- 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
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.
- Broken
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- Nov 07, 2020
During normal cell metabolism, RNA is constantly being made and broken down. The purine and pyrimidine residues are reused by several salvage pathways to make more genetic material. Purine is salvaged in the form of the corresponding nucleotide, whereas pyrimidine is salvaged as the nucleoside.
- Guilt
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions - pulls generation after generation heavily as lead down, down, down.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deep down I knew that if Hell existed, it was a real place full of ruthless, venal people, like the commodity pits at the Chicago Board of Trade, Disney World, or oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court.
- Fire
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one image that's been causing a lot of discussion is one image that I shot of a man falling head-first from the building, before the buildings fell down. He was trapped in the fire, and decided to jump and take his own life, rather than being burned.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would do so only if all traditional publishers had turned them down.
- Offered
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been offered a peerage already, and turned it down.
- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.
- Nov 07, 2020
You reach the top of the heap, but it's a circle, and you slip on the down side, maybe for years. You get scared.
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- Nov 07, 2020