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“If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female pedestrian, bare his teeth in a big smile, and tempt her into his car with a wild roll of the eyes. A lady who fails to appreciate his passion will qualify as an idiot who doesn't realise how lucky she is to have the opportunity of getting to know the owner of this 100-horse-power motor car.”

Source: My Discovery of America

“My dreams are the usual incoherent nonsense. Like most writers, at some point in my career I thought, well, I have these great dreams but I always forget them in the morning so I’ll leave a pad on my bedside table so I can write it down, and then you have some incredible dream and you write it down and the next morning you wake up and you’ve written ‘purple socks’.”

Writing Wells I Can Dream Next Forget Careers Morning Written Wake Up Down And Tables Incredibles Nonsense Usual Purple Sock Pads

Author:George R. R. Martin

“The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love.”

Heart May Goodness And Love Bases Infinite Down And Wave Surface Core Deep Down

Book:Swami Vivekananda on Himself

Source: Swami Vivekananda on Himself

“I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.”

Matter Inspiration Worry Sitting Down And Sitting Down

Author:Frank Herbert

“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.”

Ideas Down And Size Sat Trilogies

Author:Veronica Roth

“All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.”

People Way Writing Sitting Letters Down And Tales Symphony Exaggerated Composing Sitting Down Gershwin

Author:George Gershwin

“I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.”

Ifs World Mind Soul Reason Heaven Felt Space Race Brain Silence Knowing Heard Strange Ears Down And Boxes Finished My Soul Broke Lifts Funeral Boots Bells Solitary Numb Plunge Tolls Treading

Author:Andrew Solomon

“It's [“Into Thin Air”] there in print forever. It's part of history. People should be above taking someone else down. And for what? For money and egos people are willing to destroy other people to further their careers.”

People Should Careers Forever Air Willing Ego Down And Print Thin Air

Author:David Breashears

“We just have to keep our heads down and keep doing everything that we've been doing. This isn't a bunch of guys that are just going to go out and brag We're going to race every week like we have never won a race before. That's the kind of determination that you need when you are going to do this stuff.”

Needs Kind Guy Stuff Race Week Determination Down And Bunch Brag

Author:Kevin Harvick

“Every day, I am reminded that our life's journey is really about the people who touch us. When you die, it does not mean you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and in the manner in which you live. So live. Live! Fight like hell. And when you get too tired to fight, then lay down and rest and let somebody else fight for you.”

People Mean Doe Dies Fighting Loses Hell Our Lives Journey Beats Down And Lays Tired Cancer Beat Cancer

Author:Stuart Scott

“It’s a job. It’s not a hobby. You don’t write the way you build a model airplane. You have to sit down and work, to schedule your time and stick to it. Even if it’s just for an hour or so each day, you have to get a babysitter and make the time. If you’re going to make writing succeed you have to approach it as a job.”

Ifs Way Writing Jobs Hours Succeed Approach Models Down And Sticks Each Day Airplane Hobbies Schedules Babysitter

Author:Rosellen Brown

“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.”

Fighting Hell Down And Lays Tired Beat Cancer

Author:Stuart Scott

“When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and out. It may be a stroke of luck, and when you look back years later you may say to yourself that you wouldn’t for anything in the world exchange the new life disaster has forced upon you for the dull, humdrum existence you would have led if circumstances hadn’t intervened.”

Ifs Thinking World Years Looks May Existence Careers Crime Circumstances Down And Luck Disaster Dull Folly Misfortunes Strokes New Life Incidents Shattered Humdrum

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it's a tornado that I'm controlling. It's creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.”

Ifs Way Looks Art Ideas Different Whole Song Creating Art Is Down And Chaos Reactions Different Ways Upside Down Tornadoes Things Upside Down

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I'm a controversial artist, one who dares to have an opinion and bothers to create music and videos that challenge people's ideas in a world that is watered-down and hollow. In my work I examine the America we live in, and I've always tried to show people that the devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. So don't expect the end of the world to come one day out of the blue – it's been happening every day for a long time.”

People World Long Ideas Ends Shows America Artist Challenges Opinion One Day Long Time Happenings Devil Down And Blue Blame Dare Video Bother End Of The World Hollow Controversial Atrocities

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.”

