Down And Quotes - Page 7

There is no better news, than the fact that Jesus can actually turn a life upside down and save it.

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.

I find if I just sit down and think, a solution presents itself.

Living becomes a glorious experience only when it is sweetened by tolerance and love. Willingness to compromise with others ways of living and cooperation in common tasks, these make living happy and fruitful. Certain modes of behaviour have been laid down and proved beneficial by centuries of practice.

When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. (9)

Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.

Do anything, save to lie down and die!

If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little.

My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.

Don’t stand up when you can sit down and don’t sit down when you can lie down.

I edit things down, and I've got a massive dressing room in the country, and so all the things I'm not going to wear but don't want to get rid of go there. And all the stuff I want to get rid of goes to Oxfam.

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.

What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down

[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.

The privilege of being a writer is that you have this opportunity to slow down and to consider things.

Just keep your head down and do your best.

Tell them we'll be dancing, dancing 'til we drop, it's time to get down and do the Horizontal Bop.

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin Cause the only way to find your life is to lay your own life down And I believe it's an easy price for the life that we have found

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.