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• I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.

  Isambard Kingdom Brunel

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Today, Tomorrow, Down

• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Lots, Bus, Ride, Want, Down, Will, Take, Someone, Break

• After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

  George Ade

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Publishers, Posterity, Numerous, Decided, Write, After, Had, Down, Turned, Being, Writing

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

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Down, Ever

• Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

  Henry Rollins

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trenches, Down

• Wherever you will go, I will let you down, But this lullaby goes on.

  Sarah Dessen

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Down

• Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

  Burton Richter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Down, Free

• I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

  Burl Ives

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Change, Down, Road

• You don’t know a ladder has splinters until you slide down it.

  Bum Phillips

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Down, Ladder
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  There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Down, Nothing, Writing

• Everyone thinks because you’re from the south you know everyone down there, but it’s not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.

  Buddy Guy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Down, Everyone
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  Some people are selfish… They cheat, they stab, and will try to bring you down. Never let them get you down. Instead use them as steps to reach your Aim!

  Venkat Desireddy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Down, Instead
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  No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Down, Hurt

• Being a reporter and chasing down an assignment isn’t an easy thing to do, especially when you’re dealing with athletes that are so focused and trying to get their little game plan together to perform under adverse conditions… it’s tough.

  Junior Seau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Game, Together, Down

• I do change the odd lightbulb, and I fix the Internet when it goes down, because it’s something I am really good at.

  Seal

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Change, Down

• Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

  Bridget Moynahan

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Time, Down

• It really came down to deciding between baseball and soccer. Soccer won out because I enjoyed it more.

  Brian Robert McBride

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Baseball, Down

• I think they can co-exist. You don’t have to put one down for another. I’ve been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won’t take away from the music.

  Brian McKnight

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Down

• German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it’s not real – but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

  Brian Lumley

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real, Down

• I’m not going to turn down an Oscar, but I’m not strategizing for one.

  Brett Ratner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Turn, Down