Feels Writing Force Felt Down And Impulse Uninspired

Author:Zoe Kazan

“And out of all the movies, I don't know what it is, I'll always sit down and watch our 'Footloose'. I cry, I get excited, I cheer, my heart pounds. I really enjoy it.”

Knows Heart Enjoy Watches Cry My Heart Down And Excited Pounds Cheer Footloose

Author:Craig Brewer

“Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.”

Ifs Feels Actors Worst Mines Directors Down And Impulse Worst Things

Author:Cynthia Nixon

“I think that having comedy where people talk the way they really talk, when you talk with your friends and whatever, it's really, it's important. Or else you're making stuff that's a little bit watered down and irrelevant.”

People Thinking Way Littles Important Stuff Bits Comedy Little Bit Down And Irrelevant

Author:Seth Gordon

“I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.”

Writing Trying I Can Sometimes Hard Song Three Simple Down And Chords Messed Up

Author:Sondre Lerche

“I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks.”

Week Balls Down And Pounds Gigs Bucks Hendrix Retaliation

Author:Aynsley Dunbar

“Some people meet me sometimes and they sit down and talk to me for a while and ask me my name and say, 'Oh, you're the guy'.”

People Sometimes Guy Asks Names Down And Ask Me Talk To Me

Author:Leonard Little

“A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.”

Seeing Down And Sticks Fats Stomach Looking Down

Author:Norman Reilly Raine

“I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A.”

Needs Said Remember Games Stars Magic Down And Need You Johnson Atlanta All Stars

Author:Jayson Williams

“The thing you've got to watch for is going broke when you're old. Look at all the people that go down and out at the finish. The man who built my country place is blind now and penniless. That's terrible!”

People Men Looks Country Watches He Man Terrible Built Down And Blind Broke

Author:Pearl White

“I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.”

Want I Can Eye Left Views Down And What You Want Wander Looking Back

Book:Septimus (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

Source: Septimus (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

“The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.”

Down And Folly Fraud Gross Credulity

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Another way to put an end to self-rejection is ask yourself whether what you're telling yourself is what a friend would say, or what an enemy would. Friends are supportive. Enemies put us down and undermine our confidence. So if you say something that an enemy would say, stop. Answer back, 'I'm going to be supportive of myself. As a friend, what I have to say to myself is . . .' Then say something supportive.”

Ifs Way Ends Self Asks Answers Enemy Down And Rejection Being Yourself Supportive Another Way

Book:Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives

Source: Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives

“It is time the Arabs and the Jews sat down and settled this dispute in the true Christian spirit.”

Christian Spirit Christianity Down And Jew Sat Disputes

Author:Warren Austin

“The single most empowering thing we can do for ourselves is to transform fear. While fear contains tremendous power, it doesn't propel us forward and upward, but, rather, drags us down and chains us to the past. Freeing ourselves from fear is a loving intention because, as fear subsides, we are better able to access the soft, sweet power of our hearts, which naturally leads to loving ourselves and others more freely and completely.”

Heart Able Past Fear Can Do Sweet Down And Intention Access Chains Empowering Drag

Author:Sue Thoele

“I think that there's a strong crossover in that Janis, studying the visual arts, was learning how to break it down into details and see how to get the expression that we wanted. And her visual art is emotionally expressive as her singing was. And, I think, when she switched over to singing, she already knew that it was something serious that you broke into pieces so she developed the ability to break it down and learn little riffs that she could throw in here and there.”

Thinking Littles Art Wanted Strong Ability Break Study Pieces Serious Expression Singing Art Is Down And Details Broke Visuals Here And There Expressive Visual Art Crossover

Author:Laura Joplin

“Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows of the axe. Millions of trees have perished. The homes of the wild animals and birds have been desolated; the rivers are shrinking, and many beautiful landscapes are gone forever. And why? Because men are too lazy and stupid to stoop down and pick up their fuel from the ground.”

Source: The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…

“It is as important to monitor your mind constantly as it is to sit down and practice meditation.”

