Top 100 Quotes About Downhill
#1. Downhill's the future of the sport. Cross-country's not geared for TV. Some fat guy watching it with a beer in one hand and potato chips in the other is going to say, I can do that. America likes to see people crash.
Missy Giove
#2. To feel nervous; to feel threatened and vulnerable and alive and engaged in that sense when interacting with someone you're really attracted to? I think that's wonderful. That's usually the best part. In fact, it's almost always downhill from there.
Alex Karpovsky
#3. For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.
Diane Ackerman
#4. I just think age is meaningless. It's a system we've all agreed to that supposedly signals when we should develop, reach our peak and go downhill, as they say. It interferes with our natural growth.
Peter Horton
#5. When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.
C. G. Jung
#6. I don't know if you heard the news, but Wall Street now is a farmer's market. I don't want to say things are going downhill quickly, but Obama's new campaign slogan is 'Are you better off than you were four days ago?'
Bill Maher
#7. Oh. Oh, wow. This was going downhill fast even though Rider looked like he wanted a bucket of popcorn.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#8. I had no schedule, no plan for today or the next, or the week after. Everything in my life just seemed to kind of roll together, collect speed and go thundering downhill.
Shannon Olson
#9. I have a free wheeling mind with dodgy brakes. Once I start going downhill I find it hard to stop and usually end up going over the handlebars.
Gillibran Brown
#10. Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s.
Harvey Pekar
#11. Love is an uphill climb, but once you know yourself and like yourself just as you are, it's all downhill from there.
Valerie Frankel
#13. The uphill climb is slow,but the downhill road is fast.
John Wooden
#14. When WOMEN got the right to vote is when it all went downhill. Because that's when votes started being cast with emotion and uh, maternal instincts that government ought to reflect ...
Rush Limbaugh
#15. Today it was win or lose. But my victory yesterday and the downhill globe boosted my confidence. My record in Cortina was also a liberation.
Lindsey Vonn
#16. Those who walk, run, or slide downhill eagerly would rather not think about the long, hard climb back up the hill again.
Swami Kriyananda
#17. There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.
Lauren Bacall
#18. Maybe the problem was that we never struggled. We just coasted along. The thing about coasting is that it usually means you're going downhill.
Molly Harper
#19. It's a moment. A defining moment when you know that your favorite television program has reached its peak. That instant that you know from now on ... it's all downhill. Some call it the climax. We call it 'Jumping the Shark.' From that moment on, the program will simply never be the same.
Jon Hein
#20. If you're coasting,you're either losing momentum orelse you're headed downhill.
Joan Welsh
#21. I'm not a real smart guy. But I've got enough brains to realize that when I'm 60 years old and play a sport, that it's downhill.
Lee Trevino
#22. Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
John Simon
#24. Some people put more effort and money into the wedding day than they do into the marriage itself, then it's all downhill from there. I was happy for a simple start; things could only get better.
Sam Torode
#25. If you decide to just go with the flow, you'll end up where the flow goes, which is usually downhill, often leading to a big pile of sludge and a life of unhappiness. You'll end up doing what everyone else is doing.
Sean Covey
#26. I think Hitchcock had a thing about hills: think of the house on the hill in 'Psycho.' Then, in 'Vertigo,' Scottie is forever traversing the city, going downhill all the time as he goes deeper and deeper into himself. It's as if Hitchcock is using San Francisco as a psychological map.
Allen Coulter
#27. My name is Magnus Chase. I'm sixteen years old. This is the story of how my life went downhill after I got myself killed.
Rick Riordan
#28. The thing about plummetting downhill at fifty miles an hour on a snack platter - if you realize it's a bad idea when you're halfway down, it's too late.
Rick Riordan
#29. Once the hag got upset she was apt to go downhill very fast and remember things like she was an orphan. People are often orphans when they are eighty-two, but it is true that when you have no mother or father you can feel very lonely at any age.
Eva Ibbotson
#30. Don't be preoccupied with something that drags your mind downhill. Be someone who could be destined to shine and can have the ability reach ultimate goals for the future.
