Heads Quotes

#1. Ragweed,wild oat,vetch,butcher grass,invaginate volunteer beans,all heads gently nodding in a morning breeze like a mother's soft hand on your cheek ...

David Foster Wallace

#2. My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.

Charles Baxter

#3. I never cared for red headed men. I think they look like shrimp boiled to peel.

Anita Diamant

#4. So, say, when they're out in their little boats and they hear voices in the night, they forget whatever destination they had in mind and they go tearing straight towards the sound, screaming their heads off.

Simon Spurrier

#5. The door to opportunity is marked push but the gateway to dreams is marked relentless prep fiend & OCD-heads only.

Ace Antonio Hall

#6. He has Lightbringer. He talks of heads upon the walls of Winterfell. He knows about the spearwives and their number." He knows about Mance Rayder. "No. There is truth in there.

George R R Martin

#7. I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

Charles Bukowski

#8. 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.

Charles Stross

#9. A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

Jane Austen

#10. Too many people were obsessed with their heads and were alienated from their bodies, Perls believed, adding: We have to lose our minds and come to our senses.

Gay Talese

#11. A married couple never seem so married as when viewed from the back seat of a motor car, talking quietly together in the front. Polly and Marcus might have been in their bedroom already, so soft and intimate their converse sounded to me, as I sat there alertly mute behind the backs of their heads

John Banville

#12. Our heads are filled with 'knowledge', a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.

Idries Shah

#13. I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.

Ogwo David Emenike

#14. To be a true poet is to become God.
I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven's Gate. 'Piss, shit,' I said. 'Asshole motherfucker, goddamn shit goddamn. Cunt. Pee-pee cunt. Goddamn!'
They shook their heads and smiled, and walked away. Great poets are rarely understood in their own day.

Dan Simmons

#15. We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of our newspapers or is featured on news programs because of its lack of sensationalism, the problem exists in massive proportions and must be defeated.

Bruce Davison

#16. Every team that plays us plays above their heads. That's because of me.

Shaquille O'Neal

#17. Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and
follows a meaning, a higher purpose for life? For a thousand
years we have scrabbled after fish heads, but now we have a
reason to live - to learn, to discover, to be free!

Richard Bach

#18. Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush tried to begin discussions on Social Security reform, Democrats ridiculed and demonized him and told seniors he was after their nest eggs.

David Limbaugh

#19. Life doesn't have to be a freeform stream of consciousness, where any thought that comes into our heads is entertained.

Sheila Wray Gregoire

#20. We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)

Elie Wiesel

#21. Here a few poor and stunted flowers stood with drooping heads, like a convent of consumptive girls, waiting for a ray of sunlight to dry out their leaves already half-rotten with the damp.

Theophile Gautier

#22. You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That's of course not true. But they're hammering that into the voters' heads.

James Hansen

#23. Hippopotami should not have human hands and carry torches ... men should not have the heads of crocodiles ...

H.P. Lovecraft

#24. Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn't build the future. The past is our strength, but it risks becoming our ruin if we walk with our heads turned backwards.

Matteo Renzi

#25. Stand-up comedy and comedy in general is the ultimate form of free speech, because you get to poke holes in all the pretentious bubbles politicians and pundits and popes and pretenders try to float over our heads.

Denis Leary

#26. A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place to settle down in or as a comfortable snuggery in which to enjoy ourselves. I hope that if ever they, our soldiers, do settle down God will burn their barracks over their heads!

Catherine Booth

#27. Climate deniers are clearly the fringe group and need to see a proctologist to find their heads.

Vinod Khosla

#28. She wondered if seeds ever resented the sun, knowing it would shine with no quarter and give them no choice but to push their heads up out of the safety of the hard, hard ground and bloom.

Julie Anne Long

#29. In the animal kingdom, lions, tigers and bears - the predators - have closely spaced eyes. Giraffes, rabbits, doves - the preyed upon - have eyes more widely spaced and oriented toward the sides of their heads, because they need their peripheral vision to survive.

