Head Quotes - page 4

I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like, How's school? Are you a good boy? Did you say your prayers? but if you ask them did they say their prayers you might be hit on the head. (Frank McCourt)
It's lovely to know that the world can't interfere with the inside of your head. View quote
Frank McCourt
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body. View quote
William Cobbett
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. View quote
Colette
People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it. View quote
Anthony de Mello
Over my head his arm he flung Against the world. View quote
Robert Browning
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment. View quote
Djuna Barnes
As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
In arguing too, the parson own'd his skill, For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still While words of learned length and thundering sound Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons. (Adrienne Rich)
I believe the ability to think is blessed. If you can think about a situation, you can deal with it. The big struggle is to keep your head clear enough to think. View quote
Richard Pryor
With your head full of brains, and your shoes full of feet, You're too smart to go down any not-so-good-street. View quote
Dr. Seuss
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud. View quote
Jesse Ventura
Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. View quote
Thomas Browne
There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. View quote
Rita Rudner
Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. View quote
Jane Austen
Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey. (Tad Williams)
Returning to town in the stage-coach, which was filled with Mr. Gilman's guests, we stopped for a minute or two at Kentish Town. A woman asked the coachman, 'Are you full inside' Upon which Lamb put his head through the window and said, 'I am quite full inside that last piece of pudding at Mr. Gilman's did the business for me.' View quote
Charles Lamb
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? View quote
T. S. Eliot
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
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