Quotes of: Ups-and-downs Keyword

Ichabod Crane: The millennium is almost upon us. In a few months, we will be living in the nineteenth century. But our courts continue to rely on medieval devices of torture. High Constable: Stand down. Ichabod Crane: I stand up for sense and justice...

Sleepy Hollow

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner

Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out a...

Tracy Chevalier

We rise up And we fall down Only to rise again

The Whisper of Your Soul

seven times down eight times up like the Daruma doll

The Way of the Warrior

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

Orson Welles

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

Slash

The ones you help you get up are the ones who know how it feels to fall down.

Saleem Sharma

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.

Kal Penn

To fly up to the sky and watch the earth is beautiful; to fly down to the earth and watch the sky is even more beautiful!

Mehmet Murat ildan

I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.

Melissa Auf der Maur

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

Robert Anton Wilson

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

Mike Tyson

There's a food revolution going on throughout the country. And it doesn't matter if you're down south, up north in Maine, if you're out west in Portland or Seattle.

Tom Colicchio

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.

Murray Kempton

I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.

Dan Fogelberg

They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.

Mike Judge

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

Joe Biden

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

Dolly Parton

My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.

Jo Brand

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

Roy Blount, Jr.