Quotes about downer (16 Quotes)


    One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

    Some people asked me if it was going to be a downer to come back and play on a college team after playing on a world championship team, and I don't think they understand what it is like to play here.

    In the streets of New York between seven and nine in the morning you will see the slow procession of dog and downer proceeding from street to tree to hydrant to trash basket. They are apartment dogs. They are taken out twice a day, and, while it is a cliche, it is truly amazing how owner and dog resemble each other. They grow to walk alike and have the same set of head.

    We have been playing Russian roulette with our food supply for years by allowing these downer animals into the food chain, ... This much-needed legislation will codify a temporary administrative ban on the processing of downer cattle and it will expand the ban on the processing of other downer livestock. Animals too sick or injured to walk are a higher risk for mad cow disease, E. coli and salmonella, and they suffer terribly when they're dragged to slaughter.

    It would be a shame, no doubt about it. I just love that place. It's an unbelievable golf course. ... I think we would have to respect what the members want, but it would be a downer for me.


    I don't know if that result will give us an advantage or not. You can look at it two ways. They might be on a downer and maybe the long journey back home will have affected them and they could be a wee bit less focused than they normally would be for the game. But they could just as easily be fired up - after a heavy defeat you often want to get back to winning as soon as possible.

    There'll be moments when I'm out in the prison yard, chatting with the cast and the crew, getting ready to shoot a scene. And then I'll remember if I were actually an inmate, I'd only be out there an hour. The other 23 hours of the day, I'd be in my cell. It's kind of a downer.

    We had a miserable first year (6-10 in 2004), and that's real hard on you. So you go in the second year knowing you've got to make something happen. Being able to get 10 wins, that helps a lot. It gives the whole organization confidence. If we hadn't gotten into the playoffs, it would've been a real downer. Getting in the playoffs was somewhat of a turning point for us.

    We went through most of the year on a downer and we sure didn't want to end on this note. I definitely thought we had a shot. Unlike the other games we showed the urgency off the hop but strangely we let down in the end when we usually smell blood and go for it.

    I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.


    Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.




    You're talking about two guys who sell almost 70 percent of the souvenirs in the sport. To have them out of the picture was a real downer. Things like that happen once in a while, but when NASCAR started talking about the Chase, I don't think any of us ever thought the two most popular guys weren't going to make it.



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