For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane. – Haruki Murakami
In the end, that’s what it comes down to with Mitt Romney. He’s running as the non-Barack Obama. – Howie Carr
When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same. – Henry Winkler
I don’t live on a hill. I live down under a hill, in the bottom and I’ve got a lot of cars, yeah. – Hasil Adkins
Chris is the engineer down at the studio where we do these things. And he’s just such an integral part and he has such a marvelous ear. Also it turns out, we didn’t know, but he’s a pretty good fiddle player. – Guy Clark
I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air… So I trained myself to say ‘Holy Cow’ instead. – Harry Caray
If you want to be with someone who is 15 or 20 years younger, that’s fine, but I’ve found that if you haven’t been knocked down a little bit, then you’re probably not going to be hanging with me too much. – Grant Show
It is not cowardly, quite the contrary, to seek to meet the adversary and know his intentions. However, it is cowardly, shameful and treasonable to lay down arms. – Hassan II of Morocco
Towards sunset we had cleared down to the level of the 12th step, which was sufficient to expose a large part of the upper portion of a plastered and sealed doorway. – Howard Carter
Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them. – Gay Talese
In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity. – Henry Mayhew
Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches. – Henry Rollins
People win ‘Oscars’, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that’s partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. – Halle Berry
With messy food, or foods with a lot of sauce, you do ‘The Hunch.’ I learned it in Philly, watching the dudes in suits eat cheesesteaks. You keep your elbows above your hands because if you don’t, the grease runs down your sleeve to your elbow. – Guy Fieri
I fall down all the time because I’m such a klutz, but I have never broken a bone, and I don’t eat milk or cheese ever. I like tofu cheese and soymilk in my coffee and cereal. – Grace Slick
The whole thing of clothes is insane. You can spend a dollar on a jacket in a thrift store. And you can spend a thousand dollars on a jacket in a shop. And if you saw those two jackets walking down the street, you probably wouldn’t know which was which. – Helen Mirren
If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won’t eat as much. – Guy Fieri
We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts. – Harold MacMillan
The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. – Huey Newton
The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down. – Helen Hunt Jackson
I think it’s more interesting to throw people into a story and let them catch up instead of explaining and feeling like you have to slow down for them. I think audiences, for the most part, they don’t want to be ahead of you. – Grant Heslov
Without growth we can’t pay down our debt, and without growth there’s no money for welfare. – Helle Thorning-Schmidt
We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course. – Henry Mayhew
My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub. – Grover Norquist
My agent knows what I’m looking for. And I’m also looking for a new agent, too, so I’m putting it out there. Again, I’m not going to turn down every role, because there is no bad role, really. It’s all what you bring to the role, but that traditional, ‘Stand here and open a rope,’ I’m not doing it. – Grizz Chapman
I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson’s poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. – Gordon Getty
I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts. – Harold MacMillan
You can look at what I did in the Senate. I did introduce legislation to rein in compensation. I looked at ways that the shareholders would have more control over what was going on in that arena. And specifically said to Wall Street, that what they were doing in the mortgage market was bringing our country down. – Hillary Clinton
