Down Quotes
23748 quotes by 11295 authors
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Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house-the color of the slates and bricks,…
— Benjamin Britten
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
— Emily Bronte
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music.…
— Garth Brooks
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And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know…
— Geraldine Brooks
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I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black Hawk Down' was…
— Geraldine Brooks
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If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go down to the…
— Geraldine Brooks
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Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with…
— Mel Brooks
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I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at…
— Joyce Brothers
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Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it…
— Alton Brown
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My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a…
— Chris Brown
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country.…
— H. Rap Brown
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I used to think like Moses. That knocked me down for a couple years and put me in prison. Then I start thinking like Job.…
— James Brown
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I've been knocked down a lot of times.
— James Brown
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When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get…
— Les Brown
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Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
— Les Brown
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The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the…
— Louise Brown
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your…
— Pam Brown
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We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'
— Yvette Nicole Brown
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The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier…
— Julie Burchill
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Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to…
— Luke Bryan
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