Top 100 Black Down Quotes

#1. I made up my mind that I was going to be just like Elvis. It never occurred to me that Elvis was a man. I just wanted to be him. He had a huge impact on me, right down to that black leather jumpsuit he wore on the '68 Comeback Special.

Suzi Quatro

Black Down Quotes #4008
#2. The black went down like a felled tree, gushing blood,

Robert E. Howard

Black Down Quotes #14249
#3. I bear a hell within me," Black Tom growled. "And finding myself unsympathized with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.

Victor LaValle

Black Down Quotes #19225
#4. When Minutemen leader Jim Gilchrist and his black colleague Marvin Stewart were invited by the College Republicans to speak at Columbia last year, the tolerant, free-speech-loving Columbia students violently attacked them, shutting down the speech.

Ann Coulter

Black Down Quotes #20992
#5. God abhors a naked singularity because that's when things stop making sense. Predictability breaks down. That's why the universe takes all its dirty little secrets and hides them in the centre of a black hole.

Gavin G. Smith

Black Down Quotes #23808
#6. The Darkness of the black night is commencing over the white wobbling flowers at the bay of the stream whose water is sparkling and is running down from those earthly mountains to surrender into your arms full of happiness and love ...
It cherishes your existence and so do i do ...

AashiQi

Black Down Quotes #32463
#7. His gaze met hers. It was crazy. Dressed down in worn blue jeans and a black shirt, he was the most beautiful man she'd ever seen.
And the moment was sort of perfect.
Even with the deer head staring over his shoulder like a total creeper.

J. Lynn

Black Down Quotes #43242
#8. There's a McDonald's down the street. We'll get you a Happy Meal. Maybe that'll make you happier.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Black Down Quotes #44300
#9. At first, I didn't like coming down to Los Angeles at all. It's like, everything's black and white compared to where I live out in the middle of nowhere. There's, like, 400 people in my town!

Max Thieriot

Black Down Quotes #62193
#10. The sight of so many guns, mostly deer rifles and duck guns but with a smattering of black rifles and riot shotguns, made him glad that this was going down in a rural area where people still had their heads screwed on right about personal defense.

Larry Correia

Black Down Quotes #63252
#11. The way to live life, is to constantly look down upon others, but never say it.

Robert Black

Black Down Quotes #65219
#12. So I pushed the bitterness down, into the black pit of my stomach along with my regret and my grief and my fear, and I said, I'm fine. May i go now?

R. J. Anderson

Black Down Quotes #66155
#13. Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.

The Notorious B.I.G.

Black Down Quotes #71699
#14. I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text of the manuscript is color-coded the same way. The last thing I do before submitting the manuscript is turn all those colors back to black.

Neal Shusterman

Black Down Quotes #74592
#15. As a grown woman, I saw the first black president reach down a hand and touch the face of a child like I once was, lifting his eyes toward a better future. But I have never, ever, in all my years seen a leader so committed to delivering that better future to America's children as Hillary Clinton.

Donna Brazile

Black Down Quotes #88659
#16. There are two Newman's laws. The first one is "It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down." The second is "Just when things look darkest, they go black.

Paul Newman

Black Down Quotes #89225
#17. There should be a law that you can't shut down the government - that you don't have that power.

Lewis Black

Black Down Quotes #94243
#18. "Something on a line, it's discord and rhyme - whatever, whatever, la la la - Mouth is alive, all running inside, and I'm hungry like the -" Warmth spread down my neck.
"It's actually,'I howl and I whine. I'm after you,' and not blah or whatever.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Black Down Quotes #98600
#19. The dark swallowed him, but his dragging footsteps could be heard a long time after he had gone, footsteps along the road; and a car came by on the highway, and its lights showed the ragged man shuffling along the road, his head hanging down and his hands in the black coat pockets.

John Steinbeck

Black Down Quotes #99998
#20. I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and they're not used to people talking that fast.

Lewis Black

Black Down Quotes #100093
#21. It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited.

Tupac Shakur

Black Down Quotes #101954
#22. They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh.

Mike Epps

Black Down Quotes #126062
#23. It was a figure of a whale, with a white triangle that was supposed to be its spray. The spray moved up and down above the blowhole. On top of the spray sat a black-haired woman.

Paul Fleischman

Black Down Quotes #127647
#24. The guy is a total idiot. Forget him," Luke said, and wiped the lone tear that was running down her cheek. "I promise I won't ever do that to you."
"Please don't make promises if you can't keep them," she said, feeling her guard going up a little.
"I always keep my promises.

Kat Green

Black Down Quotes #131443
#25. I pray for bravery and guts, for honesty and discernment. I know you have a lot to lose - we all do when we lay down our certainties and our black-and-white thinking.

