Quotes About Headless
On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveller in relief against the sky, gigantic in height, and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horror-struck on perceiving that he was headless!--but his horror was still more increased on observing that the head, which should have rested on his shoulders, was carried before him on the pommel of his saddle!
~ Washington Irving
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Could you bring back a man without a head? Not six times. Just once.
~ Arya
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We're all turkeys! Some of us are running around with our heads cut off, some of us are flapping our wings that hard we're close to flying. But nothing is an eagle bar God.
~ Phil Collins
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Hollywood producers aren't going to say, 'Get me that swearing, grey-haired, headless chicken. We need him for our new 'High School Musical' movie!'
~ Peter Capaldi
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So he has no head' 'Thats usually what headless means' 'No head at all?' 'Your really not getting the whole headless thing are you?' 'Its just kind of silly even for us...
~ Derek Landy
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What's a Dullahan?' 'He's a headless horseman, in the service of the banshee.' 'Headless?' 'Yes.' 'Seriously?' 'Yes.' 'So he has no head?' 'That's usually what headless means.' 'No head at all?' 'You're really getting hung up on this headless thing, aren't you?' 'It's just kind of silly, even for us.' 'Yet you spend your days with a living skeleton.' 'But at least he has a head.' 'True.' 'He even has a spare.
~ Derek Landy
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Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.
~ Ambrose Bierce
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Keep your voice down. And before you go all badass cop on me, I'm the one who saved your life outside. (Nathan) How do I know that? (Terri) Let's use some logic. You stuck your head in here. Someone tried to use it for target practice, but I yanked you away before you ended up headless. If I was the shooter, you'd be dead now and we wouldn't be having this conversation. (Nathan)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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If she'd had a head, she'd be shaking it.
~ Elizabeth Bear
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The aftermath is often more troublesome than the act itself. As soon as the head has been exhibited to the crowd, it can be dropped back into the basket. But the headless body (which remains capable of losing a good deal of blood for a long time after the action of the heart has ceased) must be taken away in a manner dignified yet dishonorable. Furthermore, it must be not just taken "away," but taken to some specific spot where it will be safe from molestation.
~ Gene Wolfe
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To tell you the truth,' repeated Sarah coldly, 'she had a fright, and the bandboxes broke loose.' 'What frightened her?' 'A Headless Horseman,' said Sarah. He was frowning again. 'Headless Horseman? Fiddlesticks!' 'Very well,' said Sarah, as one making a concession, 'then it was a dragon.
~ Georgette Heyer
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Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow' has got to be the most gorgeous, sumptuous, painterly movie ever made about multiple decapitations.
~ Jeff Giles
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It was a case of the blind leading the blind, only worse, for Arnault seems to have been practically headless.
~ Eric Metaxas
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He used to make shuddering conjectures about the possible actions of a headless physician with the power of reanimating the dead.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
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And then there was the headless horseman! said Tiffany. He had no head! Well, that is the major job qualification, said the toad.
~ Terry Pratchett
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I can remember playing for Carlisle and just running around like a headless chicken telling the others boys not to worry, that I'd do their running for them. I was just so eager and so keen and desperate to be a footballer that I did that.
~ Glenn Murray
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The vast white headless phantom floats further and further from the ship, and every rod that it so floats, what seem square roods of sharks and cubic roods of fowls, augment the murderous din.
~ Herman Melville
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There is a company in Barcelona called Headless, and I was a huge fan. I love their style. I had been trying to work with them for years. 'A Monster Calls' was the perfect project to work on with them.
~ Juan Antonio Bayona
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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
~ Charlie Chaplin
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This ferry was taken over by the Yumas and operated for them by a man named Callaghan, but within days it was burned and Callaghan's headless body floated anonymously downriver, a vulture standing between the shoulderblades in clerical black, silent rider to the sea.
~ Cormac McCarthy
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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
~ Charlie Chaplin
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Nobody heard the two shots, but plenty of people saw Warren's head explode, or felt the wet gore splatter them, or saw his headless body drop to the ground, blood pouring from his neck like a dropped carton of milk.
~ Lee Goldberg
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I want taquitos and a clown with no head!
~ Jhonen Vasquez
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A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Instead, I just heated up a skillet of plastic soldiers, poured a milkshake over my head and called it a night.
~ David Sedaris
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