Down And Quotes - Page 10

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

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.

[My muse] she's impatient with me, because I don't do what I should do: sit down and write.

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

Over the decades, you got various companies involved in making escalators and you've got Metro varying between internal repair crews and contractors. They're dealing with old equipment, which of course is prone to break down, and the repair crews don't even know what's busted or who made the busted parts till they tear the things open. Then sometimes they have to go back to the shop and manufacture parts, because the original maker has gone out of business.

You don't want to get me started about apple martinis and the affect they have on my lovemaking. I might just throw you down and make some love to you right here and now.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.

Some days I have a knot in my stomach because I've got to sit down and come up with something in womenswear that no one else came up with.

We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.

These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves.

I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

...the thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

It is well known that when Thomas A. Eddison was stymied by a problem, he would lie down and take a short nap.

You just have to learn how to fall down and get back up again. You just have to keep going.

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.

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

Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.

Conversation didn't seem necessary when I put the accordion down and swung some young lady around the floor.

Procrastination is a common reaction to feeling overwhelmed or fear of failure. Instead of taking on too much at once and overwhelming yourself, break things down and take one small action step at a time.

It was good to learn so early. They're not going to be kind to you. You have to do it and get on, and then gulp down and get better.

You jump on a bike and start peddling. You fall down and you get up again. I've always been a 'learn by doing' kind of guy.