Quotes about head
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“If you try to use your head to think about things, people don't want to have anything to do with you”

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“Honey, you need to get laid. (Selena)
Why don’t you speak a little louder, Lanie? I don’t think the guys in Canada were able to hear you. (Grace)
Oh, I don’t know. They’re probably headed south even as we speak. (Waiter)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Fantasy Lover

Source: Fantasy Lover

Guy, Thinking

“What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.”

Anne Brontë book Agnes Grey

Source: Agnes Grey

Fools, Heart

“… you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.”

Sophie Kinsella book Twenties Girl

Source: Twenties Girl

People, Heart

“His body rigid with terror as he waited for the savages to something horrible to him—bash his head with clubs, or stab him with spears, or…
…or tap him on the shoulder.”

Dave Barry book Peter and the Starcatchers

Source: Peter and the Starcatchers

Waiting

“Look at the way you live. You've sold out. Next thing I know you'll become a Republican." She shook her head. "Where are the values I raised you with?”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

Way

“See… I knew baby Marissa was quality people, look how she's eating the head off the red-headed Artemis doll. Simi need to teach her to belch fire, then introduce her to the real heifer-Goddess herself(Simi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Night Play

People, Baby

“I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.”

Alice Hoffman book The Dovekeepers

Source: The Dovekeepers

Women

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

Zora Neale Hurston book Dust Tracks on a Road

Source: Dust Tracks on a Road

“Jace shook his head. 'I don't care if I did just set myself on fire,' he said. 'I'm not hugging you.'
Simon sighed and dropped his arms. 'Your loss,' he said. 'If you'd gone in, I would've let you, but honestly it would have been a pity hug.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Jace Herondale and Simon Lewis, pg. 454
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)

Loss

“He saw that I was shy, and at the time I was still scared of feeling with another person, so he put his arm around me and pulled me and put my head on his breast and gave me love actually.”

Allen Ginsberg book Howl and Other Poems

Source: Howl and Other Poems

Love, Feeling, Time, Personality

“Most of all she loved that when she hugged him her head would rest neatly just below his chin, where she could feel his breath lightly blowing her hair and tickling her head.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: P.S. I Love You

Love, Feeling

“she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn’t breathe, God would grant her another day”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

God

“Trust me?" I held my breath for her answer. She had every reason not to trust me. I'd been her kidnapper, her captor, yet I'd rather have died than hurt a single hair on her head.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Hurt

“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

Men

“Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.”

Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants

Source: Water for Elephants

Life, Age

“It'd be nice to have someone who understood some of the things that went on in my head.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

“Where's Amy?" Ian put in. "Will you please get her to call that Evan character? He rings here twenty times a day. He's either the most mule-headed person who ever lived, or he really likes your sister. She has to have mercy on him–on all of us!”

Gordon Korman book The Medusa Plot

Source: The Medusa Plot

Sister, Time, Personality

“And what about magic?”
“What about it?”
“Will you teach me?”
“You don’t even know if you’re capable of doing magic.”
“How do I find out? Is there a test or something?”
“Yes, we cut off your head. If it grows back, you can do magic.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

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

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

“Jason’s heart lifted when he saw Nico di Angelo on the front lines with the Greeks, slashing his way through a crowd of two-headed men.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Men, Way, Heart

“Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish in your presence, Cee, and I don’t think I can blame the heat.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

Truth, Way, Feeling, Thinking

“Roza." his voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent… it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don't hesitate."
I just barely saw his fist striking out toward my head… and then I saw nothing at all.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“I am stronger when Tessa is here, you see. I told it to you," said Jem, still in the same soft voice.

