Heading Quotes

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. (Washington Irving)
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. View quote
Laozi
It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
I came very close to quitting my job for the Bush-Cheney '04 campaign. I seriously considered packing up my office and heading home to Colorado. View quote
Mary Cheney
I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out. View quote
Wally Schirra
Do you remember which way I was heading? View quote
Charles Hartshorne
Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome. View quote
Clarence Thomas
Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out. Packing up our bags maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around. This is your hometown. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
Harry Dresden: Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night. View quote
Jim Butcher
Total experiences, of which there are many kinds, tend again and again to be apprehended only as revivals or translations of the religious imagination. To try to make a fresh way of talking at the most serious, ardent, and enthusiastic level, heading off the religious encapsulation, is one of the primary intellectual tasks of future thought. View quote
Susan Sontag
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. (Susan Sontag)
You can look out of your life like a train & see what you're heading for, but you can't stop the train. View quote
Philip Larkin
The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think. View quote
Vanessa Redgrave
We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit. View quote
David Suzuki
Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Through ignorance, through faith, through intelligence, through trickery and cunning, through illumination, the reader rewrites the text with the same words of the original but under another heading, re-creating it, as it were, in the very act of bringing it into being. View quote
Alberto Manguel
Until I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
I want to achieve anti-fashion through fashion. That's why I'm always heading in my own direction, in parallel to fashion. View quote
Yohji Yamamoto
I think that comedians, more than any other type of celebrity, have to keep their humour and keep their feet on the ground. If they start taking themselves too seriously, they're heading for a fall. View quote
Jimmy Carr
Let's scope the place out," he suggested, heading around the side of the building, "and be careful in the bushes." "Why?" Amy asked. "This is South Africa, dude," Dan replied. "Where cobras come from. And not the hot ones, like Ian. View quote
Peter Lerangis
Don't beat yourself up for not knowing the answers. You don't always have to know who you are. You don't have to have the big picture, or know where you're heading. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what you're going to do next. (Sophie Kinsella)
Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form. View quote
Etgar Keret
After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction. View quote
Alice Hoffman
I'd like to be a geneticist to be honest, but there are limits to what I can do now. For my dream to come true I'd have to be 20 years old again, heading off to a blue chip university. View quote
Adam Faith
I met my wife, Jennifer, while sitting next to her on the airplane on the way to England. I was heading to Oxford as a Marshall scholar. View quote
Derek Kilmer