Head Scratching Quotes

#1. When I first did the book on gasoline stations, people would look at it and say, Are you kidding or what? Why are you doing this? In a sense, that's what I was after: I was after the head-scratching.

Edward Ruscha

#2. Evening, lads." The redhead curled her fingers around the back of Sullivan's neck and pulled his head in for a quick kiss. "Hey, baby, I missed you." It took a few head-scratching seconds to realize that he was looking at Isabel Roma.

Elle Kennedy

#3. The arts teach and moralise by their beauty alone, not by translating a philosophical or social formula. For the truly artistic person, painting has itself as it's purpose, which is quite enough.

Theophile Gautier

#4. We don't just get our choice; we get the consequence that choice creates.

Melody Beattie

#5. One of the few things my father says when he's had a few that I agree with is that kids don't have much balls in this generation. Some of them are trying to start the revolution by bombing U.S. government washrooms, but none of them are throwing Molotov cocktails at the Pentagon.

Stephen King

#6. Call it a curse, or just call me blessed, if you can't handle my worst, you ain't getting my best

Nicki Minaj

#7. Warren Buffett summed up the conventional view with his usual pith: "Gold gets dug out of the ground ... we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it ... Anyone from Mars would be scratching their head."2

George Gilder

#8. If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones.

Peter Deunov

#9. Art must not serve might.

Karel Capek

#10. If I were God, I would just be up there scratching my head, thinking, 'What the hell am I supposed to do with this?' For everyone helping an old lady across the street, there's someone else bludgeoning a person to death. And sometimes they're the same. How can He separate us all out?

Michael Shannon

#11. The Paramount executives were so pleased with Sunset Boulevard that they asked me to do a publicity tour.

Gloria Swanson

#12. he didn't look as good as Piper had last night after she'd suddenly been transformed.

Rick Riordan

#13. In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits.

Lee Iacocca

#14. This whole sort of 'war on women' sort of thing, I'm scratching my head because if there was a war on women, I think they won.

Rand Paul

#15. Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.

Steven Morrissey

#16. We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and contact with nature. You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.

James Balog

#17. I'm not supposed to know what's going on. But I can tell you this, I won't be standing around scratching my head like Coach Johnson in that Denorex commercial.

John Avery

#18. When my pop career was over, I was scratching my head, thinking, "God, how am I going to do something after I'm forty?" I was in my mid-thirties, thinking I was on the scrap heap.

Nick Lowe

#19. [Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

Warren Buffett

#20. Thanks for working your tail off." Leglin turned his head to check his hindquarters. "My tail is attached." I chuckled, scratching behind both of his ears. "It's a saying, bub.

Gayla Drummond

#21. Pregnant. You come to see me for one weekend, and here

Paullina Simons

#22. I'm a really honest person.

Billy Corgan

#23. It is easy to forget, not that we ever should, that everything in this world is an accident, including the origin of life itself, plus the accumulation of riches. We should show more respect for nature, not less. An accident isn't necessarily ever over.

"Scratching The Head

Diane Williams

#24. It is not the obstacles that is the mountain ;but it is our lack of knowledge of how to deal with the obstacles and how to overcome it

Sunday Adelaja

#25. I can see it now: me holding a map, scratching my head, trying to figure out how I ended up on Venus.

Andy Weir

#26. So that was an important part of the process and strangely, early on, we started to realize, in that respect, we were successful in what we were trying to do, which is make a film that everybody would be able come out and not be scratching their head at all.

Bryan Burk

#27. I wasn't really terribly familiar with the Beatles when I met George. They were just emerging. They certainly weren't as big as they became later on. I just knew them as a pop group, and that's all. I was keener on George as a man and a person, as opposed to someone in a band.

Pattie Boyd

#28. She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#29. There is a voice in my head that is only silenced by the scratching of my pen

Jessica-Lynn Barbour