- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Circulation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before there was an Internet, before there was an A.O.L., the circulation of newspapers was going down.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have like 250 letters that I have to whittle it down to 150. Only then do you have the whole overview of a book. When it was finally edited, at least my take was, everybody's lying. You know?
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to remind the people who put down East Coast surfing that Kelly Slater is from Florida.
- Calorie
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- Nov 07, 2020
The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. That leads to weakness, sluggishness, slow times. In girls, it can also result in cessation of menstrual periods, which in turn leads to loss of bone density and frequent stress fractures.
- Fraught
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it skulking at shoelace level. A rock, a root, an errant pine cone. Wham, and you're down, choking in dust and picking pebbles from wounds in your forearms and knees.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
It doesn't matter if gun violence is down. We need to get guns and bullets and automatic weapons off the streets.
- Nov 07, 2020
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the people I know, their marriages went down the drain, like mine - something I am not proud of.
- Nov 07, 2020
If something comes up I might write about it, but without an outlet the whole thing winds down.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I especially enjoyed some of the old hairstyles, with my hair down to my shoulders and a beard. And Henley's nickname used to be 'Furry Basketball' because he had that fro. It was fun to just look at what was going on in that era and how we presented ourselves on stage.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020