Quotes about head
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“That ones yours, huh?"he asked, pointing to 3A."How come it just says 'Kyle'? Doesnt he have a last name?"
"Kyle wants to be a rock star,"Simon said, heading down the stairs."I think his working the one-name thing. Like Rihanna.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

Star, Thinking

“With determination and purpose, I head into the light.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

Light

“I have a remarkable ability to delete all better judgement from my brain when I get my head set on something. I have no sense of moderation, no sense of caution. I have no sense pretty much.”

Marya Hornbacher book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Sense

“Pulling heads off Barbies, sticking them on the TV antenna and ruining the reception. But thats how witch babies are.”

Francesca Lia Block (1962) American children's writer

Baby

“When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.”

Graham Chapman (1941–1989) English comedian, writer and actor

Source: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book): Mønti Pythøn Ik Den Hølie Gräilen

“Now before we do any digging around in that blond head of yours to find out the truth, I suggest you cool your temper. And I know just where you can do that best.”
Jace blinked. “Are you sending me to my room?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Truth

“The stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

Star

“An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight.”

Lee Child (1954) British thriller writer

Fight

“Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.”

Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer

“She's tired and leans her head on his shoulder, which is the resting place for all their heads, but when Justine and Siobhan and Francesca use his body so shamelessly he doesn't feel the need to turn his head and press his mouth against their hair.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: The Piper's Son

Feeling

“I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

People, Beauty, Thinking, Animals

“Honestly, darling," she said. "Do you even look in a mirror before you walk out the door? Your hair's a mess."

He dodged her as she reached toward his head. "Are you kidding? I spend hours in front of the mirror toit look this way.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Way

“When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“Boy, you knock on the devil's door and he will head slam you through the wall.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: No Mercy

Boy

“Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Fate, People

“I self-paralyze myself & wonder what I've got in my head.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I said, names aren't important," he repeated. There was a silence between them for some seconds, then the Ranger said: "Do you know what is important?"
Will shook his head.
"Supper is important!”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Ruins of Gorlan

Silence

“He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much. It seemed to him it was probably because they could not take enough happiness just from the sky and the moon to carry them over the low feelings that came to all men.”

Larry McMurtry Lonesome Dove

Source: Lonesome Dove

Men, Happiness, Feeling

“Certificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunter’s home.”

Chetan Bhagat book 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Source: 2 States: The Story of My Marriage

Home, Universe

“Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.”

Stephen Chbosky (1970) American writer

“I'm sorry, I'm still stuck on you losing your head.”
“I didn't lose it. It was stolen.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

“He who waits for the sword to fall upon his neck will surely lose his head.”

Stephen R. Donaldson (1947) Novelist

Waiting

“She's got some sort of notion in her head concerning the eternal rights of women.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

Women

“The car was full of unhappy people heading west. It was the Great American Family Road Trip, all right. Whaaa-hoo!”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Pale Demon

People, Family, Cars

“Apparently unaffected, she rose. "Yeah, you're probably right. I should be going." She feigned a yawn. "You've gotta head back to work and I've gotta head to jail. Big night for me. I'm planning to shiv someone for a bar of soap. --”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Night

“I don't-" I shake my head. (…)
"What? What were you going to say?" This is another trick of shrinks. They never let you stop in midthought. If you open your mouth, they want to know exactly what you had the intention of saying.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

“I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy. Sometimes it felt like Edward had sprung full grown from the head of some violent deity, like a vicious version of Athena.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Skin Trade

Source: Skin Trade

Boy

“Sophos turned red, and I wondered about the circulation of his blood; maybe his body kept an extra supply of it in his head, ready for blushing.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

“Just reflecting on the fact that when the Universe punches you in the teeth, it never just lets you fall down. It kicks you in the ribs a couple of times and dumps mud on your head.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Universe, Time

“1lb beefstak, with
1pt bitter beer
every 6 hours.
1 ten-mile walk every morning.
1 bed at 11 sharp every night.
And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand.”

Jerome K. Jerome book Three Men in a Boat

Source: Three Men in a Boat

Beer, Understanding, Night

“There is absolutely no inevitability, so long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

The Medium is the Message (1967), A chapter sub-heading attributed by McLuhan to Alfred North Whitehead

“Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

“Remember when i slept with my head
in a puddle at your feet?
It was humility, or atonement.
later your ankle was a pillow and
finally you pulled me up and in my sleep i
placed your hand above my heart,
like i forgot i didn't live there
anymore”

Michelle Tea (1971) American writer

Sleep, Heart

“Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

Home

“She didn't flirt with him, but they hung out together a lot, and every time I saw their heads bent over a computer screen or map, it made my stomach clench. And my teeth. And my fists.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Final Warning

Time

“When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

“So, using his pride like a shield against despair, dejection, and-most important—
self-pity, Raoden raised his head to stare damnation in the eyes.”