Saaif Alam
#31. The quality of student work has definitely gone downhill since they discontinued the use of the whipping post.
-Silk
David Eddings
#32. Writing's like running downhill; can't stop if you want to.
Hilary Mantel
#34. Most of the stories I have go downhill quickly. In all honesty most of the good stories I have, no one else would think is funny.
JD Era
#35. It used to be thought that you stopped making new neural connections in your youth and from then on your brain was fixed and it was downhill all the way. But in fact as we know from our own experience we can keep on learning and learning means changing our brain on a physical level.
Philippa Perry
#36. If you're doing what you love, then that's what matters. I am happy, and I am happy where I am. If things go downhill, then I move on to the next, and that's what makes me happy.
Lights
#37. People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.
Cal Thomas
#38. I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs.
Judah Friedlander
#39. It starts off ridiculous and goes downhill from there as we each take a turn. We dance in a way that's only possible when there are no boys around. The rule is not to take yourself seriously, but whoever gets a solo has to keep as straight a face as possible and go for it.
Melina Marchetta
#40. I've tucked and tried to roll after that first spread-eagle spin but soon discovered the universal truth that bowling-ball-shaped objects bounce downhill much faster than do mannequin-shaped objects. In my current predicament, speed, obviously, was not my friend.
Stephen White
#41. Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in an automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all marked 'Progress.
Lord Dunsany
#42. Man is not growing better! Man is not climbing upward. Instead of progress in man himself there is degeneracy - degeneracy of body, mind, and spirit. Man is going downhill.
Billy Graham
#43. My theory about meeting people,' he said,'is that it's better not to make a really good first impression. Because it's all downhill from there. You're always having to live up to that first impression, which was just an illusion.
Lisa Kleypas
#44. Contours on the second half of a long putt have more impact on how the ball rolls because it's going slower. Adjust your speed if that last part is playing uphill or downhill. Don't get fooled by an early slope or break.
Ernie Els
#45. Taryn, is it really that bad? (Janine)
Considering the fact that I'm stuck out in this wretched heat wearing high heels with a black car that currently wouldn't go downhill with a hurricane pushing it, I'd say yes. (Taryn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#46. Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.
Sloane Crosley
#48. Cordelia looked at Edric. "Which way will lead to our respite, think you?"
"I don't know, my lady," he admitted.
There was a pause.
"This way," Tania decided, heading off to the left and pulling him with her.
"Why?"
"It's downhill.
Allan Frewin Jones
#49. It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The
reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
George Sand
#51. You can't climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts.
Zig Ziglar
#52. Coffee is the highlight of my day. After coffee everything is downhill.
Bill Simmons
#53. I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.
Mickey Spillane
#54. But the problem with crests is that they lead downhill. From the crest I can see all the rest of my years stretched out before me. And the view doesn't please me. I see only aging, diminishment, fathering, grandfathering." "But,
Irvin D. Yalom
#55. Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.
Norman Vincent Peale
#56. I never understand when people say, 'School days are the best of your life.' So it's all downhill from 16? How depressing.
Marsha Thomason
#57. In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.
Madame De Stael
#58. Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill.
Moby
#59. She started off with an inspiration, a brave and dazzling idea; from that moment on, her pleasure ran downhill. In the first place she could never find a pattern to suit her. It was no wonder; there were no patterns made to match the ideas that blossomed in her head.
Alice Munro
#60. I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill
it finds its way.
Jonathan Alter
#62. Every once in a while I run the Olympic downhill in Japan in my head. I think of how the energy is going to flow and then I make it all work for myself.
Picabo Street
#63. I think the moment you start trying to please a fan base is when you start going downhill. I'm going to always, always write about what I want, even if it doesn't necessarily cater to most of them.
Ed Sheeran
#64. When you give up in your mind, your mind gives up on you. Once this happens, the rest is downhill.
