Top 100 Your Head Down Quotes
#1. "I've done your dog. It's got nine eyes down the side, I made his head all square, 15 legs. What do you think of that?" "Fido looks a bit weird."
Eddie Izzard
#2. I'll keep my head down," Mally assured him. "I'll be careful."
"If anything happens
"
"If anything happens I'll tell you immediately."
Ivan seemed pleased at that and relaxed against a tree trunk.
"Good. I don't want your mother chasing me around Lenzar with a carving knife.
M.L. LeGette
#3. Emotions are like passing storms, and you have to remind yourself that it won't rain forever. You just have to sit down and watch it pour outside and then peek your head out when it looks dry.
Amy Poehler
#4. You only live once, life is really short.. don't let anything minuscule like that keep you down. Keep your head up.
Mitch Lucker
#5. The textbooks are dumbed down to the where your kid sister could probably read them, and the teacher go over and over and over the same stuff anyway, drilling it into your head so that they can ask you one hundred multiple-choice questions to get it all back out of you again.
Charles Benoit
#6. To be frank, my belief is if you just keep your head down and work, and you have the fortune to be successful, there really aren't moments that change you.
Mark Walter
#7. Keep your head down, work hard, and don't ever believe your own hype, because ... you just keep working.
Scott Eastwood
#8. Don't expect anything from anybody, work hard, put your head down, be good at what you do and good stuff will happen ...
Deborah Meaden
#9. I Anoint my tongue by fire. Every evil head rising up against me, I strike you down, in the name of Jesus, somersault from your body.
Ademola Adejumo
#10. Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.
Kel Mitchell
#11. Just reflecting on the fact that when the Universe punches you in the teeth, it never just lets you fall down. It kicks you in the ribs a couple of times and dumps mud on your head.
Ilona Andrews
#12. Logic doesn't always lead us down the right path. Logic tells us not to take chances. Not to chase after that risk. To ignore the what ifs. I guess part of growing up is deciding when to listen to your head...and when to listen to your heart.
Jenny B. Jones
#13. Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
Donald Rumsfeld
#14. I think every writer has got to direct. If you don't direct, you can't protect your work. The only way to ensure that it's going to be as close as possible to what you put down on paper - and what you see and hear in your head - is to do it yourself.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
#15. Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
Les Brown
#16. I mean, what
What if no one's watching
What if when we're dead
We are just dead
I mean, what
What if it's just us down here
What if God is just an idea
Someone put in your head
Ani DiFranco
#17. He licks his lips as his head tilts down toward me. My body goes wild. Frissons of electricity travel up and down my spine as the True Born leans down. His voice is silk in my ear. 'You're not with your parents now. No restrictions. How does that make you feel?
L.E. Sterling
#18. You have to be as light as you can be and not get weighed down and stuck in your emotion, stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to always be trying to elevate somehow.
Bill Murray
#19. In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference.
Dan Quayle
#20. Keep your head down. Mind your business and do the best job you can.
Bill Raftery
#21. The poor toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it - it might be sick.
J.K. Rowling
#22. The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you.
Phyllis Diller
#23. A story in your head isn't a story. It's just a daydream until you actually write it down. So write it down.
Andy Weir
#24. You take a shower, your head is up, far away from everything, lost in the clouds, but down in the tub, man, you know who you are.
Toby Barlow
#25. Atheism is not a conscious act of turning away from all gods. It is simply the final destination for those who think ... you will be pleased to discover that the sky does not fall down on your head ... if you still want to pray, you can (the success rate of your prayers is unlikely to change).
Guy P. Harrison
#26. There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray.
Lee Trevino
#27. She said, "Look down at your chest."
I held the cell phone to my ear as I bend my head. Two red dots, quivering slightly, danced right over my heart.
"You are one second away from death," said the caller.
Jonathan Maberry
#28. The deal is this. You be the hero. Come down here. Unarmed. Come inside with your hands on your head. I'll let everybody go. Then I'll blow your fucking head off. Sir. How's that for a deal? You buy it?
Richard Bachman
#29. Well I mean I just sit at the piano and maybe figure out some harmony or melody or both. Sometimes you can hear it in your head. Sometimes you don't always have to write it down. You just write it down so you can remember it.
Roy Hargrove
#30. Every so often, you have to do a show that makes you walk to your car with your head down, wondering what you're doing with your life. It's good for you, as long as you're not feeling that way every night.
Lauren Lapkus
#31. At this level almost everyone has the physical tools to be the best. It comes down to a few things: how bad you want it, what you do when things get hard, and whether you are able to stay focused amid turmoil, challenge, chaos and demands. It's all in your head and in your heart.
Michelle Akers
#32. I think the way I sort of approach it is, you just sort of keep your head down and focus on what you are doing and making shows that people will want to see on Thursday night.
Betsy Beers
#33. Indelible, adj.
That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising. I knew I would never mimic it. That one gesture would be yours forever.
David Levithan
#34. I can fake a smile. I can force a laugh. I can dance and play the part of that's what you ask. Give you all I am. But I am only human. I bleed when I fall down. I'm only human I crash and I break down. Your words in my head. Knives in my heart. You build me up and then I fall apart.
