Down Quotes

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

~ Kyra Sedgwick

I'm well-travelled so I can see places coming up. I went to St. Croix in the West Indies at Christmas and it had been hit by a really bad tornado. Values there have gone down but I guarantee they will be up again in eight years. So I'll get in now while it's cheap as chips.

~ Melanie Brown

If you're an English actor, and you're asked to do an episode - especially the Christmas episode - of 'Downton Abbey,' you can't turn it down. It's like, 'Of course!'

~ Janet Montgomery

Capitalism invariably boils down to barter between two willing parties, neither of whom uses force to work with the other.

~ Ben Shapiro

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

~ Abraham Lincoln

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

~ Charles Baudelaire

We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.

~ Dick Cheney

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

~ Bruce Dickinson

I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it.

~ Simon Cowell

The famous pilot season literally sends shivers down my spine.

~ Lily James

I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star.

~ Rick Riordan

Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spots.

~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

~ Chen Shui-Bian

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

~ Lucy Maud Montgomery

Giant oak trees... have deep root systems that can extend two-and-one-half times their height. Such trees rarely are blown down regardless of how violent the storms may be.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

~ Malcolm De Chazal

Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.

~ Greg Graffin

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

~ Thurgood Marshall

My primary school teacher once poured a bottle of curdled school milk forcefully down my throat. Then I threw it up all over her suede shoes. I'd rather have drunk from the spittoon in Barney's barber shop.

~ Paul O'grady

I failed eighth grade twice, and then they moved me up to ninth grade. Then I failed that and dropped out. My teacher would hand me a test, and I'd grade it myself with an F, then put my head down on the desk.

~ Tig Notaro

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

~ Phyllis Diller

I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.

~ Zoe Sugg

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

~ Marilyn Hacker

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

~ Joseph Campbell

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

~ Calvin Coolidge

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

~ Booker T. Washington

When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength.

~ Tommy Lee

It's as if my left heel is my bass drum and my right heel is the floor tom-tom. I can get snare out of my right toe by not putting it down on the floor hard, and, if I want cymbals, I land flat on both feet, full strength on the floor.

~ Savion Glover

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

~ Woody Allen

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

~ Bella Abzug

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

~ Iris Murdoch

Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contraception.

~ Al Franken

During my teen years, I was real emotional. I could be really up or down.

~ Andie Macdowell

Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.

~ Macaulay Culkin

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

~ Tupac Shakur

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

~ Aimee Mann

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

~ Virgil Thomson

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

~ Anatole France

No one expects the doormat to stand upright, shake itself off, and amble down the street to seek its own happiness.

~ Lynn Coady