Economy's got to get moving, we've got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.
We can skip through a lot of the stuff people might ask about the writing of the book, and so their comments always start well, well down into the nitty-gritty.
Oklahoma Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain.
There are times when you're tired and times when you don't believe in yourself. That's when you have to stick it out and draw on the confidence that you have deep down beneath all the doubts and worries.
No matter how hard people try break you down, or whoever tries to stomp on you. You will always have the same value. No one can change you.
I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.
Will you come down and kiss me good night?
Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.
Let not one look of Fortune cast you down; she were not Fortune if she did not frown.
All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that have, at their core, the notion that equality is something the privileged group "gives" to those not so privileged - a reaching down, as it were.
The universe is merely a fleeting idea in God's mind -- a pretty uncomfortable thought, particularly if you've just made a down payment on a house.
It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job.
Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written.
So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.
When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.
All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.
I know we're termites. But if all the termites got together, the house would fall down.
As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?