Down And Quotes - Page 21

If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?

Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has "given up." It's quite the contrary.

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.

The time for reminiscing is after rugby. Then you can sit down and get fat.

I knew that if I wanted to really maintain control, I would have to keep the budget down. And I did. And I feel very fortunate that - y'know, this movie [Don Jon] - frame for frame, line for line - is exactly what I wanted it to be. Nobody made me change anything.

...he was leaving me. I wondered if I should stop him. If I should wrestle him to the ground and force him to love me. I wanted to hold his shoulders down and shout into his face.

Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.

In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.

She had a dour Presbyterian mind and a code of morals that pinned down and beat the brains out of nearly everything that was pleasant to do.

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

I will not stop in our efforts to hunt down and kill the terrorists.

No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.

There's virtually nothing to stop the cold air from off of Hudson Bay from flowing down across the midlands. So you get good contrast: the warm air coming up -- the cold air coming down -- and where they meet is your typical frontal location.

I wouldn't choose conscientious objector and I wouldn't go to Canada. I did what Hap did and almost went to prison. I think the threw me a bone as the war was winding down, and I think they accepted my sincerity for being against that war.

On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was not adopted.

I'd like to have seen Tony Morley left on as a down-and-out winger.

Jeff [Gordon] doesn't sit down and explain things. We don't sit and have meetings where I'm the student. He really teaches by example. I've learned a lot on and off the racetrack.

I've had lots of setbacks. mainly injuries and undergoing surgery, but I just have to knuckle down and get on with it.

I fall down and my palms split open against the gravel. Injuries on the outside are easy to endure and I get up without hesitation.

You need to have many points of reference; many places to touch down and make contact with.

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.

You either trust me or you don't. I've never let you down, and I won't walk away unless you make me. Period. Now, unless you have a real emergency, I'd like to get back to my vacation. And my corpse, thanks.

When children arrive, or when some crisis occurs, couples don't have the resources to deal with it because they've been so busy getting on with their lives. They haven't learned how to sit down and discuss things.

I would say that I had to change about eating out. I used to love eating out all the time. Eating out isn't always good. I ate a lot of fast food. So I had to slow that down and that's helped me a lot.