Downslide Thesaurus Quotes & Sayings

We're all diamonds in the rough until God gets His hands on us".

~R. Alan Woods [1984] — R. Alan Woods

There are more people in the world who make things than there are people who think of things to make. — Syd Mead

I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever! — Jesse Ventura

One of the big challenges now is to figure out just how many viruses there really are in the human genome. So far the estimate is 8.3% of our genome is virus, but it actually could be a lot higher. — Carl Zimmer

Suppose we think while we talk or write
I mean, as we normally do
we shall not in general say that we think quicker than we talk, but the thought seems not to be separate from the expression. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

My mother lives in Moscow, and I would like to visit her. Now she always has to travel to Finland or a Baltic country to meet me. But I have to expect that my papers would be confiscated in Moscow immediately, and that they would harass my family. I can still have more impact in the West with my books and lectures. — Garry Kasparov

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no desire of your own. — Napoleon Hill

Watson is a cheap, efficient little sod of a literary device. Holmes doesn't need him to solve crimes any more than he needs a ten-stone ankle weight. The audience, Arthur. The audience needs Watson as an intermediary, so that Holmes's thoughts might be forever kept just out of reach. If you told stories from Holmes's perspective, everyone would know what the bleeding genius was thinking the whole time. They'd have the culprit fingered on page one. — Graham Moore

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word. — Holly Near

Every important machine's got to have a big red button. — Joseph DeRisi

It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue. — H.L. Mencken