Downby Quotes & Sayings

Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice. — Julie Andrews Edwards

The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run downby much greater beasts than themselves; and the true British fox-hunter is most undoubtedly a species appropriated and peculiar to this country, which no other part of the globe produces. — Lord Chesterfield

I guess I didn't have it so bad.Maybe everybody didn't love me,but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated,either.
I was good in a fight.So people left me alone.
i was almost invisible.i think i liked it that way.
And then Dante came along. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Be a damn fire eater now. He'd seen it in the war work the same way. More of a change than any loss of virginity. Fear gone like an operation. Something else grew in its place. Main thing a man had. Made him into a man. Women knew it too. No bloody fear. — Ernest Hemingway,

Afghanistan changed him, but Iraq sculpted him. — Melissa Seligman

The body is more than the temple of the soul. It's the grounded celebration of its rapture. — S. Kelley Harrell

Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost. — Willard Van Orman Quine

The fight isn't over until you win it ... That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man thinks. — Robin Hobb

First time I got punched in the face, I was like, 'Oh no!' but then I was like, 'This is a story. — Troy Barnes

It's cold in Toronto but I like where I'm living. — Emily St. John Mandel

We must be before we can do, and we can do only to the extent which we are, and what we are depends upon what we think. — Charles F. Haanel

I think it's perfectly OK to exploit the moon. Largely for two reasons: there's no life there, and it is close enough and rich enough in resources to be economically useful to Earth. In the final analysis, everything we do in space, if it does not help the people of Earth, all the people, it's not going to happen. — Ben Bova

It's unbelievable really. For something that started off as a hobby, I ended up getting paid for doing it. — Ricky Hatton

The same words come from each mouth differently. — Jane Hirshfield