That path leads ever down into stagnation.
My career started slowly and then tapered off.
When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
I retired at 35 in '98 and thought, 'There's only one place to go, and that's downward.' I retired at a good level. I was at peace after 15 years - I was lucky to play that long.
'Tis pride that pulls the country down.
The people turn to a humane ruler as water flows downward.
I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'
For many young people mobility has turned into a bus down to the job centre.
Maybe being number one has got to me, because from there you can only go down.
Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.
The light that shined upon the summit now seems almost to shine at our feet.
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
Grace always runs downhill, meeting us at the bottom, not the top.
Unfortunately, when you're the king of the hill, there's really only one way to go, and that's down.
If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.
No no there wasn't any planned 14th season, we all saw the writing on the wall. The ratings had been going down and so fourth, that curve goes on every show and in everybody's life.
Everybody goes down to a least common denominator, and as a result, productivity goes down to zero. And we've seen that in every communist country around the world.
I am very careful not to wantonly encourage people to join my industry, or to aspire to work in TV. I am certain that, generally speaking, the wage pressure in the television news industry is downward.
It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.
Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!
I'd like to say I'd like to be as big as a Gwen or a Madonna, but I think those days of achieving that level are over. The media is bringing everybody down.
There is not one shred of evidence that the Internet has had any downward influence on North American or European newspaper circulation.
I've got everything I had 20 years ago, except now it's all lower.
I understand we're on our way to being a Third World country. Could we just stop at 'Second World' before we get there?
