Top 100 Put Down Quotes
#1. It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you can.
Sebastian Barry
#2. When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
Edward Albee
#3. The Farfield Curse is a story you'll want to pick up, but not put down!
Kaza Kingsley
#4. By the time your offspring have reached four and five it is far too late to be looking for schools: demand for private education is so high that children must be put down for admission not at birth but in utero, ideally before their first cells have divided.
Stephen Fry
#5. You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house.
Renzo Piano
#6. But slowly, I was beginning to feel lighter, like I'd just put down something that I'd been carrying for so long, I hadn't realized how heavy it had grown.
Morgan Matson
#7. She said they needed to put down a real root system to achieve their potential
Holly Goldberg Sloan
#8. Empowered Women 101: A man doesn't have to put down other women to prove his love for you. In fact, why would you teach him to be less than Christlike, in order to show his devotion? Real women don't need the people in their life to lower others, in order to raise them up.
Shannon L. Alder
#9. Every medium has its advantages and weaknesses and there are many things I can put down on paper that I might not be able to put into film or into a stage performance. In each form, one can communicate powerfully in different ways.
Lawrence Wright
#10. That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
Anne McCaffrey
#11. In some circles where very heavy people think they have very heavy brains, words like "charming" and "clever" and "pretty" are all put-downs; all the lighter things in life, which are the most important things, are put down.
Andy Warhol
#12. My interest in writing about American history stemmed originally, I think, from a subconscious desire to find roots - I felt like a girl without a country. I have put down roots quite firmly by now, but in the process, I have discovered the joys of research and am probably hooked.
Jean Fritz
#13. The best, most lasting changes are those which come about gradually; to reach great heights, a tree must first put down extensive roots.
Aprilynne Pike
#14. I looked at Allison. "You're a lot of fun. But right now I want you to put down the frying pan, okay?"
"Are you crazy?"
"Put it down.
Rick Riordan
#15. Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again.
Hesiod
#16. God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know - it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.
August Strindberg
#18. At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.
Donald James
#19. Place before your eyes two Precepts, and two only. One is, Preach the Gospel; and the other is
Put down enthusiasm!The Church of England in a nutshell.
Mary Augusta Ward
#20. You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that
William Goldman
#21. I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.
Bharati Mukherjee
#22. It is crystal clear to me that if Arabs put down a draft resolution blaming Israel for the recent earthquake in Iran it would probably have a majority, the U.S. would veto it and Britain and France would abstain.
Amos Oz
#23. Are you the same? Is it only afterward that you think of what you should have said, the killer response,the put-down that would make them stay put down?
Rachel Ward
#24. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice barely restrained, the instinct to run or freeze or hide, and in many respects this was the heaviest burden of all, for it could never be put down, it required perfect balance and perfect posture
Tim O'Brien
#25. I seemed to hear God saying, Put down your gun and we'll talk.
C.S. Lewis
#26. Having children was not like people said. Forget training them in your footsteps; the minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but shoes and a winter coat.
Barbara Kingsolver
#27. I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839]
Edgar Allan Poe
#28. The seeds sown in childhood put down deep roots. At
Stephen King
#29. Now what happens?" asked the man in black.
"We face each other as God intended," Fezzik said. "No tricks, no weapons, skill against skill alone."
"You mean you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try to kill each other like civilized people, is that it?
William Goldman
#30. I was always the clown in school. I had a personal put down sense of humor. I wasn't vindictive. I didn't make fun of people.
Jim Dale
#31. Rose put down her fork. "Lord Submarine ... "
"Camarine."
"Whatever.
Ilona Andrews
#32. Maybe we feel empty because we spend so much of our own time watching other people live their lives, chase their dreams, express their love, and navigate their relationships. And when we turn off our TV or put down our phone ... We've nourished nothing of our own.
Steve Maraboli
#33. Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.
Vincent De Paul
#34. Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do.
Neil Young
#35. If you put down a list of jobs, doctor, lawyer, janitor, teacher or movie star, everybody would pick the movie star. And why? So you could lie around the pool, drink margaritas and send money to your parents. So that's what I did.
Steve Guttenberg
#36. Some dogs need to be put down." Nico took a step forward. "Like you." For
Rick Riordan
#37. When I was a small boy, if we had a problem, we would fight about it with our fists. We wouldn't shoot somebody, killing them or wounding them. That's not hard to do. I would like people to put down the guns. If you have a problem, talk about it or fight about it.
