“I have a lyric journal that I write in a lot. When I’m going to play, I just sit down and have my books with me and my notes and tapes and whatever I need to refer to. I just play and try different things. It’s a kind of discipline.” NeedsWritingTryingKindBookDifferentPlayDisciplineDown AndNotesDifferent ThingsTapeJournal Author:Amy Ray
“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.” IfsWayLooksArtIdeasDifferentWholeSongCreatingArt IsDown AndChaosReactionsDifferent WaysUpside DownTornadoesThings Upside Down Author:Marilyn Manson
“You have to get something down, and then find ways of working in complexity and different layers of meaning... My first drafts are usually the ravings of a delusional fantasist.” WayFirstsDifferentDown AndComplexityLayersDelusional Author:Peter Wolf
“The trouble is, once you say something about a source, then you've pegged it down, and so now I'm reluctant to say anything. If I say I developed 50 different shapes from Mississippian tumuli, that doesn't mean they're copies of tumuli - I'm not ripping off those shapes.” IfsMeanDifferentTroubleSourceShapesDown AndCopiesSay AnythingReluctantCopying Author:Michael Heizer
“It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber? Guitar manufacturer? Writer .... yeah, writer. I've always loved writing, from a very early age--I guess I was writing my first stories when I was still in single digits. It progressed, and the love of writing grew in my mind and is still growing. Doing it full-time, there are different stresses and tensions, and the business side of it comes to the fore sometimes. But I still love it, and I'm always thankful that I can do what I do and make a living from it.” ThinkingWritingMindFirstsStillsI CanDifferentSometimesStoriesAgeSidesCan DoCasesGrowingGrewSittingStressDown AndYeahGuitarTensionPilotsAirlineSitting DownPlumberThinking RightAirline Pilots Author:Tim Lebbon
“Selling one's book to Hollywood is rather like selling someone your house. After it's sold, it isn't yours anymore. They can paint it a different color, tear it down and build something new, or do anything they want.” WantBookDifferentHouseTearsColorHollywoodDown AndPaintSellingSomething NewDifferent Colors Author:Rick Riordan
“When I was younger, I was just always looking for - you're always looking for this hot, so hot, like super-hot girl. And then, as I've gotten older, different things are really important to me, like just honesty. Being able to sit down and have a conversation.” ImportantDifferentAbleGirlHonestyConversationHotDown AndDifferent ThingsHot Girl Author:Blake Griffin
“It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.” WritingDifferentSongEasyBoysDown AndPopsHonestlyDifferent ThingsPop Song Author:Avril Lavigne
“I'm always sitting down and talking to people that are doing independent features. It depends on the project and the quotient of the people that are involved. There are a lot of different reasons [to do something], like a particular script that resonates with me, in a particular way. It may not so much even be about the part, but what the script has to say.” PeopleWayMayDifferentReasonTalkingParticularDependsInvolvedProjectsSittingDown AndIndependentScriptsFeaturesSitting Down Author:Jimmy Smits
“I never sat down and wrote, but what I do is kind of act as a dramaturge for the piece. I am sitting with the writers. I'm discussing ideas with the writers and concepts. We're debating and having a dialectic where we are taking a lot of different ideas and trying to synthesize them into the right idea. I'm very much a part of that process. That's my job as the director.” TryingKindIdeasDifferentJobsProcessPiecesDirectorsSittingConceptsDown AndSatDiscussingDialecticsDifferent IdeasRight Ideas Author:Larry Charles
“Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.” IfsPersonsDifferentCountryPoliticalBeliefEnjoyCompanyMy FriendsDown AndDinnerRidiculousFunny ThingsPolitical Beliefs Author:Patricia Heaton
“My music is more like ghetto gospel; there's a message in my words, so people listen. Sometimes you might here different things; it depends on how you feel. You might feel down, and I might be the cat in the same sentence saying, "You need to get up and do your thing." And then I could be the same cat, when you at the top of your game, telling you, "It feel good, don't it?" but with the same words.” PeopleNeedsFeelsDifferentSometimesMightGamesDependsMessagesMusic IsCatDown AndSentencesFeel GoodGet UpDifferent ThingsGhettoHow You Feel Author:Young Jeezy
“It's fun to sit down and do a few drawings, but when you have to sit down and do hundreds of drawings whose value only depends on getting to the end of the chain, then you've created a different kind of monster.” KindDifferentEndsValuesFunDependsDown AndDrawingMonstersChainsDifferent Kinds Author:Gary Panter
“I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head.” MindDifferentFindingsPagesSittingDown AndDrawingTake MeSitting DownDifferent Directions Author:David Finch
“If you're driving your car and someone winds the window down and gives you the finger and calls you an asshole, instead of giving him the finger back and calling him an asshole back, you just pull a funny face, and he doesn't know how to react to that, because you're using different rules.” IfsKnowsGivingDifferentFacesKnow HowCarWindCallingWindowDown AndFingersDrivingFunny Face Author:Steve Coogan
