Top 100 Head For Quotes
#1. My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.
Russell Baker
#2. I could almost feel Meghan against me, shaking with sobs as she mourned her Winter prince. I could feel my arms around her as I whispered that it would be okay, that she still had me, and I would never leave. Ant then I wanted to kick myself in the head for thinking that
Julie Kagawa
#3. Oh, yes. I've known kisses so narcotic they made my eyes roll back in my head. For a few weeks one winter I walked around feeling like I had a miniature sun in my heart.
Tim Kreider
#4. Well, have you a tongue in your head?' 'I have,' responded Hugo, 'but I was never one to give my head for washing.' 'You're not such a fool as you look,' commented his lordship.
Georgette Heyer
#5. I wore a GoPro camera on my head for all three of my boys.
Nick Woodman
#6. I didn't leave Wall Street because the work was against my nature - I do have a pretty good head for numbers. I left because I had this love for writing.
Chang-rae Lee
#7. When I weed, I like to get off into my own head. For one thing, my wife plants and I have trouble telling which plants are weeds and which are my favorite plants. So I tend to hop around and grab the weeds that I know are weeds. So I don't weed all that linearly. I tend to weed haphazardly.
Roy Blount Jr.
#8. My characters live inside my head for a long time before I actually start a book. They become so real to me, I talk about them at the dinner table as if they are real. Some people consider this weird. But my family understands.
Judy Blume
#9. I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.
Ruth Rendell
#10. Cutting one side of your head for a few months is not a big deal compared with what other people have to deal with in the world. Plus, hair grows back.
Natalie Dormer
#11. Valek leaned back in his chair and said to me, "I don't think I would have made it past the audition,Yelena. I probably would have set my hair on fire by this point."
"What's a singed head for the sake of art?" I teased. He laughed.
Maria V. Snyder
#12. I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.
Jenny Colgan
#13. I fished inside my head for something, some way to prove it. And those strange words floated to the surface of my need. In as clear a
voice as l could, l looked at Prospero and said, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.
Jonathan Maberry
#14. Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.
Katerina Stoykova Klemer
#15. I yearn for empty thoughts and silence in my head. For someone to sit down beside me, to hold my hand and take away the cold sting of loneliness that creeps under my skin like an English winter.
Malia Zaidi
#16. I'll do anything. I'll shave my head for the right job. I'm partial to my facial hair, I guess, but I also enjoy doing something where I look totally different, which is kind of the reason why I've always worn long hair. I can really change my look radically by getting rid of it.
Sam Elliott
#17. Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks.
People go west when all bets are off: a reputation in ruins, a love gone wrong. When they need to save their sorry souls, folks head for the frontier.
Karen Hines
#18. My writing process is such that a story will be in my head for awhile, and I'll start making notes on my computer. I create character sheets that include a character's past, fears, goals and ambitions.
Tracie Peterson
#19. Try fighting with your head for a change ...
it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.
Harper Lee
#20. Sometimes I realize that those things that make me feel like a dickwad usually pop into my head for the best reasons
Emily Snow
#21. I lost my head for a little while.
John Mayer
#22. It was one thing not to want a husband, I realized; it was quite another not to need one for the roof over your head, for your meat and bread, for the shoes on your feet and the coat on your back.
Margo Lanagan
#23. You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change.
-Atticus Finch
Harper Lee
#24. Head for the moon. If you miss, you will still be among the stars
David Gandy
#25. It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.
Gilbert Ryle
#26. I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.
Elisha Cuthbert
#27. Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day.
Raymond E. Feist
#28. The man who doesn't relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on.
Elbert Hubbard
#29. - No, no ... She shook her head for emphasis. No.
His lips twitched.
- One 'no' is enough, darling.
Lisa Kleypas
#30. No one's gonna sympathize when we crash, they'll say you hit what you head for, you get what you ask.
Ani DiFranco
#31. I can tell by now that you are wondering whether I can be trusted as a narrator. Why didn't I dump Inge and head for a Singles Bar? The answer is her breasts.
Jeanette Winterson
#32. It's a typical story: you think of something, it stays in the back of your head for a while, and then you finally do it.
Julie Delpy
#33. Be well advised what ye put in his head, for ye shall never pull it out again.
Alison Weir
#34. I would ask him to forgive me, for being his mother and never knowing what was going on inside his head, for not being able to help him, for not being the person that he could confide in." When
Sue Klebold
#35. That feeling I get when I go looking in my head for a word that isn't there, as if someone must have come and taken it in the night.
