Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
James M. Barrie

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.
Julie Christie

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.
Michael Phelps

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
Thomas Sowell

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
Thomas Sowell

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
Thomas Sowell

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
Jorge Luis Borges

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
Ted Turner

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
Les Brown

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
Les Brown

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off."
Stephen King

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Stephen King

Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
Quentin Crisp

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.
George Burns

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
George Burns

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
George Burns

Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
Jack Nicholson

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
Euripides

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.
Victor Hugo