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The Cruise missiles do not frighten anyone. We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days, we managed to shoot down 196 missiles before they hit their target.

We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season.

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.

I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them.

The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

The success of the movie industry comes from the story. And the story comes from somebody putting something down on paper.

I may have a feather duster down my pants.

Looked like she was a cold dish with a man until you got her pants down, then she'd explode.

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.

To all my fans who planned to come to the Future History World tour, the pain of letting you down cuts me way deeper than this injury I've sustained.

When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you.

If your oxygen mask drops down, it's time to take a breather!

We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice.

What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.

I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

Dialing down is not an option for me.

I fought back, got injured again and I had to have another operation. I got down and depressed and I think I was drinking more than I should. Well, I know I was.

We don't always know what we're doing. We often just get excited, put something down, and say, 'Oh, neat'.

Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.

I do change the odd lightbulb, and I fix the Internet when it goes down, because it's something I am really good at.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.