To those that feel down and out…Let today be the day you stand up & fight. Let today be the day you say I won’t quit.

I'm an artist first and foremost. So things are gonna go up and down and sideways and whichever way all through life.

I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

I've had lots of setbacks. mainly injuries and undergoing surgery, but I just have to knuckle down and get on with it.

David Letterman is the best late-night talk show host right now, hands down, and has been since he first took the desk.

Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.

When you know your name, you should hang on to it, for unless it is noted down and remembered, it will die when you do.

THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining.

It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.

If someone lies down and invites you to trample upon him, you are a remarkable individual if you decline the invitation.

If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.

The sun exactly at noon is exactly [beginning to] go down. And a creature when he is born is exactly [beginning to] die.

In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.

The Red Army is like a furnace in which all captured soldiers are melted down and transformed the moment they come over.

He so did not sit down and have a proper talk with her. I know it. He probably sent her a brief text, saying, Over. Sam.

I sat down and wrote some jokes and went to the talent show, got up on stage, fell in love with it and never turned back.

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.

The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.

New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down, he gets polished.

Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?

So live. Live. Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you.

You jump on a bike and start peddling. You fall down and you get up again. I've always been a 'learn by doing' kind of guy.

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

I'm not a bit changed - not really. I'm only just pruned down and branched out. The real me - back here - is just the same.

Whenever I have faced a setback I have dusted myself down and got on with the rest of my life because I believed in myself.

You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.

My sense of identity broke down and was replaced by something that is very hard to put into words. Awareness, Consciousness.

Isabelle tugged her tank top back down and glared at her brother. “You don’t knock now?” “It’s my bedroom!” Alec spluttered.

We been on the road for 18 hours... I need a bath, some chow... and then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies,eh?

Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.

When a man gets up so high (spiritual mountaintop) that he cannot reach down and save poor sinners, there is something wrong.

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

Think of it like running down a slope. If you attempt to slow down and choose your steps, you’re bound to trip up and stumble.

Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.

Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.

As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go down and take a stance, then there will be hope.

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.

The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.

No more Lastrygonians.” Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. “Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep.

I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.

There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players.

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.

I fall down and my palms split open against the gravel. Injuries on the outside are easy to endure and I get up without hesitation.

Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

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