Snoop Dogg
#38. I could run 200 yards at a stretch, I could duck between players, I felt free to make plays that suited me best. It wasn't like football then and basketball today, where coaches tell you what foot to put down.
Jim Brown
#39. The most common self-inflicted put-down is 'I am not a pastor-I am just a layperson.' This is all part of a clever satanic scheme to neutralize apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers along with the entire army of disciples, already positioned in the marketplace.
Ed Silvoso
#40. A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.
Roger Ebert
#41. We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He clears his throat. "I continually struggle with kindness.
Veronica Roth
#42. I put down my phone ... Hugged her from behind ... Kissed the back of her neck ... Our fingers entwined ... Bliss ...
Steve Maraboli
#44. THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining.
Stephen King
#45. Angels, demons, sex. Heaven, hell, war. Blood and royalty, history and magic, fire and ice. And a story you cannot put down. This is fantasy at its best.
Stephen Graham Jones
#46. My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.
Robert Breault
#47. Elena wondered if Michaela was waiting to be served. Snorting inwardly at the idea, she poured her own coffee - and, because she was feeling generous, and okay, maybe because she wanted to irritate Michaela - Raphael's as well. Then she put down the carafe.
Nalini Singh
#48. It was also never wanting to be part of any group or movement or anything that was the done thing. I hated organization. When you have a group, you have a leader who is going to put down the rest of the group.
Rei Kawakubo
#49. When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.
Meghan O'Rourke
#50. Put down your guns and go home. Let's rebuild the nation together. This was President Lincoln's vision, to which Grant subscribed.
Bill O'Reilly
#51. Angus thought about this. She was right. That was why our national conversation was so bad. Courtesy had been abandoned in favour of the put-down, the attack, the calculated sound bite. What sort of national conversation was that? The answer came to him immediately: none.
Alexander McCall Smith
#52. People who feel insecure in social situations never miss a chance to exhibit their dominance over close, submissive friends, whomthey put down publicly, in front of everyone
by teasing, for example.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#53. Want to enhance your family life and relationships? PUT DOWN YOUR PHONE! You will be surprised how enriching it can be.
Steve Maraboli
#54. Andy once clipped a magazine article about how black dogs are always the last to be adopted at shelters and, therefore, more likely to be put down. Which is totally Dog Racism, if you ask me.
Stephanie Perkins
#55. I am sort of anti-hunting. I don't put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.
Clint Eastwood
#56. The terrible beast, that no one may understand,
Came to my side, and put down his head in love.
Louise Bogan
#57. Knitting is very conducive to thought. It is nice to knit a while, put down the needles, write a while, then take up the sock again.
Dorothy Day
#58. She talked to herself as she wrote. "Dark hair, about six four five, two-forty. Shoulders the size of Nebraska. Amazing blue eyes." She put down her pen. Amazing blue eyes?Where did that come from?
David Baldacci
#59. Girl you need to go in the bathroom and get a mirror and look at the ones I put down below, on your pussy.
Chris Renee
#60. If there would not have been a Waco, I would have put down roots somewhere and not been so unsettled with the fact that my government ... was a threat to me. Everything that Waco implies was on the forefront of my thoughts. That sort of guided my path for the next couple of years.
Timothy McVeigh
#61. I simply try to put down colors which render my sensation
Henri Matisse
#62. And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.
Emma Donoghue
#63. V shook his head. "Remember what you saw in that clearing, cop? How'd you like that anywhere near a female you loved?"
Butch put down the Bud without drinking from it. His eyes traveled over Rhage's body.
"We're going to need a shitload of steel," the human muttered.
J.R. Ward
#64. I'm definitely an athlete who has a hobby playing music. I've been doing baseball since I was 5 or 6. It's the only thing I've ever thought of really my whole life, and music came into my life actually in '99, playing and singing. It's definitely been the only hobby I've had that I can't put down.
Bronson Arroyo
#65. 'Writing' is the wrong way to describe what happens to words in a movie. First, you put down words. Then you rehearse them with actors. Then you shoot the words. Then you edit them. You cut a lot of them, you fudge them, you make up new ones in voice-over. Then you cut it and throw it all away.
Peter Landesman
#66. I felt vindicated that I decided to speak up for not only myself but women all across the nation who've been put down.