“When I auditioned actors I never make them act. I choose a long symphony, then I tell them to sit down and I play the symphony for them. Then I sit and I look at them. I always pick a piece of music that has up and downs, very dramatic parts, very quiet parts and really sensitive parts so that it can produce different emotions.” LooksLongDifferentPlayActorsEmotionPiecesProduceQuietPicksDown AndSensitiveDramaticSymphonyUps & DownsDifferent Emotions Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“I honestly never sat down and said "OK, here's my style," because my whole thing was knowing everyone's style. Everything I've ever written has bits and pieces of everything I've ever heard. Any rapper that tells you different is a liar.” SaidDifferentWholeBitsKnowingPiecesWrittenHeardStyleDown AndHonestlySatLiarsRapperBits And Pieces Author:Bun B
“TV is a different animal. It's not a club set. As you said, you do short sets on TV - about five minutes. So you have to get that rhythm down and also be aware of the camera so you're connecting with the viewers at home as well as the studio audience. It's a different muscle to develop.” WellsSaidDifferentHomeAnimalAudienceFiveMinutesTvsDown AndCamerasClubsStudiosRhythmMusclesViewersConnectingFive MinutesDifferent Animals Author:Ted Alexandro
“I'll write down and catalogue all the different devices that are Americana to me, and I try to have a historic depth and breadth and also the things that we do in our time, the type of vamps and chants, things that are available to us.” WritingTryingDifferentTypeDown AndDepthAvailableOur TimeDevicesHistoricBreadthCataloguesAmericanaVamp Author:Wynton Marsalis
“When I got into all the grunge stuff, I really liked Hole. I actually saw them in concert when I was a sophomore in high school. It was kind of rare to see a successful female rocker get down and dirty with the guys. And Courtney Love did. It was fun to be a fan of something different.” KindDifferentSchoolGuyFunStuffSuccessfulSawsFansHigh SchoolFemaleDown AndHolesDirtyConcertsRockersSophomoreGrungeCourtney Author:Carrie Underwood
“We have had a good working relationship. He has got a tough job. We had different ideas sometimes and we got on pretty well. I have challenged him and he has challenged me. His form has been up and down and that can be tough. I suppose we've been lucky. Sourav and I complement each other. We are two different personalities. He is softer than me. I probably spoke my mind in the change rooms in a rougher way than him. Sourav and I formed an odd couple but it seems to have worked.” WayMindWellsHas BeensTwoIdeasDifferentSometimesSeemsJobsFormRoomsPersonalityCoupleLuckyToughDown AndOddSpokesGood WorkUp And DownComplementDifferent IdeasOdd Couple Author:John Wright
“If man had written the Gospels - say Shakespeare or Eugene O'Neill - the story of the gospel would have been drastically different. They would have placed the prince in halls and palaces and had him walking among the great. They would have had him surrounded by the important and significant of the time. Potentates and kings would have been His companions. But how sweetly common was the real God-man; though He had inhabited all eternity, He had come down and was subject to the rising and the setting of the sun.” IfsMenHas BeensImportantDifferentRealStoriesCommonSunWrittenSubjectsKingsWalkingEternityDown AndSignificantSettingSettingsRisingCompanionHallsPalacesEugene O Neill Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“It's a weird partnership. For me and Patrick, if you've met him, we're not very much alike. But we bring such different tools to the table. He doesn't think like me. I don't think like him. He thinks like an editor. He thinks like a director. He thinks completely outside of the box when it comes to writing and so because of that he leads me down roads that I would've never gone down. And he sucks at grammar. So together we're perfect.” IfsThinkingWritingDifferentTogetherPerfectGoneMetsDirectorsToolsDown AndTablesBoxesLike MeEditorsPartnershipGrammarDown The RoadLeading Me Author:Todd Farmer
“We kinda hated sitcoms when we sat down and talked about this. We wanted to do something that was in the sitcom vain but totally different.” DifferentWantedDown AndVainHatedSatSitcom Author:Christopher Titus
“I don't just sit down and write all day, or the songs would be weird or stupid. They would be about different stupid thoughts that I go through.” WritingDifferentWould BeSongStupidDown And Author:Syleena Johnson
“Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn't perfect at predicting the future. Based on today's stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down and things may be different tomorrow but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today.” MayDifferentMomentsTodayPerfectTeamTomorrowReflectionDown AndApplesUp And DownPredictingPredicting The FutureDell Author:Steve Jobs
“For years, people always say, "Ah, what about the dunk. It's still two points." But it energizes a team. If you're down and you get a monster dunk, everybody gets psyched. "Oh yeah, let's go, let's go." So it was dying down a little bit and guys, I think, they took it upon themselves. They got energy on it and started trying different stuff.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingYearsLittlesStillsTwoDifferentGuyEnergyStuffBitsTeamDyingLittle BitDown AndYeahMonsters Author:Darryl Dawkins
