Quotes of: Down Keyword

Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function.

Alison Jackson

My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.

Isabel Allende

So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that.

Josh Silver

Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under...

Michael Leunig

When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.

Tamara Mellon

When the world falls asleep, authors weave the stories that are called dreams.. and when authors dare to jot down.. that's called making dreams come true.

10 Alone

Worry and regret are both useless weights that provide no drag. They never did anything to slow down the planet for one goddamned second.

100 Sideways Miles

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

2666

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens

Love is like a buffalo with butterfly wings, and I’m just the humble man in the jetpack trying to shoot it down with a bow and arrow. 

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.

Abhorsen

The rhythm of the footsteps, the sound of whatever is coming down the ladder is driving both me and my mom steadily toward peeing our pants.

Anna Dressed in Blood

Assiduity, it means sit down until you do it. Commit yourself to your work and study.

The A-Z of 13 Habits: Inspired by Warren Buffett

I have to smile. He's such a dork. But I'm starting to realize the one good thing that's happened: he's my dork.

All Fall Down

Keep your chin up. Eventually, you will meet someone who cares about your opinion. I'm so sorry I'm not her.

All Fall Down

No! I need to go home," I say, but then the realization comes: My mother was my home. My mother is dead.

All Fall Down

People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".

Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

An Abundance of Katherines

He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking.

Anna Karenina

Words are tears that have been written down. Tears are words that need to be shed. Without them, joy loses all its brilliance and sadness has no end.

Aleph

He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face.

Allegiant