Christina Perri
#35. Harry, just go down to the lake tomorrow, right, stick your head in, yell at the merpeople to give back whatever they've nicked, and see if they chuck it out. Best you can do, mate.
J.K. Rowling
#36. Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it.
Richard Sibbes
#37. After more than two decades here, I know that kindness is not a value that's encouraged. It's often seen as a weakness. Instead, the culture encourages keeping your head down, minding your own business, and never letting yourself be vulnerable.
Dan Gediman
#38. Stop, look, investigate, ask the right questions, come to the right conclusions and have the courage to act on them and see what happens. The first steps may bring the roof down on your head, but soon the commotion will clear and there will be peace and joy.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#39. He has no idea what it was like to grow up in the South, where you had to hold your head down.
Fred Allen
#40. My long, wavy brown hair cascaded down my back. Thank God for my Puerto Rican daddy and his thick head of hair. My mama's hair won't grow past her ears. "If you don't stop checking yourself out, I'm gonna superglue your damn eyes shut.
Kris Bell
#41. They say that time slows down in your head at the moments of great stress,
James Ponti
#42. What I'm saying, my little wall flower, is desire becomes your enemy when your mate is being a butt head. And Decebel is in mega, super-sized butt head mode. Do ya feel me? You see where I'm going with this or do I have to sit you down and have the birds and the bees conversation?
Quinn Loftis
#43. Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
#44. Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mean with that?
(I think that... once upon a time.... .you had something in your head more than a candy!)
Deyth Banger
#45. Stories are wonderful, enjoyable, and scrumptious things. In the old days, they were served on thin plates called pages. You ate them with your eyes. And they didn't go down to your tummy, like normal food. No, they went into a dream machine inside your head.
Nury Vittachi
#46. Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.
Edmund Vance Cooke
#47. Right before I start the putter back, I think about making solid contact. This brings your attention to the back of the ball and helps keep your head still at impact, which is a must. Many amateurs take a peek down the line too soon, and that can cause all sorts of mis-hits.
Ernie Els
#48. I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely takes place in your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes
Robin Sloan
#49. They stuff people's heads down the toilet the first day at Stonewall," he told Harry. "Want to come upstairs and practice?" "No, thanks," said Harry. "The poor toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it - it might be sick." Then
J.K. Rowling
#50. Plow through the weeds. Go to the auditions and go to the meetings and be on time. Stop looking to the left or the right. Keep your head down and keep moving.
Tika Sumpter
#51. God, Jack, it makes you want to go out and convert the whole damn world to homosexuality," she told him. "Just so you can walk down the street with your head up. "Maybe
Lily Tomlin Ann Bannon
#52. Phaedra shook her head. If your people mean no offense, they should not speak their thoughts out loud in front of their children, Tesadora. Because it will be their children who come to slaughter us one day, all because of careless words passed down by their elders who meant no harm.
Melina Marchetta
#53. A key ingredient to achieving your goals is to make sure your goals are totally congruent with who you are as a person. Your head and hearts desire must match. It's such an important step in goal achievement and if we miss it, we can end up travelling a long way down the wrong path!
Rachael Bermingham
#54. If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.
Hannah Whitall Smith
#55. How do you feel?" I asked, trying to bring my heart rate down. It wasn't having any of it.
"How's your head?"
"My head's fine," he said, winding his arms around my back. "It's my goddamn heart that's about ready to bust something.
Nicole Williams
#56. We tend to harp on little things, or worry about something, when, really, it's just not that important. If you have a roof over your head, and you're healthy, and your family is healthy, that's all that matters. Don't let the little things get you down.
Asher Roth
#57. If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.
Stefan Heym
#58. I wish I could pick you up sometimes, turn you upside down, shake all the bad things out of your head, and put you back up the
right way again.
Alexander Masters
#59. I hate this guy," Ari muttered, keeping his head down
"There's a club," I told him. "The Haters of ter Borcht Club. Have you gotten your badge yet?
James Patterson
#60. May you never lay your head down, without a hand to hold. May you never make your bed out in the cold.
John Martyn
#61. Is the rain getting the mud off of me?"
She tilted her head. A hint of laughter crept into her eyes. "Actually it's running down your face in a rather dramatic fashion. I think you'd even manage to scare an alligator."
"Before you start laughing at me, you might take a look at yourself.
Christine Feehan
#62. He said that life boils down to standing in line to get shit dropped on your head. Everyone's got a place in the queue, you can't get out of it, and just when you start to congratulate yourself on surviving your dose of shit, you discover that the line is actually circular.
Scott Lynch
#63. My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, 'Happiness is your own responsibility.' That's probably what I quote from her and live by the most.
Jennifer Garner
#64. Don't look up at the mountain. Keep your head down, and take the next step.
Peter James West
#65. A proper saute pan, for instance, should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent - the victim's head or your pan - then throw that pan right in the trash.
