Don't Kick Me While I'm Down Quotes

#1. However vile the abuse they receive, media people must remember this is part of the price of getting a public voice. Stay grateful. Don't kick down, kick up. Criticise power rather than proles.

Rob Manuel

#2. There's too many other people in the world who want nothing more than to kick you when you're down. Don't you dare do that job for them.

T.J. Klune

#3. We live in a society that likes to kick people when they're down. Don't be a fair-weather friend. Stick with people. They need you more in the tough times than they do in the good times.

Joel Osteen

#4. I swore I wasn't going to rescue any more damsels in distress," Day muttered.
To his surprise, Barbara gave him a lopsided grin, banging on the side of the trailer to make it produce a door. "What makes you think she isn't rescuing you?" she asked, and stomped inside without a backward look.

Deborah Blake

#5. Don't ever let the other stuff get in the way of your inherent skills as a kick-butt storyteller. Move the reader, make them happy and sad and excited and scared. Make them stare into space after they've put the book down, thinking about the tale that's become a part of them.

James Dashner

#6. They can all get some. Remember this! I will do this to all y'all down here. Look at his face. I don't care if you're a flyweight, or your mamma weight! I will kick your ass!

James Toney

#7. What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first.

N.D. Wilson

#8. When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it.

Robert Henri

#9. Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.

William Dobell

#10. If you are not willing to stand up for anything or anybody, then why should the Creator take a single step to help you?

Suzy Kassem

#11. Yeah, well, I don't really want to kick you when you're down, but mostly for some crazy reason"- her face tilts up and she gives me this shy little grin-"I think you might be worth it.

Trish Doller

#12. Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on a level that a lot of people don't bother to read.

Joss Whedon

#13. There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.

Josh Charles

#14. I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.

Clive Barker

#15. You don't kick a man when he is down," Bush dictated. "You don't revel in his demise. You don't pile on in life.

Jon Meacham

#16. I don't kick a man when he's down, unless I'm the one who put him down in the first place. I don't put him down unless he deserves it. And I don't break my word if I give it. So I'll give you my word.

Nora Roberts

#17. God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don't forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I'd love to do it for him, but I can't be everywhere.

Willie Nelson

#18. We don't believe in false pleasantries around these parts, nor do we kick a fella when he's down. So I'll just say, bless your heart, and leave it at that.

Penny Reid

#19. I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.

Don King

#20. You wouldn't call yourself a runner if you quit every race your ran halfway through.

Chuck Wendig

#21. What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.

Frederick William Robertson

#22. What are you doing, meditating?"
"No, I'm trying to calm down so I don't kick your ass," she said through clenched teeth.

Stacey Kade

#23. King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

Jamie Muir

#24. I don't like to kick people when they're down. I like to kick people when they're up.

Jimmy Fallon

#25. Love ... pain ... they're all just fragments of my dream!

Arina Tanemura

#26. It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.

Alain De Botton

#27. I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it.'

Todd Rokita

#28. It depends. If I don't let you in, will you huff and puff and blow my house down?"
She had no idea. "I'm more of a kick the door open and cut everyone inside to ribbons kind of wolf.

Ilona Andrews

#29. I'm trying to satirize what it's like to be a recording artist in 2011. I realize that standing on a soap box and ranting and raving about my opinions on the digital age and its effect on music is only going to get you so far.

DJ Shadow

#30. Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

Edmund Vance Cooke

#31. The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.

Stephen King

#32. the little governor in most mature adults' brains that told them the difference between polite commentary and insult was completely missing from Fletcher.

Melanie Schuster