Top 1200 Heads Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

At the age of two-and-a-half, I was run down by a truck. I had gone rogue in the house while my mother was bathing my sister. I went outside and met a friend who promised me candy. Afterward, I walked back by myself across the road where I fell down in the street. A 15-year-old boy delivering bread struck me down.

I'm very reactive, I think. I'm down to throw down with people. Online, of course. Not in person.

The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.

The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

We would spend every morning drinking rum and Cokes or Red Stripes for breakfast, to get our heads in the right space. It's a wonder we got stuff done.

Whether I win or not, it won't be down to inexperience and hopefully it won't be down to some sort of mental misjudgment.

Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But when I got there, the Rat Pack were all in the kitchen laughing their heads off.

I wouldn't say I'm addicted, but I never, ever skip yoga. I use it to calm down and slow down.

Despite deficit rains, we have been successful in bringing down the inflation down from double digits to 3-4%

I see people allowing their lives to diminish, to become shallow, so they can't enjoy the deep wells of experience. Maybe it's always been this way, when the heart tends to shut down. If only the heart shut down and there were no repercussions, it would be O.K., but when the heart shuts down, the whole system goes into a kind of despair that is intolerable.

The very flag of freedom that waves over our heads is formed from material cultivated by slaves, on soil moistened with their blood drawn from them by the whip of a republican taskmaster!

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

I'm not the guy to get beat down when I shouldn't have gotten beaten down.

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.

Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.

With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.

It's easy to let yourself down - it's tough to let other people down.

You look out on the street, and everyone has their heads in their phones. Nobody's really looking up at the sky or the buildings and taking the day in. I try to be conscious of it, but everybody falls prey to it.

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.

Bull markets go to people's heads. If you're a duck on a pond, and it's rising due to a downpour, you start going up in the world. But you think it's you, not the pond.

Hey, if you decided to tear up the town, you can always use the leftover bread from my breakfast in place of your cane. I'm pretty sure it's hard enough to bust heads.

It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads as ours, already streaked with silver threads.

One by one, the others all nodded their heads again, as if we were talking about having a spring picnic instead of going up against the deadliest woman in Ashland and all of her men.

We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.

These people haven't seen the last of my face. If I go down, I'm going down standing up.

I have always been a left-winger and an outsider. I loved being that. I was perfectly cheerful with that role. Then suddenly, you're one of the talking heads on 'Nightline,' and you think you must have sold out.

I will say 'I love you' in the same way on any medium. We have this hierarchy in our heads between TV and films, and I know that for a fact because I have experienced it first-hand.

A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

They don’t need walls and water to keep the prisoners in, not when they’re trapped inside their own heads, incapable of a single cheerful thought. Most go mad within weeks - Lupin

I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time.

When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet.

A microphone pack once fell down my knickers and nearly pulled my pants down.

I was lucky enough to be down at the studio the day John Paul Jones came down.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.

I think it mostly comes down to trying to align with people who are down with a mission and will bring optimism.

I think I had the smallest handle around. When I got my bats, I even trimmed them down. I used to scrape them. Some years later when I started getting older, I used to start with a 33 and in the summer it got down to 31 and then probably in September got down to 30.

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

The heads (Plural) of the Gods appointed one God for us; and when you take that view of the subject, it sets one free to see all the beauty, holiness and perfection of the Gods.

I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they have never been on a horse. They ought to have their heads examined, really. It's a joke. But, let's face it, we live in a fantasy world.

When every high school graduate can spell the word, 'inauguration,' let's put lampshades on our heads and listen to his speeches until Obama's voice gives out.

Talking Heads, for me and Chris, was a very personal thing that we shared with a lot of people. In a way, I'm glad it's over, because it allows us to move beyond the restrictions that followed.

Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.

There's nothing like sitting down and playing music with somebody. It breaks down all the barriers in life.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

I wish to strengthen the hand of the Prime Minister and the heads of the security agencies in the unrelenting battle for our right to maintain normal daily life in every place in Israel.

Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

My wheelchair is like the Cadillac of wheelchairs; it goes up and down and back, and I can lay down in it.

As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down.

When I let my hair down, I just let it down. It's more comfortable in my helmet.

As American productivity, once the exuberant engine of national wealth, has dipped to an embarrassingly uncompetitive low, Americans have shaken their heads: the country's old work ethic is dead.

I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.