“I think if we really break it down and talk about post-traumatic stress disorder, it`s very different than the way Sarah Palin explained it.” IfsThinkingWayDifferentBreakStressDown AndPostsDisorderPalinPost Traumatic Stress Disorder Author:Jon Soltz
“I suspect that relatively few people will sit down and read 1250 pages [ of The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures.] all the way through from cover to cover. There may be some, but not everybody. But there are many, many, many different Christian, theological, pastoral, specialisms that are covered by one section or another of the book and this will become, therefore, a resource volume for many people.” PeopleWayMayBookDifferentChristianAuthorityPagesResourcesDown AndEndureScriptureSuspectsCoveredVolumeSectionsTheological Author:D. A. Carson
“Bring different groups together internally, send them out to visit other companies, or bring in interesting speeches. Show that you love learning by having people on staff whose job it is to explore without any near-term metrics. Publicly shut a project down and talk about what a great job a team did because they learned so much. And so on.” PeopleDifferentShowsTogetherJobsTermInterestingCompanyGroupsTeamSpeechProjectsDown AndStaffGreat JobMetrics Author:Scott D. Anthony
“Yoga stimulates different nerves in your body, especially the Vagus nerve that carries information from the brain to most of the body's major organs, slows everything down and allows self-regulation. It's the nerve that is associated with the parasympathetic system and emotions like love, joy and compassion.” DifferentSelfBodyJoyEmotionBrainCompassionInformationMajorsYogaDown AndYour BodyCarrieNervesOrgansRegulationLike LoveSelf Regulation Author:Deepak Chopra
“I like nudging readers into a slightly different perspective, but in a sly way - I want to be the writer who slips a stiletto in and out, to make so swift and clean a cut, it's not until a chapter ends that the reader looks down and sees she's bleeding and asks what happened.” WayWantLooksDifferentEndsAsksCuttingHappenedPerspectiveReaderDown AndCleanSlipsChaptersBleedingDifferent PerspectiveSlyStilettos Author:Kathryn Harrison
“Cookbooks have all become baroque and very predictable. I'm looking for something different. A lot of chefs' cookbooks are food as it's done in the restaurants, but they are dumbed down, and I hate it when they dumb them down.” DifferentDoneHateI HateDown AndDumbRestaurantsChefPredictableCookbookBaroque Author:Mario Batali
“I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out.” FeelsWritingDifferentFeetSittingDown AndSitting Down Author:Amy Sedaris
“There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships or missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time. We've never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.” IfsWayDifferentWarLeftNationsParticularPlanetsAmountAreasDestructionPressureDown AndShipsNosesDifferent WaysCaptureDozenCatastropheMissilesDeliveringSelectiveWholesaleLeft Handed Author:Robert A. Heinlein
“I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.” IfsDifferentAirDown AndTalesStorytellingUp And DownJuggling Book:Haroun and the Sea of Stories Source: Haroun and the Sea of Stories
“A typical weeknight when he was home like this: 1. Sit down and try to do homework. 2. Get interrupted by Jeffrey: “Please play with me!” 3. Ignore brother, try to do homework. 4. Get interrupted by Jeffrey: “Come ON, Steven! I’m BORED!” 5. Beg Jeffrey for five minutes of peace. 6. Get begged for five minutes of play: “Steven, you never, ever play with me—ever!” 7. Move entire homework operations center to different room. 8. Repeat steps #1-7 as directed by small drugged maniac.” TryingDifferentPlayHomeMovingRoomsStepsFiveMinutesBrotherPleaseDown AndBoredOperationsRepeatsTypicalFive MinutesHomeworkInterruptedManiacs Book:Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie Source: Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
“They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.” PeopleTwoDifferentDoneLanguageTalkingSunDown AndLeavingWarmTwilightDewPeople TalkingDifferent LanguagesChilly Book:Gone with the wind Source: Gone with the wind
“It's different," you said. "You've made, Min, everything different for me. Everything's like coffee you made me try, better than I ever - or the places I didn't even know were right on the street, you know? I'm like this thing I saw when I was little, where a kid hears a noise under his bed and there's a ladder there that's never been there before, and he climbs down and, it's for kids I know, but this song starts playing..." Your eyes were traveling in the treey light.” KnowsTryingLittlesMadeSaidDifferentLightEyeKidsSongSawsStreetsBedDown AndCoffeeNoiseClimbsLadders Author:Daniel Handler
“The sun shines down, and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting the same sun. Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are, we will see ourselves in all people.” PeopleKnowsDifferentWisdomWaterSunThousandReflectionYogaDown AndFilledShiningPotReflectingYoga InspirationSun ShinesInspirational Yoga Author:Mata Amritanandamayi
“I dyed my hair about 42 different colours, and kids can be pretty judgmental about people who are different. But instead of breaking down and conforming, I stood firm. That is also probably why I was unhappy.” PeopleDifferentKidsHairDown AndUnhappyFirmColourConformBreaking DownJudgmentalDifferent Colours Author:Christina Hendricks