Permed Quotes

#1. She'd permed her hair to within an inch of its life. When she moved her head, the mass of hair followed along behind her a split second later.
Perhaps you had to live through the late 70's, early 80's to appreciate this.

Jean Thompson

#2. His hair was permed and gelled like a New Jersey girl's on homecoming night.
Percy Jackson

Rick Riordan

#3. It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn't be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.

Grace Jones

#4. I permed my hair 12 years ago, because I always wanted a perm, but my mother would never let me have one! I got a lot of stick, but I didn't care - I loved the curls. The growing out was the difficult part!

Chloe Sevigny

#5. This worked out perfectly for me in college, because what nineteen-year-old Virginia boy doesn't want a wide-hipped, sarcastic Greek girl with short hair that's permed on top? What's that you say? None of them want that? You are correct.

Tina Fey

#6. When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!

Mariska Hargitay

#7. When I was young, I couldn't imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they weren't out in the jungle, searching for romance. Besides, these women just looked so ancient - permed hair, beige cardis.

Deborah Moggach

#8. i was a prisoner of events

Nigel Blundell

#9. America Singer, you get back here." He ran in front of me, wrapping an arm around my waist as we stood, chest to chest. "Tell me," he whispered. I pinched my lips together. "Fine, then I shall have to rely on other means of communication." Without any warning, he kissed me.

Kiera Cass

#10. Why do people respect the package rather than the man?

Michel De Montaigne

#11. I left home at the correct time but when I was riding along near the hatchery, the crew was separating some salmon, I guess I just got distraught, watching them.

Lois Lowry

#12. Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

Jean De La Bruyere

#13. The ragged curtains were reaching out across the room and the foot of the bed was soaked with rain. She got up and closed the window to protect her from the storm outside. However, there was no protection from the storm that was always brewing in her mind.

Nancy B. Brewer

#14. I would like to somehow make the community I live in a better place to live.

Kevin Johnson

#15. It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.

David Bowie

#16. There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context. If you translated something into French and then had it translated back into English by somebody who didn't know the original, you'd lose what was funny.

Tom Stoppard

#17. I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.

Nick Cave

#18. Peter's fear of the animals which were shown him was probably not a directly conditioned fear.

Mary C. Jones

#19. High school sucks. People who say those were the best years of your life - those people are liars ... Who wants the best years of their life to be in *high school*? High school is something *everybody* should be ready to lose.

Meg Cabot

#20. It was 911 calling me. If you can believe it. Them calling me.

Robin Black

#21. It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

Louisa May Alcott