Run Down Quotes

#1. I keep Reagan's 11th Commandment that I don't run down other Republicans.

James Lankford

#2. If we do run, you'll need four legs to keep up with me today, Edwards. Oh that's right, you've been holding back because you're English, and it's not sporting to run down a girl. Well, this girl's been kicking your butt.

April White

#3. The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

Roger Moore

#4. Have you ever watched a deer walking out from cover? They step, stop, and stay, motionless, nose to the air, looking and smelling. A nervous twitch might run down their flanks. And then, reassured that all is safe, they ankle their way out of the brush to graze.

Helen Macdonald

#5. I allowed an uncertain smile to cross my face, though it did so with a little reluctance, wary of being run down by some more powerful expression.

Ian Barker

#6. When a good animal gets run down in the road, a kid never forgets.

Stephen King

#7. In the best tradition of kidnapping, she appeared to be in some kind of run down warehouse. Sheesh, didn't the bad guys ever watch the movies?

Mina Carter

#8. I'm very harsh on real estate agents. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because of how the call every small house 'charming' and every run-down house a 'great fixer-upper'. Just once, I'd like them to show me a house and declare, 'This one's a piece of crap'.

Stephan Pastis

#9. Almost as soon as it was lit it began to sound as though it were running down, but in fact it would continue to run down for a long time. He knew the feeling.

John Crowley

#10. Their faces were wholly burned, their eyesockets were hollow, the fluid from their melted eyes had run down their cheeks.

John Hersey

#11. What is that?"
"A hunt," Puck replied, looking off into the distance. He grimaced. "You know, I was just thinking we needed to be run down like rabbits and torn apart. My day just isn't complete without something trying to kill me."
-Puck

Julie Kagawa

#12. Closed systems run down and get more chaotic over time. Always get better by being 'open' to outside energy and templates of better ways to function.

Henry Cloud

#13. He stood for a moment on the melting snow, distracted, and then began to run down the hill, feeling himself fly as the descent became more rapid, and thinking: I can climb back up. If it's wrong, I can always climb back up.

James Baldwin

#14. The way to create art is to burn and destroy
ordinary concepts and to substitute them
with new truths that run down from the top of the head
and out of the heart

Charles Bukowski

#15. I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

Molly Sims

#16. Nana, did you really try to run down some antigay protesters?" Dante asked. "Of course not! I'm not homicidal. I may, however, have encouraged them to shut the fuck up," she said.

Alexa Land

#17. Roetown, of mixed economy, neither boom nor bust, just ordinary times - that is, hard - had a slightly run-down aspect, I suppose. But in a pleasing way, like a man you love who has buttoned his coat up wrong.

Yann Martel

#18. Get out, Get out, get out, get out! I do what any sane male would do in this situation; I run down the hall and lock myself in her bedroom.

Colleen Hoover

#19. Pieces of intelligence, scraps of intelligence ... you run down leads and you run down leads, and you hope that sometimes it works.

Donald Rumsfeld

#20. One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully.

Robert Benchley

#21. Getting as much sleep as possible and following a healthy diet will stop you from feeling run-down if, like me, you're super-stressed.

Elizabeth Hurley

#22. Instead of singing in the shower, I would write out the lyrics of my favourite songs, the ink would turn the water blue or red or green, and the music would run down my legs.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#23. Folks double my age and older often run down a conversation tracking a vanishing world that will, with the passing of their memory, vanish entirely.

Charles D'Ambrosio

#24. We have now well established the fact in our own nation that one can do more work in six days, even in five, than in seven. A run-down person is an unproductive person.

Charles L. Allen

#25. We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.

Patrick Ness

#26. I pushed myself way too hard during the first year of Veronica Mars and I got moody and run-down. Now I'll go to bed early instead of going out with friends. It's not always the most fun option, but I know I need at least eight hours of sleep to feel balanced.

Kristen Bell

#27. When Clemson players rub that rock and run down the hill, it's the most exciting 25 seconds in college football.

Brent Musburger

#28. I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put my arms round her but I daren't. Do that and I'd never be able to let her go.

Joseph Delaney

#29. Don't be polite.
Bite in.
Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin.
It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.
You do not need a knife or fork or spoon.
For there is no core
or stem
or rind
or pit
or seed
or skin
to throw away.