Anthony Bourdain
#66. When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#68. That was it. Owen grabbed his arm, yanked it toward him, and head-butted the punk. He went down with a yelp and Owen stood up, kicking his chair away behind him. "Respect your elders, lad!"
The inn got quiet the way things will when shit gets real.
Kevin Hearne
#69. In competition, everything is very well planned in advance and very well detailed. You just stick to the plan, keep your head down and be as disciplined as possible in every aspect, whether sleep, recovery or the intensity of your training. And it's all recorded; the data is analysed.
Victoria Pendleton
#71. You could put your confusion and upset and worries into whatever book you were reading. You could sort of set them down in there, and you could come out with your head on a little straighter. I don't why stories worked that way, but they did.
Deb Caletti
#72. At the end of the day, you have a job to do, and if you don't do your job, you're going to get fired. You just have to kind of put your head down and do it.
Chris Pine
#73. So keep your head down, and none of them will bother you. Though Lucien - he could do with someone snapping at him, if you've the courage for it." I didn't, and when I went to ask more about whom I should try to avoid, she had already finished with my hair and opened the door to the hall.
Sarah J. Maas
#74. You'll grow up soon. I can't wait to see the girl who makes the player settle down. Damn, you're in for a serious shock when you meet the girl who turns your head. You won't know what's hit you; it's gonna be hilarious to watch.
Kirsty Moseley
#75. Do the work, enjoy the work, take it seriously, don't take yourself seriously and keep your head down!
Tom Hiddleston
#76. What you have in your head, put down on paper. The head is a fragile vessel.
Dmitri Shostakovich
#77. The day it comes out, there's already things that you start to go, 'Oh, I should have done that a little differently.' You start to make a list in your head. I actually write things down
what I'm going to do next time.
Howie Day
#78. Lay down your head, and close your sleepy eyes, and when again they open, the sun will rise.
Suzanne Collins
#79. How do you keep all the balls you got dancing in the air from crashing down on your fucking head, Rousseau?"
"Centuries of practice?
Heather R. Blair
#80. Keep your head down, fella. Do your job. Sell the product, write the contracts, negotiate the loans, attend the closings, bank your share and fatten the Keogh accordingly.
John D. MacDonald
#81. If I have a bad hair day, I just think, 'Well, it will be an OK hair day tomorrow. Just put your head down and go.'
Mitt Romney
#82. Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain ... Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.
Chris Darwin
#83. If that poem idea is in your head NOW, write it down. Right now. Or lose it. For when it's gone, it's gone forever...
Nick Armbrister
#84. Whispers are rare, dangerous, and powerful, even among the Silvers, even in the capital. The rumors about them vary, but it boils down to something simple and chilling: they can enter your head, read your thoughts, and control your mind.
Victoria Aveyard
#85. It's like one of those dreams that changes you. You keep some of the dream forever, and you know things down deep inside yourself, because it happened to you, but when you go looking for details they kind of just slip out of your head.
Neil Gaiman
#86. Take off your dress. Leave the pumps on. Lie down with your hands above your head, don't move ... oh sweet sugar snaps!
Robin Bielman
#87. As a black man, you have to keep your head down. You have to keep yourself steady. You have to follow every rule that's ever been written, plus a few that have always remained unspoken.
Kekla Magoon
#88. Put your head down and work as hard as you can because there is always someone better out there.
Brian McBride
#89. It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,' but that's the worthless, easy path; that's a quitter's way out.
Sarah Palin
#90. And you should hear the music. Incredible, amazing music, like nothing you've ever heard, music that almost takes your head off, you know? That makes you want to scream and jump up and down and break stuff and cry ...
Lauren Oliver
#91. I don't force it. If you don't have an idea and you don't hear anything going over and over in your head, don't sit down and try to write a song. You know, go mow the lawn ... My songs speak for themselves.
Neil Young
#92. If darkness surrounds you, look for the light. If you can't see it, raise your head up. You may be surrounded by darkness but it does not cover you on top. Let the light shine down on you and let it lead the way out of darkness.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#93. It's an illusion I've noticed before
words on a page are like oxygen to a petrol engine, firing up ghosts. It only lasts while the words are in your head. After you put down the paper or pen, the pistons fall lifeless again.
Elizabeth Wein
#94. Let your head climb back down through your throat and into your body so it can see just how good you look when you're not compared to anything.
Buddy Wakefield
#96. They had a silent staring contest, but Percy didn't back down. When he and Annabeth started dating, his mother had drummed it into his head: It's good manners to walk your date to the door. If that was true, it had to be good manners to walk her to the start of her epic solo death quest.
Rick Riordan
#97. I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing.
Victoria Wood
#98. Ole Anderson! Layin' down could not take me out with a steel toed boot! Could not put me away with a steel toed boot! And I'm gonna say it right now and get it through your head ... BOTH OF
YA (Ole Anderson and Ivan Koloff) THIS THANG WILL NEVER BE OVAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Dusty Rhodes
#99. Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down. - Mrs. Brown
Barbara Kingsolver
#100. Keep your head up in failure, and your head down in success.
Jerry Seinfeld