At that, Will did duck his head so that Tessa could not see his eyes. "I see it," he said.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

“Sweet pea?'" Alec said.
"I was just trying it out."
Alec shook his head. "No."
Magnus shrugged. "I'll keep at it.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“With his sunglasses gone and his scarf hanging down, there was no denying that he had no flesh, he had no skin, he had no eyes and he had no face.
All he had was a skull for a head.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”

Marc Chagall (1887–1985) French artist and painter

Heart, Motivational, Back To Work

“And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you
all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed,
Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?-
And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Source: Mine the Harvest

Life, Pain

“Leo scratched his head. Well, I dunno about enchiladas- "Enceladus" Piper corrected. Whatever. But Old Potty Face mentioned another name. Porpoise Fear, or something?”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

Fear

“You're not so bad. You'll get there. You should have seen Alec do flips at first. I think he kicked himself in the head once.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Thinking

“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

Idea, Thinking

“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

Thinking

“If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Baby

“Bending his head over hers, Leo murmured, "When I give you away at the altar, Bea, I want you to remember something. I'm not really giving you away. I'm merely allowing him the chance to love you as much as the rest of us do.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

Love, Chance

“Cabbage, n. A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.”

Ambrose Bierce book The Devil's Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)

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

Patricia C. Wrede (1953) author

Source: Magician's Ward

“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

Heart

“You love me?"
He just looked at me for a moment. And then he reared back his head and laughed, a rich, mellow sound, unreserved and unashamed. " No, not at all. I regularly battle gods for women I dislike!”

Karen Chance American writer

Source: Hunt the Moon

Love, Women, God

“I told him. He inclined his head. we said, and it was a vow far more powerful and binding than any ring or piece of paper.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Feversong

“Why am I letting you comfort me?” He stared over her head. Because I’ve made sure you have no one else to turn to.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Lothaire

“Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?"
Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads.”

Darren Shan book Hunters of the Dusk

Source: Hunters of the Dusk

Forgetting

“That's what it's like in my head all the time, constant snow, constant weather patterns of all sorts - blizzards, cyclones.”

Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation

Source: Prozac Nation

Time, Weather

“Any place I hang my head is home.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Home

“When by my solitary hearth I sit,
When no fair dreams before my “mind’s eye” flit,
And the bare heath of life presents no bloom;
Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed,
And wave thy silver pinions o’er my head.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Source: The Complete Poems

Life, Dreams, Hope

“We are the ones who create the messes in our heads. It does not come from outside.”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

“Your head is a living forest full of songbirds.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

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

Michael Thomas Ford (1968) American writer

Source: Suicide Notes

“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

Understanding, Heart

“My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before — a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Walking (June 1862)
Source: Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

Dreams, Intelligence, Knowledge

“Vampires don't live at all," she points out, "neither do we."
She has me there. "Fine, I'll go. But when Kurt leads his minions in a march around the cemetary with our heads on sticks, don't say I didn't warn you.”

Cynthia Leitich Smith (1967) American writer and poet

Source: Eternal

“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

Heart

“He shook his head in mock sympathy. "I tell you, Sage. Sometimes I think I am the one who needs to take out the restraining order on you.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Thinking

“In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.”

Yann Martel (1963) Canadian author best known for the book Life of Pi

Women, Men, Youth, Teachers

“Jeb climbed the ladder Fang had just lowered and I indulged in a moments fantasy about someone slamming the trapdoor on his head.”-max”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

“If somebody had said last week that I'd be in… involved… with a human, I'd have knocked his head off. I mean, after howls of derisive laughter. But.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

Laughter

“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

Time

“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”

Diana Gabaldon book Drums of Autumn

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

Courage, Heart

“We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.”

Jonathan Maberry book Dust & Decay

Source: Dust & Decay

“Don't you hear it? She asked & I shook my head no & then she started to dance & suddenly there was music everywhere & it went on for a very long time & when I finally found words all I could say was thank you.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

Music, Time, Dance

“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

Books, Learning, Reading

“We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit”

David Suzuki (1936) Canadian popular scientist and environmental activist

Cars

“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

Help

“The coach could do a goat-hoof tap dance around Nico’s head and the son of Hades wouldn’t even budge.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Dance

“And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking over, but already in mid-air.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“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

World

“I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.”

Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer

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

Jim Butcher book Blood Rites

Source: Blood Rites

“Hey,” the cabbie yelled. “How’s about a tip?”

“You bet-ski,” Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her. “Don’t kiss strange men in Penn Station.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

Men, Kiss

“One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.”

Charles Bukowski book Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Way, Drink, Suicide, Dead

“This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

Feeling, Heart

“And then, when he’s been underwater so long I feel certain he’s drowned, his head pops up right next to me and I start. “Don’t do that,” I say. “What? Come up or stay under?” he says. “Either. Neither. Whatever”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Feeling

“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

World, Democracy

“Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head. (339)”

Victoria Moran (1950) American writer

Source: Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit

Moms

“When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

Idea, Thinking

“You suck, surprising no one!!!! If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!! You're a stupid poo-poo head! I had sexual relations with your mother! Your mother was not that good in bed! You, sir, are a wretched soul! I am rubber, you are glue!”

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 2: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Stupidity, Soul

“Garrett ran a hand through his hair. “How can you stay the head of the Stake-Out team? Isn’t that a conflict of interest?”
“You expect me to stake myself?” Sean growled.
“I’ve got a nice, big one you can borrow,” Gregori suggested.”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: Sexiest Vampire Alive

“Did that remind anybody else of something?"
"Yes," Eve said, tapping her lower lip with a bloodred fingernail. "How much I need to shave her head while she's sleeping.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Sleep

“I swear on the Angel." He ducked his head down, kissed her cheek. "The hell with that. I swear on us.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Angels, Hell, Kiss

“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

Age, Soul, Personality

“the chocolate raisins tasted somewhat fishy, but Lucy didn't care-chocolate was chocolate. She changed her mind however, when she realized that the raisins were tiny fish heads.”

Angie Sage (1952) English author and illustrator

Fish, Change

“Time for bed.” I held my fist out. One by one, my flock stacked theirs on top, and then we headed up into the trees to sleep the sleep of the innocent. Well, okay, maybe not so innocent. But the sleep of the much less guilty than others, for sure.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Final Warning

Sleep, Tree, Time

“Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Smile

“Magnus raised his head and looked up and over at Alec; it was a look that made Clary flush and glance away. There was so much love in it, mixed with exasperation and pride and despair. It was an unguarded look, and it felt wrong to see it.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Love, Despair

“Clary stopped wondering about peanut-fish-olive-tomato soup and started wondering what would happen if she dumped the contents of the pot on Isabelle’s head.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Fish

“Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Asfixia

Beauty, Imagination

“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).

Tree

“I can smell you, Ms. Lane," he said, even more softly. "The only blood on you is from your veins, not your womb."
My head whipped to the left and I stared at him. Ok, that was one of the more disturbing things he'd ever said to me.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

“The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

Truth

“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

“The only real treasure is in your head. Memories are better than diamonds and nobody can steal them from you”

Rodman Philbrick book The Last Book in the Universe

Source: The Last Book in the Universe

Memory

“It'll be all right, my fine fellow," said the Otter. "I'm coming along with you, and I know every path blindfold; and if there's a head that needs to be punched, you can confidently rely upon me to punch it.”

Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows

Source: The Wind in the Willows

Confidence

“Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

“Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Source: The Death of Ivan Ilych

“How you're still always trapped.

How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

“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

People

“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.”

Ford Madox Ford book The Good Soldier

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?

People, World

“I used to be ashamed
And now I am proud.
The world once was black
And now it is bright.
I used to walk head bent
And now I stand up tall.
I used to have dreams
But now I have hope.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Perfect

World, Dreams, Hope

“Heart and head are contrary historians.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

Heart

“I dont know," said Simon, "it doesn't sound so bad to me. I'd rather have someone mess around inside my head than chop it off."
"Then you're a bigger idiot than you look.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones