Quotes About Downhill

From the moment you become a spectator, everything is downhill. It is a life that ends before the cheering and the shouting die.

There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.

To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.

Ski racing, especially downhill, is a dangerous activity and there are many accidents. It would be really too bad to lose everything because of a crash.

It was the most fun I've ever had on a movie. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I was living in New York, and I really enjoyed acting at the time. Also, it's funny because that was also the time when I went downhill.

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.

The backside of mountain is a fight against human nature, he said. You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

You have more zeal than good taste, Martín. The disease afflicting you has a name, and that is Grand Guignol : it does to drama what syphilis does to your privates. Getting it might be pleasurable, but from then on it's all downhill.

Piss runneth downhill, and Pay-Day is Saturday, -now you're a qualified Fence-runner.

When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill.

Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed.

If I were going uphill, I was relatively happy since I would sooner or later be going downhill. Whereas, if I were going downhill, I wasn't all that happy because I knew I would eventually have to be going uphill.

God bless Hollywood and all that it stands for, but, you know, people tend to peak in their 40s, and then it's all downhill from there.

In journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up

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.

The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.

The road went ever more steeply downhill. Overhead, the branches of the trees intertwined. It was a still, windless morning, cloudy and damp.

I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead. I wish she'd tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as you're ever going to. Look around. It's all downhill from here.

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.

I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs.

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.

My muscles were able to fit themselves to my bike, they actually liked it: muscles are tractable and learn tricks fast. But racing downhill is a matter of nerves, and from the very start my nerves have thought: to hell with you and your bicycle racing.

Life-shortening though it might be, no way in clicking heck was I missing out on the zoomy reward for all my Alp-ascending toil. Going fast downhill is kind of the whole point of cycling; it's what makes it better than walking. Momentum

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.