Sarah Bessey

Black Down Quotes #134876
#26. Do you know what happens when a star dies ... It doesn't just disappear. It turns into this black hole, this giant energy-sucking mass that doesn't just collapse in on itself; it takes away any light that comes close down with it.

GLEE CAST

Black Down Quotes #149077
#27. Demond's family history wasn't so different from my own, did that mean we were living the same story over and over again, down through the generations? That the young and Black had always been dying, until all that was left were children and the few old, as in war?

Jesmyn Ward

Black Down Quotes #149165
#28. Victor was sinking, straight through his skin and the bed and the floor, right down into black.

V.E Schwab

Black Down Quotes #152144
#29. I grew up watching old black and white movies where Marlene Dietrich or Jean Harlow would go walking down some cobblestone street in ripped stockings and head into some smoky boite and sing for a pathetic living. That's so what I wanted to be.

Ellen Greene

Black Down Quotes #162578
#30. Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop the slave masters from hurting their families. Daddy also said there's nothing more dangerous than when that rage is activated.

Angie Thomas

Black Down Quotes #176321
#31. She kind a laugh and it hurts my heart. Because everbody care. Black, white, deep down we all do.

Kathryn Stockett

Black Down Quotes #176708
#32. She came out of sleep like a thunderclap - waking from dreams so deep and dark that she couldn't remember anything but dirt and hands pulling her down into graves with cities inside them.

Holly Black

Black Down Quotes #181444
#33. I don't buy the 'at 60 it's great to have kids' thing. I don't buy the line that has been thrown down - 'You can have a kid at any time.' That doesn't mean you should.

Lewis Black

Black Down Quotes #186198
#34. Girl, you're free, can't you see that? You've got your child, you've got your family down here who love you, you've got your farm. You don't have to ask for anything. You know how few women in this world get to say that, black or white?

Natalie Baszile

Black Down Quotes #198224
#35. It's swallowing down the memories that turn the world so black.

Jennie Fields

Black Down Quotes #199485
#36. When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.

Jack Black

Black Down Quotes #204810
#37. Two arguing geeks were stoppable. Three arguing geeks created an infinite argument vortex of doom that sucked time down like a black hole.

Delphine Dryden

Black Down Quotes #205876
#38. Puss hopped down from the couch and rummaged in Mark's closet until he found a black leather belt. This he looped along his shoulder, around his waist, and then clasped together. I'm off to make war, so that you may have love.

Zechariah Barrett

Black Down Quotes #208216
#39. Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.

Paul Kane

Black Down Quotes #220619
#40. Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to me.

Lena Dunham

Black Down Quotes #225404
#41. Hawk's belly sunk hollow, black and empty, much like his chest that corroded desire into something nasty and wrong. Hawk paced until his knees creaked, glaring down at his phone like he could reach through and touch what he was forbidden to want.

V. Theia

Black Down Quotes #227085
#42. I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

Robert Frost

Black Down Quotes #230463
#43. When I was little, I used to think that the sky at night was a big, black blanket that separated heaven from earth, and the stars were a whole bunch of little pin holes that the angels poked in the blanket so they could look down on us.

Robin Jones Gunn

Black Down Quotes #243502
#44. After using a paint chart from a local DIY superstore to identify the skin tone of his penis as midnight chocolate, Miriam stayed down on one knee and offered him the citizenship he had always wanted and the middle-aged white woman he would grudgingly accept.

David F. Porteous

Black Down Quotes #249303
#45. A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.

T. S. Eliot

Black Down Quotes #251844
#46. In America now every romantic comedy is interpreted politically. I can remember when I was promoting Black Hawk Down we were all being asked what it said about September 11th. Well, it was shot before that happened, so, nothing.

Eric Bana

Black Down Quotes #253196
#47. I feel like I am wlaking down into a porn movie" V mutteres as they took the steps with care.
"Wouldn't that require more black candles for you", Zsadist cracked ...

J.R. Ward

Black Down Quotes #281229
#48. Did you think you could stop me? I'll burn the world down to save her.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Black Down Quotes #282070
#49. [Voicing a cartoon] feels like going down a mysterious but joyful black hole. Once you relax for 15 or 20 minutes, and really go, "I don't care if I look like an ass," it's really fun to see what happens. You know that nothing is being visually judged.

Jim Parsons

Black Down Quotes #287802
#50. I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could - if that were your sole purpose - you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down,

William Bennett

Black Down Quotes #288255
#51. I would love to be like Justin Bieber or Selena Gomez. They were catapulted into stardom when they were so young - like I was - and they still haven't gone down the wrong path and I hope neither or them will. I find that really inspiring.

