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Quotes About Head

Dantes remained confused and silent by this explanation of the thoughts which had unconsciously been working in his mind, or rather soul; for there are two distinct sorts of ideas, those that proceed from the head and those from the heart.
~ Alexandre Dumas
When the body is viewed as an apparatus for carrying the head around, we leave ourselves prone to the tyranny of our intellect and the justification and defense of the rational mind.
~ Donna Farhi
Victory always starts in the head... It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmation that destiny can do nothing but obey.
~ Douchan Gersi
Maybe even God himself needed companionship, needed something outside of himself. Perhaps he was trapped in his own head, like I am, and finally found his salvation through the creation of the universe and sentient life.
~ Douglas E. Richards
This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of bed all night. And when I pull them in, oh dear! My head sticks out of bed out here!
~ Dr. Seuss
The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.
~ Drew Carey
No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.
~ Alfred Doblin
Left-handers have more enthusiasm for life. They sleep on the wrong side of the bed, and their head gets more stagnant on that side.
~ Casey Stengel
I'm full of restlessness. Not lonely, exactly - my head is racing with ideas. But it is that old treacherous feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, and I'm left out.
~ Helen Garner
The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head
~ Herman Melville
Ant 1: So, uh, do you ever worry that your itsy little neck is just going to snap under the weight of your head? Ant 2: Stop asking me that. You ask me that, like, every five minutes. Ant 1: Sometimes I notice my antennae out of the corner of my eye and I'm all, like: AHH! Something is on me! Get it off! Get it off! Ant 2: Yeah, the antennae again. Listen, I just remembered, I have to go walk around aimlessly now.
~ Jim Benton
Jeff [the werewolf] cocked his head and stared at me like I had just turned into a were-rabbit. Admittedly, this was a tremendous improvement over wanting to tear me limb from limb. "Well, shave my ass and call me a poodle. How the hell did you manage that?
~ Jim C. Hines
He was guillotined in the French Revolution, and he said he'd keep blinking his eyes after his head was off, for as long as he had consciousness. He blinked seventeen times. That's a scientist," Gill said.
~ Jo Walton
instead his head jerked suddenly to one side and
~ Joan Dahr Lambert
If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.
~ Joan Powers
I'm a gunsmith and security expert," he continued, shaking his head.
~ Joanna Wylde
John Quincy Adams's bald head was a barometer of anger; the redder it got, the madder he was.)
~ Joanne B. Freeman
He was ready to embrace a radiant new world. She was ready to snap his head off.
~ Anna Campbell
At last with a thud her head dropped to the table, and the dishes began to clatter and clink with the violence of her snores.
~ Anna Elizabeth Bennett
In this land I have made myself sick with silence In this land I have wandered, lost In this land I hunkered down to see What will become of me. In this land I held myself tight So as not to scream. -But I did scream, so loud That this land howled back at me As hideously As it builds its houses. In this land I have been sown Only my head sticks Defiant, out of the earth But one day it too will be mown Making me, finally Of this land. -Charlie's poem
~ Anna Funder
If Moscow is Russia's heart,' runs a Russian proverb, 'and St Petersburg its head, Kiev is its mother.
~ Anna Reid
What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.
~ Anne Bronte
A pair of swans above the lock, the waters pouring down into the pool below: the rightness of things restored me to my own proper desiring. I got up and walked back home very slowly, putting the right motives back in the right bodies. This is what Duggan did, this is what I did. This is what he wanted and knew, this is what I wanted. This is what I did not want. This is what I did not know. Also, the difference between what happens in your head and what happens in the room. The big difference.
~ Anne Enright
She touched his hand, and he went stock-still. She leaned over to examine it, the top of her head brushing beneath his nose. Only his sudden immobility stopped him from violently pulling away. "From the candles?" Had she bathed in bloody honey?
~ Anne Mallory