Timi Nadela
#66. The United States started to go downhill when it changed from a round designed to kill the enemies of our glorious republic to one designed to piss them off," Faith said, shooting a zombie five times, then walking up and shooting the still-thrashing infected in the head. "Seriously, just die, okay?
John Ringo
#67. So, as middle-class families have been tumbling downhill, working-class families have been tumbling into poverty. And
Amy Goldstein
#68. Players act like the floor is slanted; they run downhill on fast breaks and jog uphill when getting back on defense
Tates Locke
#69. The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.
Al-Ghazali
#70. Taking the high road is hard work-- walking uphill requires strength and effort. Anyone can take the low road--walking downhill is easy.
Rachel St. John-Gilbert
#71. It's time, Perry. He let her go. She took a step back, taking in his face one last time. His green eyes. The bend in his nose and the scars on his cheek. All the tiny inperfections that made him beautiful. Without a word, she turned and made her way downhill.
Veronica Rossi
#72. Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed.
Geoffrey Wood
#73. I can still chase women, only downhill
Bob Hope
#74. But one way or another competing and weeding takes place ... or a race goes downhill.
Robert A. Heinlein
#75. Alzheimer's is a disease for which there is no effective treatment whatsoever. To be clear, there is no pharmaceutical agent, no magic pill that a doctor can prescribe that will have any significant effect on the progressive downhill course of this disease.
David Perlmutter
#78. The road went ever more steeply downhill. Overhead, the branches of the trees intertwined. It was a still, windless morning, cloudy and damp.
Cornelia Funke
#79. I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill.
Eugene Cernan
#80. Well, Samantha ... you were introduced to this guy. It went downhill from there. That might make it justifiable homicide. From time to time, I've wanted to kill people I knew even less well ... strangers in supermarkets.
Am I on my roof with a psychopath?
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#81. From the moment you become a spectator, everything is downhill. It is a life that ends before the cheering and the shouting die.
George Sheehan
#82. The God that can only love something like this man. And from then on it was all downhill.
Todd Rundgren
#83. I was fine, until I was born. And it's been downhill ever since.
Peter Steele
#84. ...My taut heart
lurches heavily, like a sack in a cart, clattering
downhill, towards a cliff, towards an abyss!
It can't be stopped!
Vladimir Nabokov
#85. A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking.
Michelangelo
#86. I like to hit it downhill, that's the way I was taught to run.
Jamal Lewis
#87. Ever since the development of the spine, the individual had become paramount, the group disregarded. Ghiselle was only following the downhill path of her species.
Tom Perrotta
#88. It was really tough to race the GS a day after the downhill, but that's over now. I'm looking forward for the rest of the season which is also quite interesting.
Hermann Maier
#89. You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.
Sarah Dessen
#90. When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.
Lauren Bacall
#91. In most companies, the corporate mentality is if you're over 30, you're on the downhill side, and if you're over 40, you're brain dead. Or, if you're over 30 or 40 and you've been doing it for a while, you've got experience and you want to be paid for that experience.
Mike Royer
#93. There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.
Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft
#94. The instructor stared at me with cold, cut-me-no-slack determination, then got into a fighting stance, holding one hand out, beckoning me.
"I saw that movie too!"I said."It was like the coolest movie of all-"
He launched himself at me.
That was when his day really went downhill.
James Patterson
#95. He was my enemy. He was evil. He wasn't even human. I should have been disgusted, but just like the last time, I couldn't help myself any more than water could stop itself running downhill.
Rosamund Hodge
#96. I don't feel any ethical dilemma when I write. In my memoir, I was able to write with candor about the two most difficult people in the world to write with candor about - mom and dad. Everything else is downhill from there.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
#98. With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyo's! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.
Jason Dolley
#99. Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.
Dennis Prager
#100. I've never worried about 'the reader' because there isn't one. There are thousands, and they all have strong opinions, from 'Magician' was the best ever,' and I've gone downhill since to 'The new book is the best ever,' so to whom to I listen? So I write for myself and hope other people like it.
Raymond E. Feist
