Down Quotes

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

~ W. C. Fields

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.

~ Orville Wright

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.

~ Alan Greenspan

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

~ George Orwell

It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to lay down its weapons for fear - usually justified - the other side would beat them to a pulp.

~ Pat Sajak

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

~ Tom Peters

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

~ Paul Ryan

The House of Representatives should not be locked down by the decided play of a few in leadership.

~ Jeff Fortenberry

When you bring telomerase RNA levels down by using a mechanism that targets the RNA for destruction, the cells which were running on very high telomerase levels are now running on a lean diet of telomerase.

~ Elizabeth Blackburn

The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize it's not normal, and hadn't been normal for about 20 years.

~ Carre Otis

When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.

~ Peter Shilton

In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.

~ Dennis Quaid

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.

~ Leonard Alfred George Strong

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

~ Marie Curie

Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.

~ H. P. Lovecraft

Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.

~ Domhnall Gleeson

I get pretty much all the exercise I need walking down airport concourses carrying bags.

~ Guy Clark

Thanksgiving is the only day of the year when most of the stores here are closed during the day and reopen after midnight. Even restaurants shut down for the holiday, except for the fast-food chains.

~ Sayed Kashua

It's much more powerful and compelling to create a positive vision than it is to tear somebody down.

~ Mark Mckinnon

For my 10th birthday, what I wanted was Beatle boots and a Beatle wig. My parents couldn't find Beatle boots, but down at the dime store, Woolworths or someplace, they found a Beatle wig!

~ Ron Howard

There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.

~ Jeremy Renner

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

~ Sam Neill

My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.

~ Michael Douglas

I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

~ Vin Diesel

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!

~ William Pitt

I have in the past overly trusted people and was, in turn, let down by some. Since then, I have learned the difference between putting faith into people and blindly trusting them.

~ Do Won Chang

I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.

~ George Lois

I don't design down to a price.

~ James Dyson

When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.

~ Edgardo Osorio

To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.

~ Alain De Botton

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

~ Theresa May

When the trust between the police and the communities they serve breaks down, everyone is at risk.

~ Eric Schneiderman

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

~ Dave Grohl

After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek,' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.

~ Busy Philipps

I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.

~ Mitch Hedberg

It's obviously funny to be a meme, so I could be down with it in that regard, but it also belittles one's art.

~ Grimes

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

~ David Bowie

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

~ Fred Allen