Down And Quotations

Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.

Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy.

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

'Fabulosity' is to get up when you've been kicked down, and it's not to go after who kicked you down.

Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.

I'm always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.

Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere.

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me.

When you sit down and focus on the matches and series that took place during the 12 month period it strikes you just how broad the talent pool is in international cricket is today.

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.

My children teach me to slow down and enjoy life.

Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties.

I can just put my head down and train hard.

If I fell down and hurt myself, I never cried. There was no one to hear me.

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

I don't relax. I sit down and contemplate all the energetic things I should do.

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

You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.

McEnroe has got to sit down and work out where he stands.

I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.

Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!

You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.

I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face.

A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.

I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.

I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.

I love men who know when to put their foot down and when not to.

I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.

We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.

I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.

There is no better news, than the fact that Jesus can actually turn a life upside down and save it.

Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

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

I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped.

Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the classic symptoms of someone who has a troubled relationship with their father. And yet, I never had a problem with my father.

Grace is thickly counter-intuitive. It feels risky and unfair. It's dangerous and disorderly. It wrestles control out of our hands. It is wild and unsettling. It turns everything that makes sense to us upside-down and inside-out.

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down, he gets polished.

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

It's only in the seventies that I put the sticks down and I moved to the front.

Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.

I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important.

I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.

They were very considerate, I must say. Every time I felt I was about to slip out of these fingers and would yell for help, they'd let me down and re-organize things.

I don't sit down and have meals too often, unless I go out for dinner.

With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.

It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.

Each time a high-wage job is lost, a family is turned upside down. And that affects the communities where they live.

Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.

I don't want to give the illusion that one day God came down and I was healed.

I never really had a career, to be honest with you. I never in my life sat down and planned it. I have thought, 'Oh, I'd like to do this,' like anybody would. But I'm not the type that says, 'If I do this, it will lead to that.'

I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.

You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.

I've got the recording process down, and I can knock it out very quickly.

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

We think if the economy remains weak that we could see mortgage rates trail down and we think that we could see rates below seven percent into early next year.

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down

David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.

The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!

If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place.

I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.

During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.

I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.

The human race should just slow down and think about what it is doing.

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos.

When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want al those thoughts... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep.

I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.

I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.