Quotes of: Ups-and-downs Keyword

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Don DeLillo

When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

Lionel Richie

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

Maria Shriver

We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.

Sam Harris

The purpose behind terrorism is to instill fear in people - the fear that electrical power, for instance, will be taken away or the transportation system will be taken down.

Vint Cerf

You'll know if you're a famous composer if 20 years from now your name appears on a pull-down menu in Band in a Box, alongside Hans Zimmer.

Cliff Martinez

Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike.

Jeff Bridges

I don't have this weird, natural funny bone that constantly comes out. It's not like my every instinct is to be funny, and I'm always having to dampen that down.

Rachael Harris

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.

Alan Lightman

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

Cecil B. DeMille

I read one chapter of a book and put it down. Thank God for Kindle.

Jimmy Fallon

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

King Solomon

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Henry Van Dyke

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

Jean Paul

You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.

Chris Cooper

Probably the biggest bring-down in my life was being in a pop group and finding out just how much it was like everything it was supposed to be against.

Cass Elliot

I have learned that I have to slow down and appreciate that my daughter still needs me, still wants me to help her negotiate everything in her life.

Constance Marie

When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about.

Elias Canetti

Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?

Joe Cocker

For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.

James E. Faust