Down And Quotes - Page 6

• this is what I know about courage: You don't have to think about courage to have it. You don't have to feel courageous to be courageous. You don't sit down and say you're going to be courageous. At the moment of action, you don't see it as a courageous act. Courage is the most hidden thing from your eye or mind until after it's done. There's some inner something that tells you what's right. You know you have to do it to survive as a human being. You have no choice.

  Unita Blackwell

  Courage, Eye, Thinking

  Unita Blackwell, JoAnne Prichard Morris (2006). “Barefootin': Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom”, Crown

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• What the men like best are what there's the least sense in, dresses you can't sit down in, that won't stand a lot of action, that hobble you and truss you up and slow you down and fix it so you can't hardly breathe, till finally you're off in one corner, like a bird in a cage, not cluttering up the busy paths in life that men has got to use. That's the styles they really like!

  Ardyth Kennelly

  Men, Clothes, Bird

  4 Copy quote

• Friday is my night for letting my hair down, and once a month a group of my old male friends will come down and stay at our house in Hampshire.

  Rupert Penry-Jones

  Friday, Night, Hair

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

  Stephen Lang

  Fun, Roles, Settling

  4 Copy quote

• A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.

  Todd Burpo

  Mom, Daughter, Morning

  9 Copy quote

• You can never achieve anything in a house unless you have things that have been passed down and you find a place for them for yourself.

  Sister Parish

  House, Achieve, Has Beens

  19 Copy quote

• First draft: let it run. Turn all the knobs up to 11. Second draft: hell. Cut it down and cut it into shape. Third draft: comb its nose and blow its hair. I usually find that most of the book will have handed itself to me on that first draft.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, Book, Cutting

  7 Copy quote

• Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not feel right? Keep sitting there. Think of yourself as a monk walking the path to enlightenment. Think of yourself as a high school senior wanting to be a neurosurgeon. Is it possible? Yes. Is there some shortcut? Not one I've found. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

  Ann Patchett

  Senior, School, Writing

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.60, A&C Black

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader - or any person - in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

  Alice Walker

  Past, Race, Talking

  "Obama is the change that America has tried to hide" by Alice Walker, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2008.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.

  Amanda Palmer

  Song, Ideas, Enough

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

  Jon Anderson

  Believe, People, Get Better

  "The idea is to unravel the onion". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2003.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you are too overwhelmed, then when you sit down and try to write something, it feels forced. There's nothing worse than forced music. I mean, this world has enough of that right now, where it's basically McDonald's making music. 'Everybody needs another hamburger and fries.' Here's a piece of crap that nobody's gonna care about it two years.

  Corey Taylor

  Writing, Mean, Mcdonalds

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Over a four-month period, I sat down and wrote every day. And then there was a novel, and all of a sudden, there were agents and offers.

  Melissa Marr

  Agents, Four, Months

  4 Copy quote

• Work on it every day! Even when you down and out! Even when you not feeling it, still do it!

  Eric Thomas

  Feelings, Stills

  7 Copy quote

• We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.

  Vladimir Putin

  Moving, Past, Should

  Interview with German television channel ARD and ZDF, May 2005.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the second grade, I would just get bored and a joke would pop into my head and I would have to say it. It was almost like I had some brilliant novel in my head that I had to get down, and I would interrupt class all the time and get in trouble.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Class, Bored, Brilliant

  "Anthony Jeselnik on roasting, ripping off Jack Handey, and giving the devil his own TV show". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 12, 2013.

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• The rest of the world cares about how we conduct our affairs because they then take that lead. Were the only leader in the world today. Some are wishing us well, others think that were down and are not going to get back up again, but they are all watching with great interest to see how we conduct our business over the next couple of years.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Couple, Thinking, Years

  9 Copy quote

• God, I feel like hell tonight. Tears of rage I cannot fight. I'd be the last to help you understand... Nothing's true and nothing's right so let me be alone tonight 'cause you can't change the way I am... I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go. It's try and love me if you can. Are you strong enough to be my man? When I've shown you that I just don't care, when I'm throwing punches in the air, when I'm broken down and I can't stand will you be man enough to be my man?

  Sheryl Crow

  Strong, Fighting, Men

  4 Copy quote

• But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.

  Frank Herbert

  Reading, Writing, Differences

  "Shoptalk: learning to write with writers". Book by Donald Morison Murray, 1990.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Programs like food stamps, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, and job retraining help Americans get back on their feet when they are down and out and laid off through no fault of their own.

  Hank Johnson

  Jobs, Feet, Faults

  "Ryan Budget More Fuzzy Math and Magic Asterisks" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2014.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Suggestions? Put it aside for a few days, or longer, do other things, try not to think about it. Then sit down and read it (printouts are best I find, but that's just me) as if you've never seen it before. Start at the beginning. Scribble on the manuscript as you go if you see anything you want to change. And often, when you get to the end you'll be both enthusiastic about it and know what the next few words are. And you do it all one word at a time.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

  6 Copy quote

• Let's acknowledge that men reach for opportunities more quickly and more easily than women. So often as managers, we give the job to whoever starts solving the problem, to whoever jumps in. Since we know men will jump in faster than women in so many circumstances, we have to slow down and encourage more women to sit at more tables.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Opportunity, Men

  4 Copy quote

• Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; thats what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

  Jill Lepore

  Archives, Generations, Mouths

  8 Copy quote

• When Im writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Writing, Irritation, Up Early

  5 Copy quote

• To see cartoon-me positioned (alphabetically) amongst so many of my women heroes and role models ... well, I just broke down and cried. Happy tears. I surely hope that this one-of-a-kind collection of radical American women reaches the hands of all children who want to grow up and become amazing women.

  Kate Bornstein

  Children, Growing Up, Hero

  10 Copy quote