Quotes with head-dress

Quotes 201 till 220 of 373.

  • Jackie Chan My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. [Listing what body parts he has broken]
    Jackie Chan
    Actor, stuntman and kung fu expert from Hong Kong (1954 - )
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  • B. B. King My wife Martha used to call me Ol' Lemon Face because of my facial contortions when I play Lucille. I squeeze my eyes and open my mouth, raise my eyebrows, cock my head and God knows what else. I look like I'm in torture, when in truth, I'm in ecstasy. I don't do it for show. Every fiber of my being is tingling.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • John Berger Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Camille Paglia Nefertiti is like Athena born from the brow of Zeus, a head-heavy armored goddess. She is beautiful but desexed.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Richard Nixon Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Satchel Paige Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
    Satchel Paige
    African-American baseball player (1906 - 1982)
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  • Samuel Johnson Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bob Woodward Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Frank Zappa No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • William Butler Yeats Nobody running at full speed has either a head or a heart.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Jonathan Franzen Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.
    Source: De correcties
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • George Eliot Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Carolyn Murphy One of my most laughable moments was when we visited the monkeys in Ubud - they really seemed to like me and at one point, I had three males on my head and shoulders.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Billy Collins One of the disadvantages of poetry over popular music is that if you write a pop song, it naturally gets into people's heads as they listen in the car. You don't have to memorize a Paul Simon song; it's just in your head, and you can sing along. With a poem, you have to will yourself to memorize it.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Caitlin Moran One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Bradley Whitford One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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  • Abraham Pais One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche 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
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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