Quotes About Helmets

#1. There's only one way kids will wear helmets, and that's if their parents are nagging them to. They will never wear helmets because some state passes a law requiring it.

Dave Barry

#2. And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.

Dorothy Dunnett

#3. Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Colin Campbell says that every member of the Georgia General Assembly with an IQ above 85 should be required to wear a crash helmet. That should take about ... oh, say 15 helmets?

Neal Boortz

#4. Because people who decline organized leisure activities are deserters from the great common struggle against boredom, and they deserve neither attention nor helmets.

Milan Kundera

#5. I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?

Henry Rollins

#6. I always thought the best kind of sunglasses are the motorcycle helmets with the black plastic masks on them. That way, nobody can recognize the back of your head either.

Bob Dylan

#7. Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

Joe Theismann

#8. Time and space are different in this realm," he explained. "Your body needs a chance to adjust." At the top of the staircase we entered a room with bronze helmets decoratively set on stone pedestals.

C. Gockel

#9. These new helmets can read your thoughts, too," Ray joked. "But you have to think in Russian.

Ernest Cline

#10. Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

Tracey Ullman

#11. The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.

Al McGuire

#12. Now what do you get in the Army? Bad helmets and Basra. Your guns don't work and everyone hates you when you come back.

Rupert Everett

#13. Namir snorted. "What is it with you people and Vader?" he asked. "It can't be the helmet that scares people. Stormtroopers have helmets.

Ballantine Books

#14. Soldiers went off to fight the Nazis with pictures of girls like you in their helmets.

Susan Sey

#15. Whether Henry was a royal trendsetter or it was practical under their helmets, I didn't know. I certainly couldn't think of any other reason for having the most hideous hairstyle in a History that includes Donald Trump.

Jodi Taylor

#16. At the time, in 1996, an electronic band signing with a major label was something new, at least in France. Daft Punk knew that this meant a marathon of promotion, TV appearances, etc. To protect themselves and to be discrete, they came up with the masks and, three years later, the robot helmets.

Pedro Winter

#17. In martial arts, the way that they train really does channel that killer instinct. We used to put motorcycle helmets on and go full force at each other with these sticks to train.

Jose Pablo Cantillo

#18. Football helmets were first designed to protect against skull fractures, but users get more than skull fractures. We need to take a look at this to see if there is any way to improve safety. We need to set some standards, because the ones now are not protecting players to the highest level.

G. K. Butterfield

#19. The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics was the amount of trouble they took over their armor and their helmets, and then, after all that, they left their legs bare. It didn't make any sense at all. Weatherwise or otherwise.

Arundhati Roy

#20. I think everybody should have the choice [with drugs] the same as helmets. You should be able to say whether you want to wear one or not. By making drugs illegal, the government is intervening into our lives a little too much.

Sonny Barger

#21. The suit's got a cervical airbag that blows up when you fall off the board, so you can bounce on your head. Besides, helmets feel weird. They say it doesn't affect your hearing, but it does.

Neal Stephenson

#22. I have a lot of experience with making fake helmets out of foil.

Ray Toro

#23. Does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

Tao Lin

#24. Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law.

H.C.Paye

#25. If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while the other bodies forth a troop of dragoons with drawn sabres and white-plumed helmets.

Augustus William Hare

#26. Unfortunately, many parents reject helmets for their kids out of a mistaken perception that helmets are unsafe for children.

Michelle Yeoh

#27. We all look the same with our helmets on.

James Stewart

#28. KARACHI: The Karachi traffic police will be distributing free helmets for women as part of their 'Friends of Traffic' campaign, which hits the roads on June 8.

Anonymous

#29. Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

Kate Adie

#30. On the rare occasions when U.N. blue helmets have made the news in the past, it has unfortunately too often been in the context of situations where peacekeepers have failed to shield civilians, or even when the peacekeepers themselves have been involved in abuse.

Samantha Power

#31. Cats probably wouldn't need 9 lives if they wore tiny little helmets and didn't smoke cigarettes.

Rob Delaney

#32. It didn't matter whether "football" for you was soccer or the American sport played by men in helmets.

Neal Stephenson

#33. And do we also have, do we have ... a party of minor deities from the Halls of Asgard? Away to his right came a rumble of thunder. Lightning arced across the stage. A small group of hairy men with helmets sat looking very pleased with themselves, and raised their glasses to him.

Douglas Adams

#34. Standard issue helmets are designed to filter out smoke, not toxins.

