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Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day. -- Alex Berenson
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
Golf is a better game played downhill. -- Jack Nicklaus
Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill. -- John Simon
A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. -- Robert A. Heinlein
You have to be a little crazy to be a downhill skier. -- Lindsey Vonn
I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs. -- Judah Friedlander
I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill. -- Gene Cernan
The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there. -- Scotty McCreery
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
I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill. -- Jon Heder
The thing about impressing your girlfriend is that when you do something like a private island in Fiji, it's all downhill from that point. -- Kevin Hart
There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since. -- Raymond E. Feist
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
A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been all downhill since then. -- Will Self
But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know. -- Enzo Ferrari
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
I guess I'm a semi-retired person. I work out of my house. I'm a skier in the winter - downhill and cross country. I have a place in Montana for the down-hilling. -- Greg LeMond
Sometimes it's hard to start, but once it gets going, once you reach the tipping point - usually between chapter seven and nine - then it's like hanging onto a large snowball as it hurtles downhill. -- Kerry Greenwood
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
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
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
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. -- Theodore White
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
I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people. -- Daniel Bruhl
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
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
Coasting only takes you downhill. -- Roger Crawford
Uphill, downhill, I like that. -- Peter Sagan
The only way to coast is downhill. -- Zig Ziglar
Yeah, after each of my downhill putts. -- Homero Blancas
I can still chase women, only downhill -- Bob Hope
The MS really started going downhill in 1990. -- Richard Pryor
There's only one direction you can coast-downhill. -- Brian Tracy
Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill. -- Garrison Keillor
You can't climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts. -- Zig Ziglar
Everything went downhill after Lillian [Gish] left me. -- D. W. Griffith
Our act started at the bottom and went downhill. -- Allan Sherman
A good sculpture can be rolled downhill without breaking. -- Michelangelo
The downhill path is easy, but there's no turning back.... -- Christina Rossetti
Never get satisfied. The minute you stop trying, you go downhill. -- Jack LaLanne
When religion stops talking about animals it will be all downhill. -- Carl Jung
The uphill climb is slow,but the downhill road is fast. -- John Wooden
It has been pretty much downhill ever since the 13th amendment -- Zach Braff
If the going is getting too easy, maybe you're going downhill! -- Max Frisch
Once the pathological low self-esteem goes, that's when things go downhill. -- Moby
Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them. -- Douglas Coupland
Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top. -- Tullian Tchividjian
Coffee is the highlight of my day. After coffee everything is downhill. -- Bill Simmons
Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill. -- Tom Clancy
Her singing reminds me of a cart coming downhill with the brake on. -- Thomas Beecham
I was fine, until I was born. And it's been downhill ever since. -- Peter Steele
Hiking up a hill is an ass kicker, going downhill is a little easier. -- Joe Teti
I'm forever gonna miss the start to the finish, the rush of racing downhill. -- Picabo Street
I like to hit it downhill, thats the way I was taught to run. -- Jamal Lewis
People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them. -- Cal Thomas
But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt. -- Sam Snead
Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there. -- Sloane Crosley
In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising. -- Madame de Stael
Just because the years are passing doesn't mean that the quality of our lives must automatically go downhill. -- Louise Hay
Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there. -- Jerry Spinelli
I hold the world speed record downhill, in a Rover. I think it was 17 kilometers per hour, downhill. -- Gene Cernan
Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way. -- Fred Hoyle
They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that. -- Lisa Jewell
The British philosopher Bertrand Russell said that philosophy went downhill after Democritus and did not recover until the Renaissance. -- Leon M. Lederman
I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way. -- Jonathan Alter
Players act like the floor is slanted; they run downhill on fast breaks and jog uphill when getting back on defense -- Tates Locke
When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left. -- Peter S. Beagle
Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly! -- Gregory Chaitin
Those who walk, run, or slide downhill eagerly would rather not think about the long, hard climb back up the hill again. -- Goswami Kriyananda
About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard - after that he went downhill very quickly. -- Milton Jones
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
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
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
You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest. -- Willi Unsoeld
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
Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can't quite keep up with gravity. -- Rainbow Rowell
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. -- Hermann Maier
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
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
I've gotten rid of the yips four times but they hang in there. You know those two-foot downhill putts with a break? I'd rather see a rattlesnake. -- Sam Snead
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
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
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
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
By following "the path of reverie"-a constantly downhill path-consciousness relaxes and wanders-and consequently becomes clouded. So it is never the right time, when one is dreaming, to "do phenomenology." -- Gaston Bachelard
For the moment, the snow is quite wet and soft. If it was hard or icy, it would be a perfect downhill for my style, because I could fight even harder. -- Hermann Maier
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
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
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
Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises. -- Dennis Prager
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
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
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
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

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