Brandon Sanderson Elantris

Source: Elantris

Despair

“The trick to surviving an interrogation is patience. Don’t offer up anything. Don’t explain. Answer the question and only the question that is asked so you don’t accidentally put your head in a noose.”

Laurie Halse Anderson (1961) American children's writer

Source: The Impossible Knife of Memory

Question, Patience

“Maybe it's the stardust in my head.”

Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer

Source: Play On: Piano/Vocal/Chords

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.”

Lin Yutang (1895–1976) Chinese writer

"A Trip to Anhwei", in With Love And Irony (1940), p. 145

Beauty, Travel, Home

“I glanced at George half naked in his towel, then at Barkley, completely naked in his… nothing. A vampire and a werewolf.
I shook my head. It was obvious. I was having one of my Anita Blake dreams again.”

Michelle Rowen (1971) Canadian writer

Source: Fanged & Fabulous

Dreams

“This is just my way of pointing out that we people who leap without looking are not stupid. We know damn well we might be headed for a fall. But we also know that, sometimes, it's the only way out.”

Jodi Picoult book Lone Wolf

Source: Lone Wolf

People, Stupidity, Way

“I went to the door, and Gary tried hard not to notice I was blue. He looked at his feet, and he looked above my head, and he cleared his throat.

It's okay,' I said. 'I know I'm blue.'

It caught me by surprise,' he said. 'I didn't want to seem rude.”

Janet Evanovich book Fearless Fourteen

Source: Fearless Fourteen

“You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
any direction you choose.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Shoe, Motivational, Wise, Deep

“After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That’s fine for Carter, but I have standards.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

“The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.”

Noah Webster (1758–1843) lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author

Heart

“Setting out around midnight, I couldn't help shaking my head, "We're the goddamned hottest vampire hunters ever." I muttered.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

Help

“Love does not exist, it's like religion, the state wants you to believe in that kind of crap so they can control you, and f**k your head up.”

Irvine Welsh book Trainspotting

Source: Trainspotting

Love, Religion

“The soul is like an uninhabited world
that comes to life only when
God lays His head
against us.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

Life, God, World, Soul

“I thought helping someone else might take me out of my own head for a while.”

Cammie McGovern

Source: Say What You Will

Help

“He clenched Nix's shoulders. 'Why did you hesitate? I saw you hesitate!' He shook her until her head lolled, while she grinned and said, 'Wheeee!”

Kresley Cole book A Hunger Like No Other

Source: A Hunger Like No Other

“Because I cursed him to it. (Acheron)
Be glad I’m not physically there or I’d slap you upside the head. You know how free will works, so stop the whining and get off the cross. Someone needs the wood. (Savitar)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: One Silent Night

“There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.”

Dave Barry (1947) American writer

Life, Time, Sea

“You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)

People, Leadership

“A warrior cannot lower his head - otherwise he loses sight of the horizon of his dreams.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Warrior of the Light

Dreams

“Well you can go ahead and hand your head out the window if you feel like it"

"I'm a werewolf not a golden retriever”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Clary and Luke, pg. 415
Variant: "Well, you can go ahead and hang your head out of the car window if you feel like it."
Luke laughed. "I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever."
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

Feeling

“Fang! Come Back!" I started pulling his hair. Shaking his head and shoulders. Hard. "Wake up! Snap out of it! You stupid jerk! I am going to kill you if you die on me!”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

Stupidity, Jerk

“I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Coffee

“Allow me to translate, Twitchtip said, not even bothering to move. "She said if you don't stop your incessant babble, that big rat sitting in the boat next to you will rip your head off.”

Suzanne Collins Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane

Source: Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane

“Augie: Does everybody else know?
T. C.: About my epitaph?
Augie: About me being gay, you gink-head hoser-face!
T. C. Not everybody. There's a night watchman at a Dunkin Donuts just outside of Detroit. He doesn't know yet.”

Steve Kluger (1952) American writer

Source: My Most Excellent Year

Night

“We have to actually choose a name," Kane murmured above her head. "We can't keep calling him 'baby.' When he's fifteen he might resent it.”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Ruthless Game

Baby

“Mariam always held her breath as she watched him go. She held her breath and, in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second that she didn't breathe God would grant her another day with Jalil.”

Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

God

“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

“I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.”

Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian

“… people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: NOS4A2

People, Music, Imagination, Reality

“…I've had a bad week."
What's happened?"
Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“Then the voice in your head silently tells you to take your foot off your throat because just getting along shouldn’t be an ambition.”

Claudia Rankine book Citizen: An American Lyric

Source: Citizen: An American Lyric

“When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.”

Jude Watson book In Too Deep

Source: In Too Deep

Sadness, Parent, Change

“If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal.
But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.”

Philip Pullman book Northern Lights

Source: The Golden Compass

World

“He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.”

Homér Iliad

Source: The Iliad

Men, Daughters, Madness

“He sweeps her hair back from her ears; he swings her above his head. He says she is his émerveillement. He says he will never leave her, not in a million years.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

For Father

“The one I wore to kill Jabba (my favorite moment in my own personal film history), which I highly recommend your doing: find an equivalent of killing a giant space slug in your head and celebrate that.”

Carrie Fisher book The Princess Diarist

Source: The Princess Diarist

History, Personality

“I blinked the sleep out of my eyes and realized my head was in Khufu’s lap. The baboon was foraging my scalp for munchies.
“Dude.” I sat up groggily. “Not cool.”
“But he gave you a lovely hairdo,” Sadie said.
“Agh-agh!” Khufu agreed.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Love, Sleep

“Perspective [is] a luxury when your head [is] constantly buzzing with a swarm of demons.”

Khaled Hosseini (1965) novelist

“Who did you eat this time? (Acheron)
It wasn’t a who, akri. It was something that had hornies on its head like me. There were a bunch of them actually. All of them had hornies and they made a strange moo-moo sound. (Simi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Time

“I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

World, Past, Future, Parting

“Is there something wrong?” he asked.
She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a cool northern breeze blowing off the lake. “You could hold me now.”
It was almost his undoing.
“Ah baby.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: The Darkest Hour

Baby

“There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

Death

“Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk."
"It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?”

David Eddings book The Diamond Throne

Source: The Diamond Throne

“It's not the tales of Stephen King that I've read,
I need protection from the things in my head…”

Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman

Reading

“I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

“Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“Did you read the instructions?” He shook his head. “Why, were you afraid they’d take your man card away?” “Are you going to help me or just make fun of me?” “Can’t I do both?”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

Reading, Help

“The water caught the Falselight glimmer like layers of shifting, translucent mirrors and formed split-second works of art in the air, but men cursed it anyway, because it made their heads wet.”

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora

Men, Art, Water

“I would rather have had someone shoot me in the head with a nail gun, repeatedly, than have to watch the two of them cuddling on the couch together all night. --Conrad”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Night

“My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

“Don't we all live in our heads? Where else could we possibly exist? Our brainsthe universe.”

Kate DiCamillo (1964) American children's writer

Source: Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Universe

“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.”

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

Effort, Learning

“Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

Betrayal, Perfection

“Hold up your head! You were not made for failure, you were made for victory. Go forward with a joyful confidence.”

George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator

Confidence, Failure, Victory

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Spring, Winter, Heart, Beauty

“Love is not an equation, it is not a contract, and it is not a happy ending. Love is the slate under the chalk, the ground that buildings rise, and the oxygen in the air. It is the place you come back to, no matter where your headed”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Love, Happiness

“Are you waiting for a clue to fall on your head?" Derek asked.
"Yep. Tell me if you see one coming."
"Nope."
"My super mental powers must be getting rusty.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

Waiting

“I didn’t hear him behind me. I felt him. Electric. Wild. One foot in the swamp. Never going to crawl all the way out.
And I wanted to have sex with whatever he was. Where was I supposed to put that in my head?”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

Sex, Way

“I've never seen such a collection of idiots in my whole life.' Doolittle shook his head. 'If you participate in this lunacy, y'all will get yourselves killed. Then don't come crying to me.'
Now that would be a neat trick.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

Life, Cry

“As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.”

Yasunari Kawabata book Snow Country

Source: Snow Country

Way

“As the possibility of a relationship had faded, Emma had endeavored to harden herself to Dexter's indifference and these days a remark like this caused no more pain than, say, a tennis ball thrown sharply at the back of her head.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Pain, Indifference

“I wondered if kicking him in the head would make the whole explanation pop out of his mouth in one chunk.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

“My head spins as I glance away, refusing to get sucked back into his gaze when so much is at risk.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

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