Eve Merriam

#30. There are only so many times I can say, 'I owe it to my offensive linemen,' or, 'The credit should go to my teammates,' before it becomes run down.

Marshawn Lynch

#31. It will all stop someday, but not for billions of years. Many billions. Even the stars run down, you know. Entropy must increase.

Isaac Asimov

#32. When all the world is old, lad, And all the trees are brown; And all the sport is stale, lad, And all the wheels run down, Creep home and take your place there, The spent and maimed among: God grant you find one face there You loved when all was young.

Susanna Kearsley

#33. I start to run down the hill, but did I mention I can't feel my feet? They slip out from under me. I tumble head over heels, down, down, down until I splash into a stream. The icy water soaks through my clothes and bites into my skin. Why couldn't Elsa have had warm magical powers?

Elise Allen

#34. I don't think you need to run down someone's reputation in order to run for the office of president.

Jon Huntsman Jr.

#35. Why should I ? I don't need to run down my opponent through filthy language in order to win. The voters don't expect this from their representatives.

Preneet Kaur

#36. Don't be afraid, Queen, the blood has long run down into the earth. And on the spot where it was spilled, grapevines are growing today.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#37. That's right! Run him down! Run down everybody! Everyone is a fake to you!

Eugene O'Neill

#38. There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer's block, where you sit staring at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal, feeling you talent run down your leg and into your sock.

Anne Lamott

#39. The Bedlam that greeted James Tilly Matthews, then, was not so much a baroque spectacle of depravity as an exhausted and run-down public institution, its building falling apart and its professional image tarnished.

Mike Jay

#40. Some give up at the first touch of pressure; some sell out; some run down by imperceptible degrees and lose their fire, never knowing when or how they lost it.

Ayn Rand

#41. I've always wanted my music to have that desperation, where you just want to strip your clothes off and run down the highway. I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything.

Tove Lo

#42. I'm never running away again. In fact, just may run down the aisle.

Lorelei James

#43. The run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying them, a landscape beyond technology where everything was either derelict or more ambiguously recombined in unexpected but more meaningful ways

J.G. Ballard

#44. Hester bade little Pearl run down to the margin of the water, and play with the shells and tangled sea-weed, until she should have talked awhile with yonder gatherer of herbs.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#45. When you know youre whoring it hurts. I have kids. I'm not going to run down an actor for doing this.

Tim Roth

#46. Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.

Garrison Keillor

#47. The English, who look on stoically as national health hospitals in run-down metropolitan areas close their wards through lack of support and patients spend time on trolleys in corridors, are comforted by the knowledge that wounded hedgehogs are tenderly cared for in a hedgehog hospital.

Antony Miall

#48. If Martin Scorsese calls, I am available. And then there the ones, well, you can just run down the list - any of those Oscar-nominated films, they have amazing directors across the board.

Timothy Olyphant

#49. Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

Henry Ward Beecher

#50. The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.

Ralph W. Sockman

#51. This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get another rejection letter. Every successful writer has gone through that, but they kept writing and didn't quit until they made it happen.

Tim Maleeny

#52. I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.

Jackson Browne

#53. I would personally not run down any cinema just because I am not capable of making it. Anurag Kashyap makes a certain kind of cinema; I make a different kind. But when we meet, we are friendly.

Rohit Shetty

#54. It seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels.

Henry David Thoreau

#55. The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.

Jonathan Swift

#56. Whatever the children had become, whatever he had done to them, he had done to make them safe, to keep them from being run down by the world. He believed in his own decency with all his heart.

Joe Hill

#57. Give people the power of the gods, and they'll eventually run down like wind-up toys for lack of reasons to go on.

Karl Schroeder

#58. I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

Muddy Waters

#59. Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#60. The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

Elbert Hubbard

#61. Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend ... or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.

Marcus Aurelius

#62. I did not actually run down a deer for 'Tammy,' I promise.

Melissa McCarthy

#63. Another chunk of my childhood dreams had just run down the reality drain in the form of a horny unicorn, no less.

Allison Pang

#64. New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

Russell Baker

#65. You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.

Calvin Coolidge

#66. When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

Louis C.K.

