Quotes Tagged "down"

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.

The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

Go higher and higher, until it becomes impossible to bring you down, I wanna use a microscope to locate you, don't even dream of coming down.

To shut down a project, advancing scientific knowledge on the biological toxicity of that project to its workers is always a good starting point.

The simplest way to shut down a known biologically toxic facility is to trawl the internet for scientific papers that prove the toxicity.

Ninety percent of my material is made on stage, but I feel like you're missing something by abandoning sitting down to write entirely.