Weekend Words: Down
This week: the Chinese stock market fell way down, the New York Stock Exchange computer systems went down for nearly four hours, and South Carolina took down the Confederate flag.
This week: the Chinese stock market fell way down, the New York Stock Exchange computer systems went down for nearly four hours, and South Carolina took down the Confederate flag.
If, when the chips are down, the worlds most powerful nation, the United States of America, acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism and anarchy will threaten free nations and free institutions throughout the world.
—Richard Milhous Nixon
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
—May Sarton
That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.
—Meredith Monk
Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me; he just can’t be found.
—Eminem
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
—Joan Didion
You know you’re getting old when you stop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you’re down there.
—George Burns
Down in Denver, down in Denver
All I ever did was die.
—Jack Kerouac, letter to Allen Ginsberg
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
—Winston Churchill
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
—Ernest Hemingway
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.
—William S. Burroughs
