Top 81 Quotes About Headley
#1. I grew up on the island, Trinidad to be exact, and I never thought it would be possible. These sort of things happen once in a lifetime. I just know God is bigger than me and everything I do is to serve and please Him.
Heather Headley
#3. My thing is a Mystery and not just a Mystery, but Bermuda
no sun, only Triangle. Unknowable. Unsolvable.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#4. After I had my youngest son,I took time for him and just spent more time with my family. But, I know it's time to get back to work. I am working on new music.
Heather Headley
#5. I just want to create amazing music that speaks and defines who I am. I want it to be based on my life and/or what I am going through at that specific time.
Heather Headley
#6. My husband knows the meaning of sacrifice and support and he doesn't have a problem reminding me when I fall short. He will explain to me how and why this would jeopardize or compromise our relationship.
Heather Headley
#9. I have long been aggravated, and it increases, about the way that society values women almost exclusively for their beauty and youth, and when we get older, tries to make us powerless - just when we're at our most knowledgeable, and most capable. It's so rotten. I gnash my teeth.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#12. I don't think of the sky as any kind of heaven item. I think of it as a bunch of gases and faraway echoes of things that used to be on fire.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#13. There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you've gone, where others have gone before you. To commit to memory every obstacle, every danger. Shakespeare had a term for this obsession: mappery.
Justina Chen Headley
#14. I think of the note.
I want to say me too.
I want to say I know.
I want to say I can read the gaps in your sentences. I can read the space between your letters. I know your language. It's my language too.
I want to say that.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#16. Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?
Justina Chen
#17. Wait!"
What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup.
You got to smell it first. It's the proper way to cup coffee."
Cup coffee?"
Taste it."
What? Are you the coffee police or something?
Justina Chen
#18. Whitney Houston, one of my biggest inspirations, also had that same mindset because her songs vary from R&B, hip hop, pop, and gospel.
Heather Headley
#20. Living's a risk, Aza," she says sharply. "Heroes die young. Would you choose to be less than a hero? Here, the sky will light with fire for you. Our funerals are their sunsets.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#21. It felt like she took off running without me. Her fingers clenched in on mine. Then relaxed, like she'd lost all her bones.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#22. I frantically opened my address book and searched it for someone, anyone, who'd moved me, who'd been good in both bed and brain. No. A slew of the so-so.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#23. Side note: invalid. Whoever invented that word, and made it the same word as not-valid? That person sucked.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#24. People, alas, don't document things with any kind of precision. They fill Twitter with blurry photos.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#25. I need to get onto Aza's ship. I know where it's going. I think I know, even though all I really know, all I've really known since I was five, is that Aza is my universe.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#26. Carpe omnia," I say. Not carpe diem. Not Seize the Day. No, this says Seize Everything. I'll
Maria Dahvana Headley
#27. I am able to stay humble because I recognize that God has truly blessed me; I can't say that enough. I also understand without Him, all of this wouldn't be possible.
Heather Headley
#28. The sound coming out of me is nothing like a cough, nothing even in the same category of a song, but some kind of bird of prey roar, shredding my throat, pulsating my fingers, and Milekt beneath it, singing inside my voice, amplifying me, and making me stronger.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#29. I think about celestial junk. Like, maybe every planet in this solar system is discarded by giant hands. Each star a crumpled ball of paper, a love letter lit on fire, a smoldering bit of cigarette ash.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#30. The Playwright was excited in the way a child is excited on Christmas morning. I liked this. Most people didn't get excited about anything other than their own discontent.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#31. I like to think about the quality, content, and concept for my music because I think these are the most important things and it just molds everything together.
Heather Headley
#32. I had to get used to the theater atmosphere because I haven't had a role on Broadway since Aida. It was a different process from day one because I was learning my parts by myself.
Heather Headley
#33. Looping. Some days are so dark I can't see anything but a miserable fog of number after number, word after word, clouds of verbs and nouns and none of them the ones that will make time go backward.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#35. Maybe love is just that, and only that. The choice you make. And so, you choose to love. You choose to give it all up, to surrender your scared self and live in this mystery. Jik
Maria Dahvana Headley
#36. Did he just say stormsharks? My inner nerd is elated. Can anything I will ever hear from now until the end of time sound cooler than stormsharks?
Maria Dahvana Headley
#37. Some of the songs have a tinge more pop this time. I wanted to go into different worlds.
Heather Headley
#38. I just have to give credit when it's due because there are some things that took place in my life that I couldn't explain at all.
Heather Headley
#40. I am working on a list for collaborations and it's just another way to share your artistic talent with other artist.
