Down Quotes
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Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
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Some of my ideas were shot down by Lucasfilm because they stepped on territory that has been reserved for the movies. I didn't have a problem with that.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?
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In 1775, no fewer than nine colonies had established churches, ranging from Congregational establishments in New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts to Episcopal churches in the southern states from Maryland on down.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.
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I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down.
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Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.
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Don't let the muggles get you down.
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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If you rent, that's it. You don't have to pay any interest to anybody. You don't have to pay any maintenance costs to anybody. You don't have to worry about whether the boiler is going to break down. While if you own your own home, you have a hundred aggravations.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
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I've always hated the danger part of climbing, and it's great to come down again because it's safe.
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I only started playing piano because I had chickenpox when I was about 14 and wasn't allowed to play my drums for a whole week... We had a piano in the house, so I just sat down and played that instead.
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To pump up consumer or government demand would force interest rates up and asset prices down, possibly by enough to destroy more jobs than are created.