Gretchen Carlson
#67. Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to put down. It should be a delightful adventure.
Arthur Dove
#68. Though I feared I would have no progress when I put down the drink, [my writing] hasn't changed. The creative search, and the fragments that I collect, reflects that.
Karl Hyde
#69. I put down the stack of pages and turned around to face him directly, just as he'd always taught me to do once I realized I was in for a fight.
Joe Schreiber
#70. Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.
Scott Weiland
#71. Like all teenagers in the early '60s, I put down my hockey stick when the Beatles got big and picked up a guitar. We all thought we'd be rock stars. Then I got into comedy, but I'd always find a way to use my guitar, such as writing songs and doing musical parodies.
Rick Moranis
#72. If you want to write ... keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.
Madeleine L'Engle
#73. It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
Abraham Lincoln
#74. As we passed a bloke playing a saxophone underneath one of the arches, he put down the sax and started doing a juggling thing with his hands. It was a bit peculiar, though, because, as I said to Jas, He hasn't got any balls.
Louise Rennison
#75. You put down one color and it calls for an answer. You have to look at it like a melody.
Romare Bearden
#76. But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.
Julian Barnes
#77. If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel'
Benjamin Netanyahu
#78. Hush little baby, Dont you cry, Dont cut your arms, Dont say goodbye. Put down that razor, Put down that light, It maybe hard but, You'll win this fight.
Emily Giffin
#79. He had to put down the sacks of sugar and coffee then. Because, though he could hold off a mob at the depot with no trouble, even he couldn't kiss a girl with his arms full of contraband.
Ann Rinaldi
#80. You should recognize that criticism is not always a put down. If you take it to heart, maybe it will guide the way you ought to be going.
Joseph H. Flom
#81. I'm a grown-ass man. I can't be, like, ordering people to put down their phones.
Travis Morrison
#82. Despite her unrepentant aversion to Italian food, which her husband put down to her nation's historic distrust of Italy, she suddenly declared: All I want in life is to be able to get a take-away pizza!
Julia Stuart
#83. I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.
J.P. Donleavy
#84. Actors, who invest a lot of time and energy, will never put down each other. Every one of us has their own space in the industry. These stories are either publicity mechanisms or someone just writes them to create a controversy.
Katrina Kaif
#85. We appreciate the complicated and wonderful gifts you give us in each other. And we appreciate the task you put down before us, of loving each other the best we can, even as you love us.
Kate DiCamillo
#86. In the 'Mad Men' era, the archetypal dad came home; put down his briefcase; received pipe, Manhattan, roast beef, potatoes, key-lime pie; and was - apparently - content.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#87. If you're getting paid more than me, I'm definitely more excited about this ass whoopin I'm gonna put down on you.
Nick Diaz
#88. The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
John Stuart Mill
#89. I told a doctor once, Doc, if you want to know what's inside of me, put down the x-ray and pick up my novel!
Gerard De Marigny
#90. Elizabeth was astounded, and immediately colored.
"Put down those damn crayons and look at me!" Darcy commanded.
William Codpiece Thwackery
#91. The last of the three now said his say, as he put down his empty drinking vessel and smacked his lips.
Charles Dickens
#92. Mr. Beresford put down the Daily Mail, which he was reading, and applauded with somewhat unnecessary vigour. He was politely requested by his colleague not to be an ass.
Agatha Christie
#93. You hear about our conservative background and know that we're Christian guys, but we're not timid at all. I will take anyone on when it comes to outworking them or putting on a better show or standing up for people who are being put down.
Tyler Joseph
#94. Don't run away from me, Logan. I'm not sure why you're scared every time I try and show you some kindness, but don't reject me. It's not easy for me either. I'm not a natural. I've forgotten how it feels to put down the barriers and let someone in.
Caroline Cairn
#95. I am convinced that there can be no regeneration of mankind until laughter is put down.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#96. I've learnt from experience that a painting isn't finished when you put down your brush - that's when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.
Banksy
#97. ...are not all women treated by all men like something inferior, like chattels you take up and put down at will?
Winston Graham
#98. I only put down on paper what works for me, and since I started out as a human train wreck, the ways I've learned to be happy also work for others.
Martha N. Beck
#99. The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed ... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to.
Joseph Raffael
#100. I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.
Gabe Newell