Heather Headley
#42. I feel my strange, beautiful bird in my heart, and the unflooded world all around me.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#45. I love music; I was never the type of singer to say, "This is my specific genre, or I only sing R&B music." I feel like as a singer, you should be limitless and you shouldn't be stuck in a box.
Heather Headley
#46. I just feel like this skin is mine. It's aging every day and the tattoos are aging with me. So, I'm going to be an old piece of paper one day with a lot of work on it.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#48. Life and death aren't as different from each other as I thought they were. This isn't like walking into a new country. This is like walking into a new room in the same house. This is like sharing a hallway and the same row of framed family pictures, but there's a glass wall between.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#49. You've never seen surprise until you've looked into the eyes of an ascending bovine.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#50. Vertigo, that's where I am. Pi wants to take over, but I don't let it. Looping wants to occur, but I remain sentient, and I don't do any of the various forms of out-freaking I want to do.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#51. Some people think it's comforting to imagine being flung over a rainbow when you die, grabbed by your ankles by a bluebird, and swung into the void.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#52. All maps lie. Even the best maps distort the truth. Entire wars have been won and lost because of maps, these keepers of secrets.
Justina Chen Headley
#53. I'm dark matter. The universe inside of me is full of something, and science can't even shine a light on it. I feel like I'm mostly made of mysteries.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#54. My husband is very supportive and is there for the kids, especially when I'm in projects such as The Color Purple.
Heather Headley
#55. But there was no version of my life in which I wasn't getting my ass to Svalbard.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#56. You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#58. Because every time someone finds a new animal, or a new amazing thing on earth, it means we haven't broken everything yet.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#59. The beauty of Broadway is that if I'm 60 or 70 years old, if they'll accept me back, I can go back. So I think for right now I'm going to focus on the music
it's the new baby
and see how it's going to work out, and then maybe in a few years maybe I'll go back.
Heather Headley
#60. I like monsters in general - that's what I like to write about. Somebody was joking with me that my body was becoming a manual for a role-playing game because I'm covered in little monsters. That's true. I could easily have more monsters on my skin.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#61. My first tattoo is a full-on Sailor Jerry situation on my hip - it's a swallow with big spread wings. When I got it I was 20 on St. Mark's Place in New York; I just walked in in a frenzy. It's still there 17 years later and it's not a terrible thing to look at.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#62. Death is the Santa Claus of the adult world. Except Santa Claus in reverse. The guy who takes all the presents away.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#63. And there's the loudest sound I've ever heard and the brightest white I've ever seen, and I'm made of it, I'm-
I'm made of light
I'm made of heat
And I'm flying
Maria Dahvana Headley
#64. The Color Purple received four Tony nominations; the play is highly looked at and it's a must see for everyone. I just want to carry on what Jennifer Hudson has done and help the team get to the finish line.
Heather Headley
#66. I was becoming convinced that I was going to be lonely for the rest of my life. It wasn't that I wasn't meeting men. I was. It was just that they all drove me crazy.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#67. -Can we say that?
-I can, you can't.
-Double standard.
-World we live in.
Jaysen Headley
#68. As you're learning your lines and the character you're playing, you're going to make mistakes but I learned more about Shug Avery. I learned my lines, but everything had to be done quickly.
Heather Headley
#70. Instead of the smoldering, soul-baring, Abelard-to-Heloise-sans-castration solicitations you rightfully deserve, you're getting stupefying lines like: I'm listening to NPR. Do you want to come over and make out?
Maria Dahvana Headley
#72. When I was growing up, I grew up in church
my father was a pastor
so when I was growing up in Trinidad, I'd close all the windows in the church and go in the church every day after school and get a little microphone and pretend all these people were in the pews, and I would sing to them.
Heather Headley
#73. Inertia is so easy - don't fix what's not broken. Leave well enough alone. So we end up accepting what is broken, mistaking complaining for action, procrastinating for deliberation.
Justina Chen Headley
#74. A hilarious, honest, heartfelt look at what it means to take on a family that isn't your own ... Izzy Rose rocks it.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#75. For years, I thought that if I had to be a palindrome, make me kuulilennuteetunneliluuk.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#77. If you look at the sky that way, it's this massive shifting poem, or maybe a letter, first written by one author, and then, when the earth moves, annotated by another. So I stare and stare until, one day, I can read it.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#78. I was a protestor. I was such a protestor that I regularly protested things that might have been good for me.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#80. I know everyone has dreams of flying, but this isn't a dream of flying. It's a dream of floating, and the ocean is not water but wind.
I call it a dream, but it feels realer than my life.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#81. My husband, children, and my family are my biggest supporters. I just pray to God to keep my family and I aligned at all times, and I just remember where it all got started before show business.
Heather Headley
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