“Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.”
Lauren Willig (1977) American author
Source: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
Lightsong the Bold and Llarimar
Warbreaker (2009)
“Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.”
Lauren Willig (1977) American author
Source: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America
1961
Source: Conversation with Harold Macmillan, in Bermuda (1961) as recounted by Richard Reeves in his book President Kennedy: Profile of Power (1994)
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Morality
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part II - Elementary Morality
Shahrukh Khan (1965) Indian actor, producer and television personality
From interview with Rajeev Masand
“A great wind is blowing and that either gives you imagination… or a headache.”
Catherine the Great (1729–1796) Empress of Russia
As quoted in Daughters of Eve (1930) by Gamaliel Bradford, p. 192
Variant: A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
“Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!”
Chinua Achebe book Anthills of the Savannah
Source: Anthills of the Savannah
“You wouldn’t like him. Major fanatic. Confuses migraine headaches with God.”
James K. Morrow book Only Begotten Daughter
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 4 (p. 84)
Willie Nelson (1933) American country music singer-songwriter.
[Nelson, Willie; Bud Shrake; Edwin Shrake, 2000, Willie: An Autobiography, Cooper Square Press, 197]