Quotes about head
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“My head was full of misty fumes of doubt.”

Source: Dust Tracks on a Road

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“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;!”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

Source: If: A Father's Advice to His Son

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“My head is pounding. I wish the mints were aspirin.”

Source: White Cat

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“Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what youfrom a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.”

E. Lockhart (1967) American writer of novels as E. Lockhart (mainly for teenage girls) and of picture books under real name Emily J…

Source: The Boyfriend List: 15 Guys, 11 Shrink Appointments, 4 Ceramic Frogs and Me, Ruby Oliver

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“You know what it was like? It was like thinking I was heading to a surprise party and instead it was a surprise pap smear.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

Source: Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer

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“Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!”

Patricia C. Wrede (1953) author

Source: Magician's Ward

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“Quite collected at cocktail parties,
meanwhile in my head
I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Variant: Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.
Source: Transformations

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“It will go away… The stuff in your head. Little by little.”

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

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“Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.”

Washington Irving (1783–1859) writer, historian and diplomat from the United States

Source: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

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“Empty pockets never held anyone back…it's only empty heads and empty hearts that do it.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

"Enthusiasm makes the difference" (2003), p. 58

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“I turned and bumped my head against his chest a few times. It was the nearest hard surface.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

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“He shook his head and squeezed my hand tight. "You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered, "You are my heart-- I am your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach?" --Jamie”

Variant: You are my courage, as I am your conscience," he whispered. "You are my heart---and I your compassion. We are neither of us whole, alone. Do ye not know that, Sassenach?
Source: Drums of Autumn

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“It is only by struggling with difficult books, books over one's head, that anyone learns to read.”

Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001) American philosopher and educator

Source: Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1990), p. 315

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“I was heading to Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to say too often if you can possibly help it.”

Bill Bryson (1951) American author

Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

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“No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Lost Colony

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“Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.”

Source: Blood Rites

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“Democracy don't rule the world; you'd better get that in your head. This world is ruled by violence.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Union Sundown

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“After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Joe Jones

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“Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I:
But when the trees bow down their heads
The wind is passing by.”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

Who Has Seen the Wind? http://www.repeatafterus.com/title.php?i=1191, st. 2 (1872).

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“Writer’s block results from too much head. Cut off your head. Pegasus, poetry, was born of Medusa when her head was cut off. You have to be reckless when writing. Be as crazy as your conscience allows.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

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“I got 27 people livin in my head and all of them was about to beat the heck out of you for doin that..”

Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter
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“It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has got the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me.”

Part Four, Ch. V (pp. 237-238)
Source: The Good Soldier (1915)
Context: It is a queer and fantastic world. Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has got the wrong thing. Perhaps you can make head or tail of it; it is beyond me.
Is there any terrestrial paradise where, amidst the whispering of the olive-leaves, people can be with whom they like and have what they like and take their ease in shadows and in coolness? Or are all men's lives like the lives of us good people — like the lives of the Ashburnhams, of the Dowells, of the Ruffords — broken, tumultuous, agonized, and unromantic lives, periods punctuated by screams, by imbecilities, by deaths, by agonies? Who the devil knows?

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“Heart and head are contrary historians.”

Source: Stargirl

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