Down Quotes

I'm constantly playing this game in my head where I'm thinking, 'Can this quote be pared down and misinterpreted?' It doesn't matter what outlet I'm talking to and how comprehensive the interview is, because I have to think in terms of, 'Right, but 'People' magazine could just take this one quote and take it out of context.'

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it.

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down.

I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.

To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

Getting married and settling down isn't the most important thing in my life.

Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.

If you're saving for the long run, it's actually a good thing when the market is down because the more shares you have, the more you can potentially make when markets rise. And over time - decades, not months - the markets rise more than they fall.

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

I get less and less sleep these days, so when I have any down time all I want to do is sleep!

Computer hacking really results in financial losses and hassles. The objectives of terrorist groups are more serious. That is not to say that cyber groups can't access a telephone switch in Manhattan on a day like 9/11, shut it down, and therefore cause more casualties.

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.

I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious.

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

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 think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me.