Patricia Cornwell

#30. There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It's something one is born with and stuck with. It's not something you make a decision about.

Charles Simic

#31. The women's movement, not only here in the U.S., but worldwide, is bigger and stronger than ever before and in places where it has never been. It has arms. It has legs. And most importantly, it has heads.

Bella Abzug

#32. What the fuck are you talking about?" I asked, wondering if I was in some crazy surrealist movie, wandering from telepathic sheriffs to homosexual assassins, to nympho lady Masons, to psychotic pirates, according to a script written in advance by two acid-heads and a Martian humorist.

Robert Shea

#33. When Aquatics are overwhelmed, they seek out the tallest object in view, lie on their backs, put their heads against it and look up. The ritual is called litill, and its purpose is to remind believers that they are actually quite small and, therefore, so are their problems.

Andrew Kaufman

#34. I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

Mayer Hawthorne

#35. Graphic Design is the communication framework through which these messages about what the world is now, and what we should aspire to. It's the way they reach us. The designer has an enormous responsibility. Those are the people, you know, putting their wires into our heads

Rick Poynor

#36. Nick's cell phone rings at ten A.M., and I can tell by his voice that it is Go. He sounds springy, boyish, the way he always does when he talks to her. The way he used to sound with me. He heads into the bedroom and shuts

Gillian Flynn

#37. In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.

Jonathan Swift

#38. The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.

Daphne Du Maurier

#39. A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.

John Lydon

#40. Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous notion that activity rather than contemplation is the object of life.

John Cowper Powys

#41. I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record [2016]. I'm very, very ... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately.

Patrick Stump

#42. What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

George Bernard Shaw

#43. There's ten stuffed heads in my trophy room right now, two game wardens, seven hunters, and a cow.

Tom Lehrer

#44. The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts, all on a hot summer's day. The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts. The mad Queen said, "Off with his head! Off with his head! Off with his head!" Well ... that's too bad ... no more heads to cut.

Jun Mochizuki

#45. It's just that some people walk with their heads to the ground for some reason. They don't like to look other people in the eye.

Stephen Chbosky

#46. The parliamentary principle of vesting legislative power in the decision of the majority rejects the authority of the individual and puts a numerical quota of anonymous heads in its place. In doing so it contradicts the aristocratic principle, which is a fundamental law of nature.

Adolf Hitler

#47. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.

Ray Bradbury

#48. It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of jinxing it, bringing the nightmare back down on our heads.

Harriet Brown

#49. The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.

Walter Lippmann

#50. Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#51. There is a princess in all our heads: she must be destroyed.

Laurie Penny

#52. Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough.

John Scalzi

#53. If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.

Aldous Huxley

#54. The effective strength of sects is not to be ascertained merely by counting heads.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#55. English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off ... Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son.

Dave Barry

#56. You the swimmer, after all. And then you see the waves without pattern, scooping up everyone, throwing them around like so many floating heads, and you can only laugh in your sobbing at all the silly head bobbers. Laughter can shake you from the delirium of grief.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#57. I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.

Colin Wilson

#58. That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads."
"That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.

C.S. Lewis

#59. I teach a course called 'Committed Impulse,' and part of the work I do is to get people outside of their heads.

Josh Pais

#60. You look concerned."
"Just that if you've started another war, I'd like a heads-up is all."
"The level of confidence you have in my diplomatic skills is overwhelming."
"What diplomatic skills?

Michael J. Sullivan

#61. Jane smiled the Making Lemonade smile that adults learn to do when they get used to the world stomping on their heads.

Michael R. Underwood

#62. Most people are almost blind and they don't see most things and there is lots of spare capacity in their heads and it is filled with things which aren't connected and are silly, like, I'm worried that I might have left the gas cooker on.

