Quotes with head-dress

Quotes 321 till 340 of 373.

  • Bob Ross Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangelo had to pat you on the head at birth.
    Bob Ross
    American painter, art instructor and television personality (1942 - 1995)
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  • Thomas Carlyle True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Winston Churchill Trying to maintain good relations with a Communist is like wooing a crocodile. You do not know whether to tickle it under the chin or beat it over the head. When it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • William Shakespeare Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carolina Herrera Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Bayard Taylor Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Walter Lippmann We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Alison Lurie We can lie in the language of dress or try to tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.
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  • Paul Boese We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.
    Paul Boese
    American filmmaker
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Barbra Streisand What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • B. B. King What don't I want to learn? I have how-to books, history, nature. Ain't nobody here saying, 'You'd better learn this.' But I still think I've got a head on my shoulders, and it pleases me.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Sir John A. Macdonald When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.
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  • Barry Levinson When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
    Barry Levinson
    American filmmaker, screenwriter, and actor (1942 - )
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  • C. S. Forester When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • C. S. Lewis When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.
    A Grief Observed (1961)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Napoleon When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • C. C. H. Pounder When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
    C. C. H. Pounder
    Guyanese–American actress
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  • Charles F. Kettering When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with a sign: LEAVE SLIDE RULES HERE! If I didn't do that, I'd find some engineer reaching for his slide rule. Then he'd be on his feet saying, ''Boss you can't do that.''
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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