#67. I'm the seventh child of George and Leona Douglas, and I don't ever remember a time when my father didn't work two jobs. When my mother was going to the grocery, or going to Mass, or trying to take care of seven kids in a run-down farmhouse.

Michael Keaton

#68. Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.

Vladimir Nabokov

#69. If I'm not on tour, I can run down to the comedy club and do a little stand-up. If you're an actor, you can't go - I guess there's forms of it.

Louis C.K.

#70. I take a multivitamin, vitamin D, and omega-3 oils every day, and if I'm stressed or run- down, I bulk up on vitamin C and zinc.

L'Wren Scott

#71. My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

Richard Dreyfuss

#72. Passion is taking such a bite out of life that when the juices run down your face, everyone licks their lips!

Chuck Spezzano

#73. The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.

Mark McKinnon

#74. It is the immigrant hordes who keep this country alive, the waves of them arriving year after year ... Who believes in America more than the people who run down the gangplank and kiss the ground?

E.L. Doctorow

#75. You will never feel alone, if you run down the stairs of loneliness; as every solitary step becomes your companion.

Munia Khan

#76. Sunny held Kit, and Violet held Klaus, and for a minute the four castaways did nothing but weep, letting their tears run down their faces and into the sea, which some have said is nothing but a library of all tears in history.

Lemony Snicket

#77. Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time.

Richard H. Davis

#78. A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.

Bert Williams

#79. Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.'
Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.

J.M. Barrie

#80. Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.

John C. Calhoun

#81. I listen to the rainfall,
my words wanna flow!
Droplets run down the wall,
where do they go?
Letters in the raw,
mesh together for the show!

Leslie Austin

#82. Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.

Learned Hand

#83. If I start to feel run-down or like I'm going to get sick, I know I need sleep - stat. I can sometimes keep a sickness at bay with a good night's sleep!

Annie Wersching

#84. Nobody cares for getting belittled by a person you've had sex with. A person you've licked all over. Nobody wants to sit there and get run down too far by somebody who gives them a hard-on.

Daniel Woodrell

#85. If you don't sleep you get run down. Sloths never get a flu, cos its good innit thats when your body's replemishing

Karl Pilkington

#86. The vertical lines that run down his forearms are the most disturbing, thick and jagged as if someone took a razor to his skin. I wish I could run my fingers along them and remove the pain and memories that are attached to them.

Jessica Sorensen

#87. The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

W. Somerset Maugham

#88. If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

Jackie Mason

#89. Set loose, a child would run down the paths, scramble up the rocks, lie on the earth. Grown-ups more often let their minds do the running, scrambling, and lying, but the emotion is shared. It feels good to be here.

David Miller

#90. Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.

Oscar Wilde

#91. Where are you actually going?" My voice rings down the empty street. "I just told you. I'm going out stalking." "What, on foot?" I come closer by another six paces. "You were going to walk?" "I was going to run down the middle of the street like the Terminator.

Sally Thorne

#92. I took the Nuban's bow. I didn't trust the midget to be able to run down any thieves, and besides, I might want to shoot a circus clown or two. Just for laughs.

Mark Lawrence

#93. The village was run-down, stank of butcher blood, and was filled with ravenous creatures that would rip your throat out for a snack. All of that I could deal with. The thing that made it truly abysmal was that it was in New Jersey.

J.C. Nelson

#94. I like to run down to the beach and have a little swim in the nude in the morning.

Robert McNamara

#95. Her marble tears run down her marble face.
A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief.

Who has no words to say.

Whose shadow mind is burning
as he sits watching her hands
and thinks how rare!

to see a Roman
talk
with no gestures at all.

Anne Carson

#96. The rivers rose, and, when they receded, sucked more of the fertile soil back down with them, to run down the Pedernales to the Colorado, down the Colorado to the Gulf. And

Robert A. Caro

#97. What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weather is pretty I like to get out one of my old cars. I have a little route I run down in the country, down Nachez Trace Parkway. The loop down through there is just really relaxing, not much traffic.

Alan Jackson

#98. That's your solution? Have a cookie?' Astrid asked. 'No, my solution is to run down to the beach and hide out until this is all over,' Sam said. 'But a cookie never hurts.

Michael Grant

#99. Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

Dinah Sheridan

#100. Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same people who like to watch the locomotive coming and get run down in the name of discipline.

Jeremy Grantham