Alan Dean Foster

#35. Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.

Jeffrey Kluger

#36. Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are
retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.

Edward Abbey

#37. Another real problem was over putting our helmets on for re-entry, because we all had severe head colds. They couldn't come up there and make us. Houston, you have a problem!

Wally Schirra

#38. For the first stretch of road Olivia's eyes were sealed shut, her breath held hostage in her lungs.
"You might want to open your eyes," Wesley called back knowingly, his muffled voice breaking through both of their helmets. "And don't forget to breathe.

Shawn Kirsten Maravel

#39. In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths.

Jonathan Lethem

#40. Then he noticed her boys. They were standing side by side at the edge of the driveway, their plastic guns still in their hands and their faces pale and forlorn beneath the toy helmets, his own Tony, God bless him, with a comforting arm around each.

Alice McDermott

#41. Down the sidewalk
where laborers feed their dirty
glistening torsos sandwiches
and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets
on. They protect them from falling
bricks, I guess.

Frank O'Hara

#42. Militant mothers hiding in the basement using pots and pans as their shields and their helmets.

Alice Cooper

#43. In the Netherlands, fewer than one in thirty riders wear helmets, the streets are full of cyclists, and the bike accident and head injury rate is far lower than it is in the United States.

Grant Petersen

#44. If we (Lauren and Jim) ever get married, we're just going to put helmets on, run into each other from a hundred yards, and smash together like rams

Jim Carrey

#45. I could hardly see him in the darkness, but knew he wore a leather jerkin and had a sword at his side. The rest of us were in leather and mail, had helmets, and carried shields, axes, swords, or spears. Tonight we would kill. Sihtric,

Bernard Cornwell

#46. One of the things 'Minecraft' is most noted for is the freedom it gives the players to build and experiment with the tools. You start off with simple objects; axes, torches, helmets and swords. With a little time and experimentation, you move to switches, complex machines, mine carts, glass.

Rob Manuel

#47. Without helmets and uniforms, it is impossible to tell their nationality; their naked bodies mark them only as human beings.

Adam Hochschild

#48. Athletes, coaches and parents today are increasingly aware of the danger of concussion, and this awareness influences decisions about buying new and reconditioned football helmets.

Tom Udall

#49. Full-face helmets look stupid.

Blake Shelton

#50. Sev, feeling embarrassed by his reaction, examined the bones. The left arm came off in his hand. "Yep, he's dead all right." Scorch sucked his teeth noisily. It was extra-amplified in the scuba trooper helmets. "Sure you don't want a second opinion, Doc?" "Nah, I'm prepared to go out on a limb.

Karen Traviss

#51. Iron helmets will not save/
Even heroes from the grave/
Good man's blood will drain away/
While the wickid win the day.

Heinrich Heine

#52. I'm a pitcher, so the glove is my only accessory. The hitters get to have all the fun. They have batting helmets, the actual bats, gloves, elbow guards - all this cool stuff to wear. And all I get is a glove.

C. J. Wilson

#53. There are two kinds of people that wear bike helmets: kids and retards.

Gavin McInnes

#54. Players grunt, coaches yell, and pads and helmets crack, creating a frightening symphony of future early-onset dementia.

Nate Jackson

#55. Nico jumped into the crowd, kicking groins, smacking faces with the flat of his blade, bashing helmets with his pommel. In ten seconds, the Romans all lay groaning and dazed on the ground.

Rick Riordan

#56. If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.

Keith Olbermann

#57. Football has always been violent. In the early days of the game, they didn't wear hard helmets. They wore soft helmets, which were just designed to protect the ears. In the '40s and '50s they began to introduce hard helmets, which provided much more protection against things like skull fractures.

Greg Ip

#58. The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers ...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#59. I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.

Sting

#60. A remarkable and definite victory.
The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers
and warmed and cheered all our hearts.

Winston S. Churchill

#61. Step back for a minute. Pretend you're from Mars. From a coldly rational point of view, pedestrian helmets aren't a crazy idea.

A. J. Jacobs

#62. My heart's in stage. Making 'Quadrophenia' was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But 'hurry up and wait' is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing.

Phil Daniels

#63. Until the notion of Helmet-Assisted Life catches on with more people, you may be seen as a threat if you wear a helmet during moments of intimacy. Yet it might also be true that relaxed intimacy cannot occur unless the head is fully protected.

Ben Marcus