Downhill Quotes

• This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Authority
  • Bishops
  • Razors

• Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Important
  • Accepted
  • Downhill

• You have to be a little crazy to be a downhill skier.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Crazy
  • Downhill
  • Skiers

• Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.

  

  Allan Sherman
  • Act
  • Bottom
  • Downhill

• You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • School
  • Knew
  • Downhill

• That's the thing about acting - it does have the feeling of downhill skiing. When it's really all going right, you know your lines, you know what's important to your character, you pick the strongest reactions possible to elements in the story. But then you let it all go and you're in the moment and stuff happens. It surprises you and it's super strong; it's like you're living life in a slightly heightened way in the time between "action" and "cut."

  

  Mira Sorvino
  • Time
  • Important
  • Character

• Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Singing
  • Laugh
  • River