Mark Haddon

#63. The sight of so many guns, mostly deer rifles and duck guns but with a smattering of black rifles and riot shotguns, made him glad that this was going down in a rural area where people still had their heads screwed on right about personal defense.

Larry Correia

#64. You can't make a revolutionary omelet without breaking heads.

Norman Spinrad

#65. We all have a little voice in our heads that talks to us.

David Posen

#66. The passionate are like men standing on their heads, they see all things the wrong way.

Plato

#67. It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.

Dave Eggers

#68. I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.

Laurie Metcalf

#69. What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.

Robert Jordan

#70. 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.

Tony Bennett

#71. You gotta keep ur head up even when the road is hard never give up.

Tupac Shakur

#72. Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.

Stephen Harper

#73. I do wonder why people hate their grey hair so much! I think grey hair is a gift from the moon! When the moon laughs, her eyes produce tears of joy that fall to the earth and onto the tops of people's heads!

C. JoyBell C.

#74. All questions need to be explored from our hearts first & then embraced by our heads.

Andrea T. Goeglein

#75. The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#76. We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads.

Vlade Divac

#77. When people have guns, you run in the other direction or you're meat. We have a half-dozen deer heads on the wall at home that can tell you that."
"Or would," Howard added," if they weren't dead. And deer.

Diana Peterfreund

#78. I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.

Trevor Dunn

#79. The challenge of ultrarunning is 90 percent mental, and the other 10 percent is all in our heads

Ray Zahab

#80. One of Zaphod's heads looked away. The other turned round to see what the first was looking at, but it wasn't looking at anything very much.

Douglas Adams

#81. Thoughts = words inside our heads Images = pictures inside our heads Sensations = feelings inside our bodies.

Russ Harris

#82. When Cecily comes to sit beside me, we rest our heads together and I tell her a final story about the twins. The one whose grief drove him to set the country ablaze. And the one who found a way to love her captor.

Lauren DeStefano

#83. Friends in the Dharma, be satisfied with your own heads. Do not put any false heads above your own. Then, minute after minute, watch your step closely.

Nyogen Senzaki

#84. We look wishfully to emergencies, to eventful, revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mitch Kynock

#85. I like doing radio because it's so intimate. The moment people hear your voice, you're inside there heads, not only that, you're in there laying eggs.

Douglas Coupland

#86. I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.

Margaret Atwood

#87. But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.

J.G. Farrell

#88. Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#89. Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

Eckhart Tolle

#90. Life's a freaking mess ... there's not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts, all getting in the way of each other. It's all a beautiful calamitous mess.

Jandy Nelson

#91. We have no idea, but its not like we're going to win any awards for normalcy anytime soon. So you get into people's heads? The two of us can throw people around like toys. Zu once blew up an AC unit, and all she did was walk by it.

Alexandra Bracken

#92. Credit card issuers and HELOC lenders are like fair-weather friends: They cozy up to you in good times, but when the economy heads south, they abandon you faster than Usain Bolt runs the 100 meters.

Suze Orman

#93. Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is ... zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now.

Ted Cruz

#94. Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which passions roar.

Rosamond Marshall

#95. Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don't sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

David Byrne

#96. We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries.

Ernst Toller

#97. Everywhere I go, kids walk around not with books under their arms, but with radios up against their heads. Children can't read or write, but they can memorize whole albums.

Jesse Jackson

#98. Yes, Ryn, a woman. A soldier who has taken the heads of gods, escaped from countless prisons and dungeons, and decimated an army of mortals by herself. Do not underestimate her simply because she wears a bra.

Bethany K. Lovell

#99. As some heads cannot carry much wine, so it would seem that I cannot bear so much society as you can. I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough of it this year I shall cry all the next.

Henry David Thoreau

#100. They passed a bed of opium poppies, dispetaled now; the round, ripe seedheads were brown and dry - like Polynesian trophies, Denis thought; severed heads stuck on poles.

Aldous Huxley