Top 100 Over Your Head Quotes

#1. Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

Henry David Thoreau

Over Your Head Quotes #7350
#2. Get in over your head
as often and as joyfully
as possible.

Alexander Isley

Over Your Head Quotes #45758
#3. You could read a hundred books about the attitudes and beliefs of the past, but the impact of witnessing this casual, ignorant cruelty firsthand was like having a bucket of ice upended over your head.

Alexandra Bracken

Over Your Head Quotes #81456
#4. When you've been poor all your life, you never really think it could be any other way. And sometimes you're even happy, because at least you've got your family and your health and your arms and legs and a roof over your head.

Marie Lu

Over Your Head Quotes #112346
#5. Dress yourself in heavy fishing waders, put on an overcoat and boxing gloves and a bucket over your head, then have somebody strap two sacks of cement across your shoulders and you will know what a space suit feels like under one gravity.

Robert A. Heinlein

Over Your Head Quotes #152383
#6. He's over your head! He was, but naturally I'd flung myself into the Sea of Voltaire anyway and emerged with nothing more than several aphorisms.

Sue Monk Kidd

Over Your Head Quotes #155242
#7. You will honor my mother or I will break this bottle over your head

Rosamund Hodge

Over Your Head Quotes #190359
#8. Having a roof over your head with enough food to eat is a fundamental need of all humans if they are to achieve happiness.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

Over Your Head Quotes #229215
#9. It was a scream of loss so immense there was no speech for it. It was the wordless cry of having the sky over your head, the air in your lungs, ripped away from you forever.

Cassandra Clare

Over Your Head Quotes #306078
#10. As castles went, this one looked as though it could be taken by a small squad of not very efficient soldiers. For defence, putting a blanket over your head might be marginally safer.

Terry Pratchett

Over Your Head Quotes #307280
#11. Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's something that hangs over your head all the time.

Lisel Mueller

Over Your Head Quotes #358992
#12. Martin Luther said, "You cannot keep birds from flying over your head but you can keep them from building a nest in your hair." You can't keep the Devil from suggesting thoughts, but you can choose not to dwell or act on them.

Rick Warren

Over Your Head Quotes #383434
#13. 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

Over Your Head Quotes #410173
#14. And tonight - Geryon? You okay?
Yes fine, I'm listening. Tonight - ?
Why do you have your jacket over your head?
...
Can't hear you Geryon. The jacket shifted. Geryon peered out. I said sometimes
I need a little privacy.

Anne Carson

Over Your Head Quotes #464384
#15. [Adulthood feels like] walking around in the desert with a bag over your head, being bumped into by people who rob you as they bore you.

Dylan Moran

Over Your Head Quotes #465015
#16. Innocent people can get into terrible jams, too. One false move and you're in over your head.

Ben Hecht

Over Your Head Quotes #488507
#17. Is there no way you could just pull your bottom lip over your head and swallow?

Suzanne Wright

Over Your Head Quotes #604364
#18. How old do you have to get before wisdom descends like a plastic bag over your head and you learn to keep your big mouth shut? Maybe never. Maybe you get more frivolous with age.

Margaret Atwood

Over Your Head Quotes #638993
#19. Here's a tip. The good guys ask you to get in the truck. The bad guys put a black bag over your head and throw you in the truck. I'm asking.

A.G. Riddle

Over Your Head Quotes #643704
#20. Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night.

Ellen Potter

Over Your Head Quotes #656673
#21. You are rich if you have enough to meet your most basic needs. You are rich if you have access to clean water, food, shelter, love, a roof over your head.You have to count your blessings to see that you are richer than you think.

Michelle Singletary

Over Your Head Quotes #697422
#22. Why don't you do the world a favour. Pull your bottom lip up over your head and swallow.

Walter Matthau

Over Your Head Quotes #704564
#23. Writing music and lyrics, you tend to become a control freak - sitting alone in your room with a bare light bulb over your head, writing communist manifestos.

Jason Robert Brown

Over Your Head Quotes #718091
#24. Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

Susan Rice

Over Your Head Quotes #749257
#25. Seriously. Who needed a real lover when you had a handsome, affectionate man who adored you, put a beautiful house over your head, gave you a great job, lavished you with fabulous clothes, shoes, purses and jewelry and would never break your heart?

