Down Quotes

After all is said and done, sit down.

~ Bill Copeland

Hypnosis is about shutting down the conscious mind and re-igniting the unconscious and the imagination, so while I give instructions to them under hypnosis, the contestants might interpret those instructions in all kinds of ways.

~ Keith Barry

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

~ Roger Mcguinn

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

~ Ben Nicholson

But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.

~ Ernie Banks

It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like homework for adults. I'll have 141 messages from people who will be offended if I don't write back.

~ Mike Birbiglia

I think Jerry Lee is sad. As a musician, he was far more talented than Elvis Presley. Everybody down in Memphis knows that. Elvis became a movie star because he was beautiful. Not that Elvis wasn't talented, but Jerry Lee Lewis was incomprehensibly talented as a musician.

~ Alec Baldwin

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

~ Harlan Coben

It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapons, catapult and peashooter, will no longer pick on Walter the Softy, and his ferocious grimace is to be replaced by a charming, boyish smile.

~ Simon Hoggart

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.

~ Lance Bass

I don't sit down to write a funny story. Every single thing I sit down to write is meant to be sad.

~ Lorrie Moore

I've got so much to do, I don't have time to sit down and be sad.

~ Norma Mccorvey

When e-commerce companies build scale, cost comes down. Companies that can handle scale and reduce costs over time will win. Margins will come from reducing costs over time and not by increasing prices. Technology is the answer at large scale.

~ Sachin Bansal

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

~ Michael Crichton

Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs.

~ Timothy Noah

I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.

~ Alice Barrett

I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

~ R. Kelly

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

~ George Washington

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

~ Grover Norquist

Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips.

~ Ann Coulter

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

~ Robert Orben

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

~ Tom Petty

Banks have a new image. Now you have 'a friend,' your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?

~ Alan King

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

~ Edward Young

When I turned 16 and got my license, the Chevy Blazer was passed down from my sister, so it was very much a starter car.

~ Amy Purdy

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

~ Dave Barry

When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of various celebrities. They are bigger than King Kong, and more frightening.

~ Rebecca Pidgeon

If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.

~ George C. Wallace

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

~ Prem Rawat

We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'

~ Yvette Nicole Brown

There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.

~ Jake Shimabukuro

I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.

~ Yani Tseng

I collect all the reviews of the films I turned down. And when they're bad - I have to smile.

~ Simone Signoret

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

~ Hugh Grant

A romantic is someone who believes that something is valuable even if it doesn't last. And a non-romantic is someone who says that if something doesn't endure, or can't be logically proved and pinned down, it's worthless.

~ Sebastian Faulks

I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went.

~ Lauren Willig

Get this, kids - how a man proposes isn't what makes him romantic. It's how a man purposes to lay down his life that makes him romantic.

~ Ann Voskamp

We've stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven't let the success thing go to our head.

~ Ashley Olsen

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

~ Camille Paglia

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

~ Don Marquis