Down And Quotes - Page 4

That pitch wasn't down and in, that pitch was down and up.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.

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

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

I feel, as a songwriter, it's one of the hardest things to do - to sit down and say how you feel.

So live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you.

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

Over the months, I kept seeing more feathers, especially at moments when I was really down and distraught. You ask for signs in your life, but what you get is more like a confirmation: You are where you need to be. Just take a deep breath.

I’m quite hyper, and my wife would prefer it if I sat down and read a book.

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

Not causing harm requires staying awake. Part of being awake is slowing down enough to notice what we say and do. The more we witness our emotional chain reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain. It becomes a way of life to stay awake, slow down, and notice.

The best weapon is to sit down and talk.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go down and take a stance, then there will be hope.

I'm interested only in expressing basic human emotions. And the fact that a lot of people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate these basic human emotions.

There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

I have angst in my life, but I'm like anybody. We all have angst in our lives that we pick up and fidget with and then we put down and look at some other things that make us feel good or enjoy our lives.

Punk rock isn't supposed to be for everyone. There is that sort of private club mentality, which is necessary. It keeps things from getting watered down and boring.

I'm just gonna do my own kinda swag of kinda dumbing something down and speaking some knowledge.

You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself.

Personally, in real life, Im a little more down-and-dirty than I am glamorous.

I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn't planned; it was realism. Over the years, the work has changed for me. I know that I have wanted to repeat myself, but I can't. I've been lost a lot of times, but then I'd just get an idea and photograph it. Once I'd started, I'd know exactly what would go down and how it would end. So I just quit doing it, because it loses all interest for me when you know what's going to happen.

I see myself as a mascot for the kids who get beat down and don't feel like they belong.

I always tell people there's nothing greater than a crisis to create a breakthrough. Because that's when we breakthrough usually - most people don't proactively breakthrough - they breakthrough because they have to. And the beauty of crisis is it doesn't feel beautiful, is it melts us down. And when you're melted down you can recast your life in a new way.

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