Kristen Ashley

Over Your Head Quotes #753348
#26. You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair.

Eva Ibbotson

Over Your Head Quotes #777346
#27. There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There's interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.

Jo Walton

Over Your Head Quotes #783951
#28. I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you're in over your head.

Dennis Crowley

Over Your Head Quotes #790741
#29. Fetch Constantine, or I'll make boots out of your hide, bear. (Arcadian Sentinel)
Don't touch me, or I'll mount your jewels to the wall over your head. (Aimee)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Over Your Head Quotes #794143
#30. None of us really pushes hard enough. People always talk about playing over your head when you are up against someone really good. Maybe you don't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.

Fran Tarkenton

Over Your Head Quotes #796294
#31. Beans are a roof over your head.

John Steinbeck

Over Your Head Quotes #810534
#32. When you see one of these graceful crafts sailing over your head, and possibly over your home, as I expect you will in the near future, see if you don't agree with me that the flying machine is one of God's most gracious and precious gifts.

David McCullough

Over Your Head Quotes #828146
#33. Good books are over your head; they would not be good for you if they were not.

Mortimer J. Adler

Over Your Head Quotes #893061
#34. You're playing and you think everything is going fine. Then one thing goes wrong. And then another. And another. You try to fight back, but the harder you fight, the deeper you sink. Until you can't move ... you can't breathe ... because you're in over your head. Like quicksand.

Keanu Reeves

Over Your Head Quotes #898268
#35. It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

Criss Jami

Over Your Head Quotes #901996
#36. Please ignore rumors! I've had them for years and you have to just let them go over your head. Don't take them personally.

Emma Bunton

Over Your Head Quotes #924227
#37. But there's that thing with secrets, too, how they take over your head, feeding on your every thought, growing bigger all the time until the day comes they're so heavy you can't walk.

Debbie Howells

Over Your Head Quotes #929584
#38. I stopped for a few seconds by the newspaper stand wondering whether to buy the two evening papers here, the two biggest publications. Reading them was like emptying a bag of trash over your head.

Karl Ove Knausgard

Over Your Head Quotes #947701
#39. If you stay in bed all day with the covers over your head, if you overeat for the millionth time in your life, if you get drunk, if you get stoned, if it's just this habitual thing that you think is going to make you feel better, you know that's going to depress you and make you more discouraged.

Pema Chodron

Over Your Head Quotes #958872
#40. There was just something very crystalizing about bullets whining over your head; it tended to put questions of morality in perspective.

Evan Currie

Over Your Head Quotes #979134
#41. Just because birds fly over your head, doesn't mean you have to give them a place to build a nest.

Herbert Kelley

Over Your Head Quotes #1003618
#42. I realize more and more what it takes to be a really good photographer. You go in over your head, not just up to your neck.

Dorothea Lange

Over Your Head Quotes #1007344
#43. Don't live as though you were going to live a myriad years. Fate is hanging over your head; while you have life, while you may, become good.

Marcus Aurelius

Over Your Head Quotes #1014435
#44. Before reading please place a condom over your head because it's about to be fucked.

Ker Dukey

Over Your Head Quotes #1029563
#45. Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

Larry Kramer

Over Your Head Quotes #1035350
#46. There is ripe fruit over your head.

Henry David Thoreau

Over Your Head Quotes #1065829
#47. We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated - but that's the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it.

Phil Condit

Over Your Head Quotes #1104650
#48. You are so in over your head that even a life raft can't keep you afloat.

Holly Stephens

Over Your Head Quotes #1119806
#49. How would you like it if, at your job, every time you made the slightest mistake a little red light went on over your head and 18,000 people stood up and screamed at you?

Jacques Plante

Over Your Head Quotes #1125642
#50. You can just pull the covers over your head and pretend this isn't happening!

Leigh Bardugo

Over Your Head Quotes #1160223
#51. Anyone who tries to make a living as a painter knows you can't lounge about waiting for inspiration to hit; nothing motivates like keeping a roof over your head.

Nita Engle

Over Your Head Quotes #1175997
#52. Doom. You recognize Doom easily. It's a feeling and a taste, and it's black, and it's very heavy. It comes down over your head, and wraps tentacles around you, and sinks long dirty fingernails into your heart. It has a stink of burning garbage.

