When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
Bob Hope

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
Lance Armstrong

Well, when you come down to it, I don't see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.
Colin Powell

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
Colin Powell

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

Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.
Wilson Mizner

Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down.
Wilson Mizner

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.
Robert Kennedy

My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
T. S. Eliot

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George Orwell

What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
Jack LaLanne

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.
Dennis Miller

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .
Woody Allen

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.
Woody Allen

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Woody Allen

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
Jackie Kennedy