Down And Quotes - Page 25

I've always been looking ahead, which is a good thing, but getting married slows you down and kids slow you down, a little bit. You look ahead, but you've gotta learn to enjoy what you have.

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.

Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance.

You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter.

When you look at the way the pyramids are made, with many chambers that are hermetically sealed, they would have to be that way for a reason. And, you know, various scientists have said, well, you know, there were alien beings that came down, and they had special knowledge, and that's how they were - you know, it doesn't require an alien being when God is with you.

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

If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

You take what you've learned, you pass it down, and you keep working.

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.

You never know what's going to happen, so you just continue with your head down and never expect things to start being handed to you.

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

I definitely can relate to being down and closed-off at certain times in my life.

You reach deep down and bring up what feels absolutely authentic to you as you move along with the book, but you don't know everything about it. You can't.

For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

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

To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.

He [Vince Spadea] was about as down and out as you could see from a Top 20 player. Then to claw his way back through the minor leagues and do it the hard way where he wasn't young, wasn't getting wildcards, wasn't getting any help. I guess he decided he was just going to do it.

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.

Sometimes you have to get down and dirty. It feels good.

I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

Everyone was saying, "Oh, Chumbawamba, they're crap, can't get arrested." But we had absolute faith in what we were doing, so we put our heads down and made the best album we possibly could. Then we got a deal based on the final product.

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.