J. Golden Kimball

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime…

— Florence Welch