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Down Quotes

Working the count, and watching things slip.

This page uses "down" across very different contexts — a baseball strategy built on working the count against a hitter's expectations, and a theory of absurdist humor rooted deep in the subconscious. For lighter, forward-looking sayings, try Downside quotes.

You can't be judgmental about babies. They are all have different needs. I was left with an enduring hatred of cheese because it was forced down me when I was young.

Quotes by Robert Winston

I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

Quotes by Robert Wyatt

The pro-American policy is the one that forces oil prices down. The way to do this is to flood the world market with liquid fuel from every source possible.

Quotes by Robert Zubrin

The EPA could act to open the transportation-fuel market to vigorous competition from natural gas as well as coal, biomass, and trash, by legalizing methanol. This would force oil prices down, expand the economy, and create millions of jobs.

Quotes by Robert Zubrin

There is no question but that the laws and principles which Solon laid down both foreshadowed and prepared the way for all republics of later ages, including our own.

Quotes by Robert W. Welch, Jr.

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

Quotes by Robert Scheer

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

Quotes by Robert Sean Leonard

Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following well, this is where I moved to uptown and I've been here for four years and this is 1965.

Quotes by Robert Rauschenberg

My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.

Quotes by Robert Ripley

Everyone applauds each other's success in Hollywood because they know how tough it is, but it really comes down fundamentally to the process.

Quotes by Robert Rodriguez

I was 24 when I was offered 'Doomwatch.' There was an option for a further series, and I turned it down. It is a wonderfully glorious thing to be unknowingly arrogant.

Quotes by Robert Powell

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Quotes by Robert Orben

I love chapbooks. They're in some ways the ideal form in which to publish and read poems. You can read 19 poems in a way you can't sit down and read 60 to 70 pages of poems.

Quotes by Robert Morgan

I think I'm pretty much down to earth, and I'm not really way, way out there.

Quotes by Robert Morse

People talk about the Patriot Act that was passed immediately in the wake of September 11. What the Patriot Act did was break down the walls between the various agencies.

Quotes by Robert Mueller

The problem started before World War I. The gold standard was working fairly well. But it broke down because of the war and what happened in the 1920s. And then the U.S. started to become so dominant in the world,...

Quotes by Robert Mundell

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

Quotes by Robert Moog

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is...

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these "Down" quotes cover?
A mix of subjects - a baseball strategy about working the count down before throwing to a hitter's power, thoughts on absurdity and humor coming from deep down in the subconscious, a joke about how band names never come from some grand story, and a blunt claim about family values.
Is there a quote about baseball strategy?
Yes, one quote explains how working the count down can set up a hitter to expect a pitch to their weakness, only to throw to their power instead - a tactic for getting important outs.
Is there a quote about humor and absurdity?
Yes, one quote calls absurdity a favorite brand of humor, tying it to surrealism buried "deep down inside" the subconscious. For more on humor's darker or unexpected turns, see the Downside page.
Is there a quote about family values declining?
Yes, one quote states plainly: "Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families." It doesn't elaborate further on what's changed. Browse the Downhill page for more on decline-related themes.
Is there a quote about naming a band?
Yes, one quote humorously points out that band names never come from some elaborate story, like climbing Mount Fuji and seeing a golden dove come down at the top - it's really just, as the quote tells it, a bunch of guys sitting around working it out. For more on setbacks and reality checks, check out the Downfall and Downgrade pages.

There's also a wry story about how bands never actually get their name from some dramatic mountaintop moment, alongside a blunter complaint about eroding family values. Continue with Downfall quotes or Downhill quotes.