Down And Quotes - Page 5

Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.

I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.

Sometimes when we get our ass kicked and we're down, sometimes we stay down, and sometimes we get depressed and sometimes we don't know how to handle it, and sometimes we don't know what's going on, and sometimes we feel like it's not worth going on.

I’ve seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and how it wears them down. And I just don’t want that in my life.

I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff" pg. 4

I could happily lie down and die sometimes.

I was down after divorce - I was all the way down. And I just felt like, "God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason." And I knew that I had to turn to music.

Anyone can sit down and write some boring artistic song. Pop music is the hardest [stuff] to write.

I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.

To those that feel down and out…Let today be the day you stand up & fight. Let today be the day you say I won’t quit.

When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.

Spread ya legs, arch your back. Go up and down, and make it clap.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.

Let the mind calm down and the heart start to open. Then everything will be very obvious.

When you start writing, you have your characters on a metaphorical paved road, and as they go down it, all these other roads become available that they can go down. And a lot of writers have roadblocks in front of those roads: they won’t allow their characters to go down those roads... I’ve never put any roadblocks on any of these paths. My characters can go wherever they would naturally go, and I’ll follow them.

I do believe that political arrangements which are based upon violence, intimidation and theft will eventually break down - and will deserve to do so.

She went right down into her own personal experience for everything, reached down and pulled something out of herself that was unique and extraordinary. She had no techniques. It was all the truth, it was only Marilyn. But it was Marilyn, plus. She found things, found things about womankind in herself.

Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak.

When the whistle blows, I’m completely exhausted, physically and mentally. I get in the locker room and I sit down and I just exhale. Finally, the danger is over.

When you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home.

Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their loose change funneled blithely upwards to the already overfed.

There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.

You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.

There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.