Rebecca Black

Black Down Quotes #288829
#52. It is frustrating having to walk through America having to bob and weave people's impressions of me because they see a tall, black guy walking down the street. That is frustrating.

Justin Simien

Black Down Quotes #293513
#53. I've tried to move [the sidhe-seers] during times of peace and quiet and had the luck of a broken mirror nailed beneath an upside-down horseshoe with a ladder nearby that a black cat just walked under.

Karen Marie Moning

Black Down Quotes #305930
#54. I can never kind of fathom a character's journey beyond the moment when you go to black, any more than when people ask me what Jason Patric did with the tape recorder at the end of 'Narc,' you know what I mean? Even in 'Blood, Guts,' like, what happens down the road with these characters?

Joe Carnahan

Black Down Quotes #309260
#55. As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes up. Then there's a backlash, and if folks stop pushing, it goes down. Let's face it, it's a lot more complicated.

Stanley Nelson Jr.

Black Down Quotes #311460
#56. The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.

Black Elk

Black Down Quotes #316725
#57. I think there's a reason that horror appeals to teens. There's a lot of useful lessons to take away from reading horror. We get to be scared in the comfort and safety of our own homes. We can put the book down if we get too scared, and no one will ever know if we decide not to pick it up again.

Holly Black

Black Down Quotes #318763
#58. Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.

Leah Hager Cohen

Black Down Quotes #323620
#59. Some women waited for a night in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.

Ilona Andrews

Black Down Quotes #325452
#60. When black women are down with you and in your corner, you have an ally that will move Heaven and Earth.

Tyler Perry

Black Down Quotes #342470
#61. I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.

Peter Beard

Black Down Quotes #343623
#62. Her heart's too hurt ... you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady
she sees shame where some of us just see people.

Margo Lanagan

Black Down Quotes #344110
#63. A silhouette was striding down the center of the road, heading for the alley we'd just vacated. Lean, tall, a long black coat rippling behind him, he was instantly recognizable. Even from this distance, I could see the glow of his sword, blue-black and deadly, and the glint of a cold silver eye.

Julie Kagawa

Black Down Quotes #351577
#64. Drawing is the most direct and personal kind of graphic expression. Unlike painting, it doesn't forgive. You put down your black line, and there it is - as inevitable as death.

Tomi Ungerer

Black Down Quotes #358643
#65. Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.

Tracie Bennett

Black Down Quotes #360577
#66. On that night he made clear to his secret society that the fundamental conflict of his life was founded on precisely that belief: the white establishment would always keep the common black man down in order to cover their own asses.

Jeff Hobbs

Black Down Quotes #368603
#67. Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They're not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.

Ben E. King

Black Down Quotes #370749
#68. All too familiar, he relived those few traumatic seconds at the wheel of Joe Henry's old black Framo van. He recalled his terror as he saw the border guard kneel down

Ken Follett

Black Down Quotes #374606
#69. For a moment, I felt as if the universe had turned upside down and we were falling softly into an enormous black bowl of stars, and I knew, beyond any doubt, that everything was going to be alright.

Tana French

Black Down Quotes #375163
#70. Fall down again, Bella?'
No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face.

Stephenie Meyer

Black Down Quotes #378336
#71. I tried to push down my anger. One thing I hated more than Daemon's douche-nozzle side was him telling me what to do. "You don't own me, Daemon."
"It's not about ownership, you little nut."
"Nut?" I glared at him. "I wouldn't call me names when I have a knife in my hand.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Black Down Quotes #382260
#72. Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase."
I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk.
"They're for you."
"You want me to look homeless, desperate, but also kind of fabulous?

Holly Black

Black Down Quotes #387280
#73. My dad was a complicated man. He was a huge racist, my dad, but he still tried to be a good father, you know? Like, he would tell me that Santa Claus was black - that way, when I found out he didn't exist, it wouldn't be that big a let down.

Anthony Jeselnik

Black Down Quotes #387714
#74. He was in old pajama bottoms, with a towel flung over his shoulder, a paintbrush in one hand. There was paint on his bare chest and some in his hair...The black spiraling Marks winding down his torso, like vines wreathing a pillar.

Cassandra Clare

Black Down Quotes #388052
#75. It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.

Dylan Thomas

Black Down Quotes #391343
#76. Various parts of my body told me that in the future they would appreciate it if I slept lying down on a bed instead of sitting at the counter of Black Cat Coffee. I quietly reassured them that this was an unusual situation, and had the machinery make me some bread as a breakfast.

Lemony Snicket

Black Down Quotes #396000
#77. Bryn," I murmured, twisting around to see his sleeping face steeped in the brightness of the day. I stroked my fingers down his cheek and ran my hands through his silky mane of black hair. I must be dead, I mused, for certainly waking up in Bryn's arms is heaven.