Gil Brewer

Over Your Head Quotes #1178150
#53. The easiest thing to do in the world is pull the covers up over your head and go back to sleep.

Dan Gable

Over Your Head Quotes #1181907
#54. Finding Grant however and living happily ever after was an illusion, a dream. Things like that didn't happen to women like them. Things like that didn't happen in real life. Real life was shacking up with a man you didn't love just to have the security of a roof over your head.
Elle Ison

Shawn Reilly

Over Your Head Quotes #1228546
#55. If you look around the world, the countries with the best environmental practices are the wealthiest. There's a reason for that. If you're worried about where your next meal is going to come from or shelter over your head, your focus is on those things.

John S. Watson

Over Your Head Quotes #1250232
#56. But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.

Carol Burnett

Over Your Head Quotes #1292431
#57. May your glass always be full, may there always be a roof over your head, and may you dirty sinners be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead.

Jason Jack Miller

Over Your Head Quotes #1293462
#58. Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.

F Scott Fitzgerald

Over Your Head Quotes #1362432
#59. If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

T. S. Eliot

Over Your Head Quotes #1375636
#60. Make a change! It's all about you! You may not be able to prevent the bird from flying over your head; but you can prevent it from making a nest on your head!

Israelmore Ayivor

Over Your Head Quotes #1423873
#61. I think trying to create intimacy on a set with a boom over your head can be a little embarrassing.

Ruta Gedmintas

Over Your Head Quotes #1462713
#62. When you're writing fulltime like I am, writing to pay the bills and keep a roof over your head and food on the table, you can't afford to have writer's block.

Brian Keene

Over Your Head Quotes #1469192
#63. You can't keep the birds of sadness from flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair.

Sharon Creech

Over Your Head Quotes #1474987
#64. The sky's the limit if you have a roof over your head.

Sol Hurok

Over Your Head Quotes #1505098
#65. I've seen many lives destroyed. I've seen more people have problems with gambling than I have with drugs and alcohol. And there are some serious consequences if you get in over your head.

Michael Franzese

Over Your Head Quotes #1512876
#66. Take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

Bill Cosby

Over Your Head Quotes #1530515
#67. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

Carol Burnett

Over Your Head Quotes #1546357
#68. If you're worried about putting food on the table or putting a roof over your head, that stress is definitely will contribute to unhappiness, but once you have your basic needs met then incremental money.

Tony Hsieh

Over Your Head Quotes #1585169
#69. 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

Over Your Head Quotes #1639254
#70. Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.

Larry Kramer

Over Your Head Quotes #1657238
#71. Cannot prevent birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair.

Norman Vincent Peale

Over Your Head Quotes #1666882
#72. You want to strike that happy medium: the balance of being able to find creative satisfaction in your profession, be able to afford a roof over your head, but still have the freedom to live a relatively normal life.

Chris Evans

Over Your Head Quotes #1676457
#73. You are NOT a financial failure if you rent. You are getting something for your money. A roof over your head.

Michelle Singletary

Over Your Head Quotes #1691126
#74. You need to eat well, sleep well, and have a roof over your head, but don't go much further than that before extending yourself to others.

Sakyong Mipham

Over Your Head Quotes #1735489
#75. I knew a girl so ugly that she was known as a two-bagger. That's when you put a bag over your head in case the bag over her head breaks.

Rodney Dangerfield

Over Your Head Quotes #1833983
#76. If you feed your mind as often as you feed your stomach, then you'll never have to worry about feeding your stomach or a roof over your head or clothes on your back.

Albert Einstein

Over Your Head Quotes #1837123
#77. What seems over your head is always under His feet.

Johnny Hunt

Over Your Head Quotes #1839514
#78. You always want to be a little in over your head and be challenged to get better.

Taylor Ho Bynum

Over Your Head Quotes #1844164
#79. Love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. If you don't start with that, what are you going to end up with? Fall head over heels. I say find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. And how do you find him? Forget your head and listen to your heart.

William Parrish

Over Your Head Quotes #36741
#80. 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

Over Your Head Quotes #44055
#81. I think about you all the time. I can't stop."
Shaking my head, I ran my palm over my wet face. This couldn't be happening to me. I would not allow it. I knew better.
"Addison, it's natural to form attachments to your teachers."
"Is it natural to picture them fucking you?

