Down Quotes
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The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
Katharine Cornell
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I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
Wanda Sykes
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The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.
Nancy Gibbs
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Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.
Sally Phillips
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My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
T. S. Eliot
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I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.
Washed Out
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Samuel Johnson
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Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.
Ted Danson
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The best part about poker is there's no down side.
Samantha Bee
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It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.
Salman Rushdie
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Calvin Coolidge
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I was originally going to train as a journalist, passing a series of exams that winnowed ten thousand applicants down to one hundred places on a National Union of Journalists course.
Warren Ellis
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The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.
Orrin Hatch
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
J. J. Abrams
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
Samantha Power
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It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.
Dan Jenkins
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I profoundly feel that people are letting you down all the time.
V. S. Naipaul
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
Harrison Ford
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I don't think I could ever settle down. I have known too much of the depths of life already, and I would prefer anything to an anticlimax.
Everett Ruess
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I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.
Obie Trice
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There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.
Abraham Lincoln
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
Calvin Coolidge
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Years down the line, I became a food stylist.
Sally Schneider
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NHL clubs don't like having to shut down at a critical part of the season and disrupt our season for anything, let alone a situation where we're not given an opportunity to promote our presence.
Gary Bettman