Down And Quotes - Page 14

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

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.

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.

I have a hard time with scheduling, and with hunkering down and planning. That's always been a struggle for me.

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.

The only thing America respects is power and power concedes nothing. After the LA Riots, they tried to calm us down and nothing changed since.

I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive.

I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.

Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.

I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.

No more Lastrygonians.” Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. “Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?

Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.

Pride looks down, and no one can see God but by looking up.

I don't regret anything that I've turned down, and I don't regret anything that I've done, really.

The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.

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

When you are down and out, find something or someone to love.

I really don't want to encourage young writers. Keep them down and out and silent is my motto.

I think when you do radio there's a certain amount of freedom that when you walk in and sit down and turn the mic on, it's you. It's all you.

But I trusted him once and I decide to do it again. I just pray to God he doesn’t shove me down and break me, because I’m already in too many pieces and I just don’t know how much more breaking I can take.

You might be a redneck if somebody hollers ho-down and your girlfriend hits the floor.

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

There is NOTHING you can do with your running time that is better for you than running. Any other activity only pulls you down and erases passion.

Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and you have to push it down and start again, but you don't stop; it's your trade.