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Your talk's so clever it makes my head spin,' Milva snorted. 'And all your wisdom comes down to what's under a woman's skirt. Woeful philosophers. — Andrzej Sapkowski

Here's an assignment for you: Write it down. Write down under what circumstances you're willing to quit. And when. And then stick with it. — Seth Godin

Something falls inside me. Sinks down deep. I look at my lap. A terrible leaden loneliness. Try to breathe under the weight of it. — Amy McNamara

Closeness means you get hurt; closeness means letting down your defences and letting people see the tender skin under the carapace. — Cathy Kelly

My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors. — David Lean

Yes: I was down there once, and for a good while afterward I could call up the sight of it in winter. But now it's all snowed under. — Edith Wharton

I was in Australia ... Lotta leg room down under. Apartments: dollar a month. 2000-acre den ... think of the parties. — Bill Hicks

Under the bludgeonings of chance, my head is bloody but unbowed.' In other words, life has a solid right hook, but it's not going to take me down. — Brigid Kemmerer

The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear. — Heinrich Heine

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

Why couldn't I be down there having fun like a normal teenage girl? Why did I always have to feel threatened? Under fire? — Kresley Cole

You learn more quickly under the guidance of experienced teachers. You waste a lot of time going down blind alleys if you have no one to lead you. — W. Somerset Maugham

I don't live on a hill. I live down under a hill, in the bottom and I've got a lot of cars, yeah. — Hasil Adkins

Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, it is possible for other parties to change the direction of a government without bringing a government down. — Nicola Sturgeon

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure. — Billie Jean King

The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Does the weight of consequence drag you down until it pulls you under? — Ashlee Simpson

People are masks, with masks under those masks, and masks under those, and down you go. — David Mitchell

Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work. — Sri Aurobindo

Oh, to be home again, home again, home again! Under the apple-boughs, down by the mill! — James Thomas Fields

If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting — Dorian Yates

Her grief was a burden so heavy, he came close to collapsing under it, and yet he couldn't lay it down. — Carsten Jensen

It occurred to me that Australians are so surrounded with danger that they have evolved an entirely new vocabulary to deal with it. — Bill Bryson

He slides his button-up under my ass and pulls down his boxer-briefs, freeing an enormous, vein-striped, purple-headed fuck machine. — Ella James

I just want to fly under the radar, because when you start to make yourself into a big deal, that's when you get shot down. — John Green

When even camels can't manage a desert, you know you've found a tough part of the world. — Bill Bryson

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go. — Henry Cavill

My goal in life is to get the federal government down to half its present size and under control, and then I can write murder mysteries. — Grover Norquist

I was a power dunker. I want to go straight up, put it down on somebody. I want everybody under there. — Darryl Dawkins

I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down. — Kim Kardashian

Knowing you were right down the hall was way too hard. I couldn't do it, Evan declared, sliding under the covers next to me. — Rebecca Donovan

You know all your Norse mythology and chess references make you a nerd, right? Deep down under all that muscle, ink, and leather, you're a huge nerd. — Susan Fanetti

Dex The Dick. Dex The Kind Grump was shoving his tongue down my throat. My boss. Dex. Charlie. The guy who signed my paychecks. — Mariana Zapata

The wrong man could have brought it all crashing down," she told him. "A different man might have collapsed under the weight of the responsibility. — Julie Anne Long

Even when bad stuff goes down, the person who is just about buried under an avalanche of sad memories is made of stern stuff. And so, keeps standing. — Sakura Tsukuba

I got down there about nine, under a hard high October moon that lost itself in the top layers of a beach fog. — Raymond Chandler

When the earth opens up under your feet, be like a seed. Fall down; wait for the rain. — Alexander Chee

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. — Edmund Burke

I am a down-to-earth gentleman who will never, under any circumstances, resemble some sort of romantic hero like Mr Darcy. — Samantha Tonge

...the thunder from Down Under that gives you the second-most-powerful surge that can flow through your body. — AC/DC

I said "show me the ladder, that I may climb up to heaven '
He said "your head is the ladder, bring your head down under your feet — Rumi

We are not allowed to have hearts, under penalty of being hooted down. — Alexandre Dumas-fils

I sat down and knitted for some time - my usual resource under discouraging circumstances. — Isabella L. Bird

Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again, — Michele Bachmann

I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do that in Cranhill.' — Billy Boyd

I need to be more under control. I need to calm down a little bit so I can cut down on the little silly errors I get. — Delmon Young

Turns out rolling your eyes in a bar when 'Land Down Under' plays is like someone belching during the Star Spangled Banner in America. — Elle Lothlorien

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee.
The teevee debilitates our culture. — Inga Muscio

The sun's rays don't bother me. No they cast down such a wonderful heat. Masking beauty, by a terrible fate. — Sara Quin

The government shut down 12 times under Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill. It was only shut down twice while I was speaker. — Newt Gingrich

The cup that went down under has now come up again. — Sue Simmons

Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records — Shiv Khera

The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert.
Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last.
Even the sun goes down. — Guy Gavriel Kay

One of my earlier films is 'Quigley Down Under.' That was early on in my career, and that was horsey. — Ben Mendelsohn

There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it. — Franz Kafka

I want to go to Thunder from Down Under." She wiggles her eyebrows up and down. "I — Jacob Chance

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool. — Mary Catherine Bateson

Squirmed under the pressure. The leader squatted down and sorted through the — Lee Child

In the immemorial style of young men under pressure, they decided to lie down for a while and waste time. — Michael Chabon

Dudley came waddling down the hall, his blond hair plastered flat to his fat head, a bow tie just visible under his many chins. — J.K. Rowling

The lake was a shield of beaten brass flung down in the valley under a full sun. — Jane Urquhart

So Tumpty tried hiding upside down, behind a pot plant, under a large cardboard box, with his eyes tightly closed. — Polly Dunbar

do not despair when you are down and under i will crown with my everlasting love — Shimmer Chinodya

Soon the two children will walk down Edgehill Road from the bus stop like burros under their knapsacks, — Elizabeth Alexander

Sound character is our greatest asset because it provides the power with which we may ride the emergencies of life instead of going down under them. — Napoleon Hill

Music helps to forget
This forsaken tomb,
That is my abode
Cellars down
Far below
Under the ground, ... — E.A. Bucchianeri

Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last. — E.T.A. Hoffmann

Rain came down in sheets. It had been a miserable spring. Already he despaired of ever again walking under an unclouded sky. — Sherry Thomas

Never lose your faith in the American Dream. She's a nation under God, and God has never let a good American down. — Michael Moriarty

Large Professor, none greater none fresher,
Won't fold under pressure ... grew up down the road from Fran Drescher. — Extra P

my oral sex skills are off the chart. I know all about getting dirty down under. Let me show you, pretty please? — Kylie Scott

Wiping the rivulet of sweat running down my ear with the bottom of my muscle shirt, I snuck a sniff under my pit. Whoa. Kill a moose — Julie Anne Peters