Mind Important Practice Meditation Buddhism Mindfulness Down And

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you think of others in a jealous way or if you become angry, immediately pause for a moment. It's going to pull you down and send negative energy. At that moment, pause and correct yourself.”

Ifs Thinking Way Moments Energy Buddhism Mindfulness Negative Down And Angry That Moment Jealous Pauses Negative Energy

Author:Frederick Lenz

“There comes a time in life when you just buckle down and have a good time with what you're doing. It doesn't matter much what you're doing. What matters is how you do it.”

Matter Buddhism Mindfulness Down And Good Times What Matters Having A Good Time There Comes A Time Buckles

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.”

Writing Persons Fall Wish Down And Sexuality Lists Homosexuality

Author:Stephen Fry

“While I was the mayor abortions in New York went down and adoptions went way up, because we worked on adoptions as an alternative, so that there'd be a real choice.”

Way Real Choices New York Down And Alternatives Abortion Adoption Mayors

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“If you sat down and you wrote a script, you may write something that's way beyond what you've ever seen me do, but if you thought of me to do it, I would be flattered to be asked to do something other than be wise.”

Ifs Way Writing May Would Be Wise Down And Scripts Sat Being Wise Flattered

Author:Morgan Freeman

“It's a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one's life accordingly.”

People Looks Wise Plans Risk Bases Down And Lifetime Very Wise

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Sometimes an idea from six years ago will come to me out of the blue. And maybe I haven't even seen the lyrics I wrote down, but I'll just have this physical memory of having written it, and in my mind I can see the piece of paper, and the words I wrote down, and then by muscle memory, I'll remember the chords that go along with it.”

Years Mind I Can Ideas Sometimes Remember Memories Pieces Written Havens Paper Six Years Ago Down And Blue Muscles Chords Muscle Memory

Author:Ryan Adams

“We're always going to be a society that's going to slow down and look at the wreck on the side if the road if there is one. We're always going to do that because it's still fascinating and it's human nature.”

Ifs Humans Looks Stills Sides Human Nature Down And Fascinating Slow Down Wrecks

Author:George Clooney

“The groves were God's first temple. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them,--ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.”

Men Firsts Sound Silence Down And Lays Spread Woods Thanks Temples Roof Solemn Lofty Framed Anthem Grove Vaults Supplication

Author:William C. Bryant

“Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!”

Ifs Men Giving Today Fall Energy Share Worship Down And Admiration Statues Falling Down Heathen

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?”

Mean Hands Time Watches Thirds Down And Slow Down Second Hand

Author:George Carlin

“The sun was down, And all the west was paved with sullen fire. I cried, Behold! the barren beach of hell At ebb of tide.”

Sun Hell Fire Down And West Beach Sunset Tides Cried Barren Sullen

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“This is about Americans getting off the sidelines and getting onto the playing field, .. This is about each and every one of us who have been blessed by the wealth of this country sharing that blessing by reaching down and reaching back and lifting up somebody in need. That's what America is all about. That's what being American is all about.”

Needs Has Beens Country America Wealth Fields Blessing Down And Blessed Reaching Lifting Playing Fields Sidelines Lifting Up Reaching Back

Author:Colin Powell

“One by one the objects are defined? It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf But now the stark dignity of entrance?Still, the profound change has come upon them: rooted, they grip down and begin to awaken.”

Stills Objects Dignity Down And Profound Clarity Defined Rooted Leafs Outlines Starks Entrances

Author:William Carlos Williams

“When I look at nature I feel as if I'll be able to paint it all, note it all down, and then you might as well forget it once you're working.”

Ifs Feels Wells Looks Might Able Nature Forget Down And Notes Paint Forget It

Book:Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

Source: Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters

“Paradoxically, I have found peace because I have always been dissatisfied. My moments of depression and despair turn out to be renewals, new beginnings. If I were once to settle down and be satisfied with the surface of life, with its divisions and its cliches, it would be time to call in the undertaker... So, then, this dissatisfaction which sometimes used to worry me and has certainly, I know, worried others, has helped me in fact to move freely and even gaily with the stream of life.”

Source: Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation: Easyread Large Bold Edition

“Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.”

People Goal Plans Written Down And Shooting Bullets Powder Unwritten

Author:Brian Tracy