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The Great Gatsby
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Head Quotes

I went to Ethiopia, and it dawned on me that you can tell a starving, malnourished person because they’ve got a bloated belly and a bald head. And I realized that if you come through any American airport and see businessmen running through with bloated bellies and bald heads, that’s malnutrition, too.

– Dick Gregory

I always had a running commentary in my head that was extremely funny and off-center, but I never said it to anyone.

– Elayne Boosler

I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head – the characters talking all at once – and I have to write to make them stop.

– Eli Roth

I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I’m going to write, I have to write a script.

– Melanie Lynskey

One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it’s tedious and monotonous. You’re bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.

– Cheryl Strayed

I build an entire fort out of pillows. I need at least four pillows. I need on each side, I need one normal usage pillow for the back of my head, and I need another pillow just in case.

– Charlie Worsham

I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.

– Eric Cantona

Books arrive in my head all at once, and then it becomes an 18-month process of getting it all down on paper.

– Douglas Coupland

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes.

– Dinah Sheridan

I love being by the ocean. It stills the voices in my head.

– Chris Weitz

Ecosystems are holy. The word “environmental” is a deadly compromise itself. It’s a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

– David James Duncan

My mother is a Senior Casualty Claims Specialist I, which in layman’s terms means the head insurance adjuster!

– Ciara Renee

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

– Friedrich Nietzsche

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

– Frida Kahlo

Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don’t have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary.

– Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

– Mary Astell

Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer’s nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying ‘ugggh’ that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

– Dan Hill

Once I have a book in my head, I write progressive drafts fast and obsessively and have trouble sleeping.

– Dean Bakopoulos

I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn’t.

– Edward Furlong

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

– Diane Ladd

Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn’t exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.

– P. J. O’Rourke

A lot of banging in the head has built up over the decades, and for my own sanity, I needed to write. I wanted to see if I could tell an honest, organic story about characters that interest me.

– Martin Donovan

I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers – the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue – bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.

– Dani Shapiro

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

– Gilbert K. Chesterton

But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

– Marcus Allen

I’m driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.

– Malcolm D. Lee

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

– Dwight D. Eisenhower

I’ve always connected with music. Life’s not always what you see; it’s what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.

– Ed Westwick

I’ve heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you’re transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it’s like you’re responsible now.

– Dan Byrd

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

– Margot Asquith

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