Down Quotes

Before coming down here, most of us didn't know the difference between coral and a sponge. I used to think of fish as wheat, something you harvest. I can't think the word 'supply' and 'fish' in the same sentence now.

You can't get too excited when you do a good performance or too down when you do a bad one, you have to stay emotionally level, and that is harder at a home Games. Her mind will be the main thing.

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

But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

Everything is in slow motion down there and silent. It could replace psychotherapy.

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

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

When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.

People fail to slow down and pay attention. People keep driving like it is a sunshiny day, and it isn't.

Full of gloomy reflections at my loneliness and the poverty-stricken aspect of the whole farm, I sat down, thinking how I could escape from the accursed spot.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.

No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

She just went down screaming. It was probably the worst sports injury I've ever seen. Her leg was at a 90-degree angle, from her knee to her ankle. It was snapped in half.

Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.

I let the American people down.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

I may have a feather duster down my pants.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.