Neil Gaiman
#36. There should be a law, I thought. If you support a war, if you think it's worth the price, that's fine, but you have to put your own precious fluids on the line. You have to head for the front and hook up with an infantry unit and help spill the blood.
Tim O'Brien
#37. Boxing is a buzz, but I went into it to make a living. I wasn't going to go into the ring and get punched in the head for the fun of it.
Frank Bruno
#38. I been starin' at the back a Jimmy Nelson's head for four grades now and I been noticin' how his blond hair curls against the skin on his neck and the birthmark shaped like a half-moon I wanna press my fingernail into.
Brooke Warra
#39. From pink water bottles for breast cancer to dumping a bucket of ice water on your head for neuromuscular conditions, it seems we're bombarded by requests to be 'aware' of one thing or another.
Stella Young
#40. All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.
David Baldacci
#41. I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me. I wanted to leave the country, head for London and see what the world had to offer.
Alison Jackson
#42. Oleanders have attractive flowers, they decorate nature beautifully, but they are poisonous; and a woman is an oleander; it's all right to watch her once in a while, but then you must walk away without touching her; if you ever try to taste her even once, you'll head for hell!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. Did anyone wonder if someone hit his head for him?
K.J. Charles
#44. Sapphires for my bride-to-be and a severed head for the king my brother," said Duke Richard cheerfully. "As St Paul pointed out, gifts may vary but the spirit is the same. In the present instance, a spirit of goodwill.
Reay Tannahill
#45. Come on," I said to Karrin. "Head for the other boat."
"Should we?" she asked. "That Erlking guy seems a little..do-it-yourselfy.
Jim Butcher
#46. Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.
LeBron James
#47. Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!
Nick Cave
#48. It's been in the back of my head for five or six years, but more on the local level to get involved and try to create a better environment for my children and grandchildren.
Jon Runyan
#49. There were tough thoughts battling one another inside his head for the right to become reality.
S.A. Tawks
#50. If you're in somebody's head for 12 hours a day for four weeks, it's like your brain actually wires itself to start thinking that way.
Brie Larson
#51. I'm giving you fair warning, Mr. Cormel. If you bespell Rachel, I'll open up your head for the sunshine to come in." - Jenks
Kim Harrison
#52. It matters./It doesn't matter. Build space in your head for this paradox. Build as much space for it as you can. Build even more space. You will need it. And then go deep within that space - as far in as you can possibly go - and make absolutely whatever you want to make. It's
Elizabeth Gilbert
#53. Girls are removing pubic hair before fully having it. They would say I feel cleaner, it's for me, but then they'd say if a boy saw pubic hair down there they'd head for the hills.
Peggy Orenstein
#55. [Worshipping God] is like fellating someone who intermittently stubs fags out on your head for no good reason. And we all know how unsatisfying that can be.
Charlie Brooker
#56. Sometimes I think being an actor is like being a dog for a director; it's like they throw a stick, and you want to fetch it and bring it back to them. You want a pat on the head for it.
Joel Edgerton
#57. When I'm in a blue mood, I head for the kitchen. I turn the pages of my favorite cookbooks, summoning the prospective joyful noise of a shared meal. I stand over a bubbling soup, close my eyes, and inhale. From the ground up, everything about nourishment steadies my soul.
Barbara Kingsolver
#58. Despite different cultures, middle-class youth all over the world seem to live their lives as if in a parallel universe. They get up in the morning, put on their Levi's and Nikes, grab their caps and backpacks, and Sony personal CD players and head for school.
Naomi Klein
#59. Know that I've forgotten precisely nothing; but I've driven it all out of my head for a time, even the memories
until I've radically improved my circumstances. Then ... then you'll see, I'll rise from the dead!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#60. I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'
Quiara Alegria Hudes
#61. When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
#62. I think being able to be malleable is a great weapon and I'm a very, very good strategist. I create the most amazing strategies in my head and I have created the most extraordinary strategies in my head for my career ...
Salma Hayek
#63. A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians..
Garry Kasparov
#64. That's how I work, whether with stories or novels - they start with an image that comes to me in a daydream, and a lot of times I'm walking around with these pictures in my head for awhile before I start writing.
Dan Chaon
#65. She was keeping her head for a reason, for a cause; and the labour of this detachment, with the labour of her forcing the pitch of it down, held them together in the steel hoop of an intimacy compared with which artless passion would have been but a beating of the air. Her
Henry James
#66. I think, you know, for me, whatever I need to slot into to make that music the best it can be or help the artists, or whoever I'm working with, achieve whatever vision they have in their head for a song.
