Down Quotes

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow […] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes

I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‘Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.’

Doom is a classic supervillain, akin to the Phantom of the Opera. It’s not about revenge so much as, like.

I’m terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.

Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.