Ella Frank

Over Your Head Quotes #44443
#82. Katie leaned forward conspiratorially. Oh, sweetie, I just said that because Alice is an old bag. You go after Devon. The man is fine. I don't blame you for changing your look for a shot at that. When the pool about you two gets going at Petie's Pub, I'm putting my money on you.

Susan Meier

Over Your Head Quotes #49447
#83. Don't overthink things. Sometimes you can convince your head not to listen to your heart. Those are the decisions you regret for the rest of your life. Faith Barnett From Texas Tangle

Leah Braemel

Over Your Head Quotes #84819
#84. How old did you have to be to put one over on your mother, anyway? Twenty? Thirty? Or did you maybe have to wait until she got old and a little chicken-soupy in the head?

Stephen King

Over Your Head Quotes #86025
#85. You won't fall madly out-of-your-brains in love? Let your world as you know it be blown to bits because you fall heart-crushingly head-over-heels for someone?

Jessica Park

Over Your Head Quotes #110741
#86. And forgive me if this is harsh, but I don't want you getting it into your head that the love you have for Ridge will be enough to hold you over until the day Maggie dies. Because Maggie isn't dying, Sydney. Maggie's living. She'll be around a lot longer than Ridge's heart could ever survive you.

Colleen Hoover

Over Your Head Quotes #120957
#87. Breakups are tough," Isabella said. "But you got through it!" "I'm glad you're over him," Shannon said. "Now you need to go find another asshole to fuck with your head.

Jennifer Close

Over Your Head Quotes #126321
#88. You have to stop and freeze the moment," he told me I had told her. "You have to make yourself remember by repeating it in your head over and over. You have to write to preserve your sanity.

Jenny Hubbard

Over Your Head Quotes #141917
#89. Carol turned around quickly as if stifling an urge to lunge at Max. He turned back to Max, straining to appear genial. "Okay," he said, "but will you come over here and put your head in my mouth again?"
Max continued to back up, "No, Carol. I don't want to right now.

Dave Eggers

Over Your Head Quotes #142753
#90. Today is indeed an historic occasion when as a first chair-in-office woman I hand over to another woman chair in office, your Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in the presence of a woman head of the Commonwealth, Her Royal Highness, Her Majesty the Queen of England.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Over Your Head Quotes #152005
#91. I crossed oceans for you,
Turned over every rock,
Climbed the highest mountains,
Holding on to the words you said,
Reliving your touch inside my head,
The taste of you on the tip of my tongue,
Only to be left with you as only a fantasy inside my head.

LeAnne Mechelle

Over Your Head Quotes #157371
#92. 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

Over Your Head Quotes #167702
#93. Love must be invisible. No one ever sees it coming. It sneaks up behind you, bashes you over the head and leaves you in a state of stunned confusion for the rest of your life.

G.J. Walker-Smith

Over Your Head Quotes #169674
#94. Fear is like a little germ in your head, allow it to grow and it takes over your all.

Kevin Focke

Over Your Head Quotes #194670
#95. 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

Over Your Head Quotes #195893
#96. For instance, if you're a black guy and you got pulled over, and you didn't know that any other black men were being pulled over, you would constantly in the back of your head be thinking, "What did I do?" rather than, "I didn't do anything, these are just the conditions I live under."

Claudia Rankine

Over Your Head Quotes #202787
#97. All I want to do is kiss you until I fall asleep. I want to slide in between your sheets, and find out what goes on inside your head, and underneath your clothes. I want to make a fool of myself over you. Mr.

Sally Thorne

Over Your Head Quotes #206663
#98. You see another who looks thirsty.
Walking over to them, you nudge them on the back.
They look at you, and you gesture toward the lake with your head.
You and the other walk over there, and you are content and you are happy.
You are home.

Amanda Leigh

Over Your Head Quotes #298117
#99. When your presented with an opportunity to fall head over heels in love, don't hesitate.

Truth Devour

Over Your Head Quotes #307968
#100. "It smells all right; it makes your head go round; it catches your breath; you feel ticklish all over - and not the faintest clue how it's done. The man's a sorcerer; the thing's a conjuring trick, it's a miracle," ...

Marcel Proust

Over Your Head Quotes #317372

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