Mark Ronson
#67. When are you coming back?" he'd demanded as he'd watched her throw her clothes into two suitcases and head for the door.
"When you get some help with your drinking." He didn't need any help. He drank fine without it.
B. J. Daniels
#68. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change
Harper Lee
#69. What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us all?
Saul Bellow
#70. You need a different checklist and different mental models for different companies. I can never make it easy by saying, 'Here are three things.' You have to derive it yourself to ingrain it in your head for the rest of your life.
Charlie Munger
#71. Being in a person's head for five months, where they're so hateful, is kind of exhausting.
James Norton
#73. Turn your head for me and I'll kiss you as a woman should be kissed.
Karen Marie Moning
#74. He cannot hold his wine; he has no head for it. Why, on no more than three glasses, for I absolutely poured him out no more, he was on the point of singing Yankee Doodle. Yankee Doodle, in a King's ship, upon my sacred honour!
Patrick O'Brian
#75. Meanwhile, me and Adrian will head for Atlanta, where everything will go smoothly and no one will get hurt, and everyone will have a productive time learning a great many useful things.
Cherie Priest
#76. No, you don't have to live inside my head. For every, just, insanely stupid thing I do or say, there are like fifty even worse ones that I just barely avoid doing or saying, just out of dumb luck.
Jesse Andrews
#77. I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.
Maggie Smith
#78. It hurts when it don't last, no easy way saying bye. So I'mma spread my wings and head for the sky.
Wiz Khalifa
#79. Get comfortable. You are gonna be in my head for a while.
Van Krishna
#80. Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.
Ricky Gervais
#81. Be still while I get up or I'll make an opening in your head for brains to leak in.
Dashiell Hammett
#82. Why do you fight it?" I whisper.
"Because this is wrong. I lost my head for a moment. I'd blame the alcohol but that would be a lie.
N. Michaels
#83. I watch the back of Abel's head for a moment before opening the door. Coming to him was the right thing to do, it always was. Abel is my other half. If ever there was someone to release me of a weak heart, it would be him.
Celia Mcmahon
#84. The work of poetry that it seemed she had been doing in her head for most of her life.
Alice Munro
#85. At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
Ethel Merman
#86. She liked red wine but had no head for it and after two glasses became a different person, giggling, gesticulating, talking without stopping, interrupting others, and, always, wanting to dance.
Salman Rushdie
#87. If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.
Martin Luther
#88. You could hollow out a big pumpkin and wear it on your head for the entire week of your birthday. This will allow you to get in touch with your Halloween emotions.
Jade Puget
#89. I try to just save a fresh, clear head for whoever I'm working with, so hopefully it's helpful that there's someone who doesn't have to sit in the editing room for 12 hours a day, and who's blinded by the massive footage and options that they have.
Judd Apatow
#90. The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better ports, seafarers head for a seamen's mission.
Rose George
#91. I try not to listen to other music. I have to keep my mind open for what's coming in as a songwriter. If I go into the gas station and pay for gas, whatever song was playing when I was in there is in my head for the next few days and I can't change the channel.
Mark Farner
#92. Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.
Jerry Spinelli
#93. If you're waiting for a special occasion to make your next trip happen, then consider this: The day you get off the couch and head for the airport, that's the special occasion.
Patricia Schultz
#94. We head for the horizon, on the plane of immanence, and we return with bloodshot eyes, yet they are the eyes of the mind.
Gilles Deleuze
#95. If some crazy idea stays in my head for long enough, then there's no fighting it. I just say, Okay, let's go.
Jeff Bridges
#96. If your great-great-great-grandfather wanted to read his book after dark, some poor soul had to crawl around in a whale's head for an afternoon.
Steven Johnson
#97. Quick! Head for the ground floor! We have to get out! We will die if we stay! The vampires are here!"
"Haven't you got a hug for me, Larten, old buddy?
Darren Shan
#98. . . . though if Fanshawe had not spoken in so unbecoming a way, Laurence would have liked to keep Carver out of it, as he knew the boy had a poor head for heights, which struck him as a grave impediment for an aviator.
Naomi Novik
#99. The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
Charles Caleb Colton
#100. Things taste sweeter when you have some hunger left to linger. You feel it hunting your head for buried things; digging into the fractures of your breath warm and greedy.
Bilal Tanweer