D.T. Dyllin

Black Down Quotes #409495
#78. While he was watching the ships, Buttercup shoved him with all her strength remaining. Down went the man in black. "You can die too for all I care," she said, and then she turned away.
Words followed her. Whispered from afar, weak and warm and familiar. "As ... you ... wish ...

William Goldman

Black Down Quotes #409707
#79. And the rain went rollin down the windowpanes, and the shadows wiggled n' squiggled on her check and forehead like black veins.

Stephen King

Black Down Quotes #414469
#80. All of these guys have got someone to go home to after the fight. They've got their baby, I've got mine: Jamie Atwood. That's who I love. He's the one I go home to at night, and who patches me up after I get beaten down.

Maris Black

Black Down Quotes #414674
#81. Because wrapped up in conceit the size of Jerar was my Darren. Somewhere. Deep, deep down. And that part I loved. With every bit of my being.
I just vehemently hated the rest.

Rachel E. Carter

Black Down Quotes #414939
#82. And then he saw the chains, snapping down through the clouds to crack thunderously on the horizon. Hundreds of chains, impossibly huge, black, whipping in the air with explosions of red dust, crisscrossing the sky. Horror filled his soul.

Steven Erikson

Black Down Quotes #433676
#83. My knee struck a tree root as my vision went black. Suddenly, I was in a building at Haven Crest, kneeling on the floor. Blood, thick and clotted like canned cherries, crept down the walls. The lights above my head flickered off then on with a menacing hum.

Kady Cross

Black Down Quotes #437356
#84. But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.

Black Kettle

Black Down Quotes #450113
#85. He went out of the door, and she watched him through the little window, walking slowly to the door of the church. Then she sat down at his table, and put her head on it, and was silent, with the patient suffering of black women, with the suffering of oxen, with the suffering of any that are mute.

Alan Paton

Black Down Quotes #453799
#86. It was '86. We were a big enough name and we had enough cache that MTV wanted to play us, so, along with Michael Jackson and Madonna, they played our upside-down, black-and-white, backward, single unedited footage of a rock quarry with orange letters over the top of it and called it art.

Michael Stipe

Black Down Quotes #455508
#87. It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

Spike Lee

Black Down Quotes #457018
#88. Every other civilized country has determined when life begins and it's something that eludes us. We've got things that have to be done! "We didn't fix that bridge because you are all down at the meeting house discussing abortion again."

Lewis Black

Black Down Quotes #463693
#89. It would be so easy to slip down into the black hole, become mute, tread in that mind's place where speech and thought are pointless, but that would be a luxury.

Danielle Flood

Black Down Quotes #470513
#90. When I lie this close to you, when I smell your scent, when I hear your voice, I know everything that matters."
She looked down the length of him.
"You are the male I want to mate with. That's who you are.

J.R. Ward

Black Down Quotes #480159
#91. And the fact that Emmett Till, a young black man, could be found floating down the river in Mississippi, as, indeed, many had been done over the years, this set in concrete the determination of people to move forward.

Fred Shuttlesworth

Black Down Quotes #480167
#92. What's happening to me? he might have thought. What am I doing down here in the black?

Naomi Wood

Black Down Quotes #480806
#93. Oh! thou big white God aloft there somewhere in yon darkness, have mercy on this small black boy down here; preserve him from all men that have no bowels to feel fear!

Herman Melville

Black Down Quotes #481597
#94. Jack gazed down at the black surface of the sea. He felt and affinity with the ocean, as if it were a kindred spirit. The knowledge that every drop of water had always been a drop of water, practically since the stars were formed. Water was infinite and immortal.

David Llewellyn

Black Down Quotes #490285
#95. I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes.

Matana Roberts

Black Down Quotes #490905
#96. The film 'Black Hawk Down' paints the Somali people as wild savages.

Brendan Sexton III

Black Down Quotes #491487
#97. I was down to my lacy black bra and matching, thankfully, modest boy shorts first.
Ashley was next. "Thank god I shaved yesterday!"
Sandra was stripped to her underwear soon after. "I didn't, but I need to. No one look at my downtown.

Penny Reid

Black Down Quotes #494088
#98. I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.

Sam Taylor-Wood

Black Down Quotes #503025
#99. We look at young black kids with a scowl on their face, walking a certain way down the block with their sweatpants dangling, however, with their hoodies on. And folks think that this is a show of power or a show of force. But I know, because I've been among those kids, it ultimately is fear.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Black Down Quotes #519353
#100. There was a cold wind out on the street. It picked up the dust, whirled it about and suddenly scattered it, flinging it down like black chaff. There was an implacable severity in the frost, in the branches that tapped together like bones, in the icy blue of the tram-lines.

Vasily Grossman

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