Lowdown Quotes

#1. Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown.

Alice Walker

#2. It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.

Zooey Deschanel

#3. I understood more clearly than ever that the line between a noble revolutionary and a lowdown bandit was the line between war and peace.

James Carlos Blake

#4. You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.

David Edwards

#5. Brother, if you want to get the lowdown, Come along and let's all have a hoedown.

Brenda Lee

#6. Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell?

Alan Watts

#7. The real lowdown on gardening is ... dirt.

Texas Bix Bender

#8. Do not vainly lament, but do wonder at the rule of transiency and learn from it the emptiness of human life. Do not cherish to unworthy desire that the changeable might become unchanging.

Gautama Buddha

#9. There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

Edith Wharton

#10. If you're gonna learn how to do something, you'd better learn to do it right.

Christopher McDonald

#11. I think America causes cancer, longevity is less important than fun, and young people should be discouraged from voting.

Bill Maher

#12. I'm grateful that I'm mortal...it motivates me.

Kendall Talbot

#13. We don't play slow and we don't play fast, we play half fast

Louis Armstrong

#14. Old lovers go the way of old photographs, bleaching out gradually as in a slow bath of acid: first the moles and pimples, then the shadings. Then the faces themselves, until nothing remains but the general outlines.

Margaret Atwood

#15. If she'd been a color, she would have been bright green. If she'd been a scent, she would have been new paper. She was happy and intelligent and afraid of nothing.

Sarah Addison Allen

#16. If you mess with dragons, you will get burned. Don't say no one warned you.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#17. Time has stretched, so that a few hours are an age; and it has collapsed, so that the events of hours seem to have ended before they began. Turmoil, even when generated from within, can do that to a person.

Steven Brust

#18. When I am on the plane and turbulence kicks in, I can't abide it. I feel like we are all going to die, and it takes everything in me to stay calm. But there are worse things to have to cope with.

Marsha Thomason

#19. I can pretty much say all of us know when 'Downton' is going to end. This is a show with a finite life.

Brendan Coyle

#20. I want the score to have a really big voice.

Mike Figgis

#21. I don't know. I just feel stuck, like I'm afraid to take any steps, in case they're the wrong ones.

Rebecca Stead