Quotes with head-heavy

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  • Bob Guccione You have to penetrate a woman's defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into her body.
    Bob Guccione
     
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  • Franz Kafka A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Carl Sagan A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break th
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Jules Renard A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Peter Ustinov A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
    Peter Ustinov
    British actor, writer, director (1921 - 2004)
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  • Orson Welles A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Agnes de Mille A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
    Agnes de Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • Nelson Mandela A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Robert Townsend A good leader needs to have a compass in his head and a bar of steel in his heart.
    Robert Townsend
    American businessman
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  • Oliver Herford A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
    Oliver Herford
    American writer, cartoonist (1860 - 1935)
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  • Edward Gibbon A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Mark Twain A man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Simone Weil A man whose mind feels that it is captive would prefer to blind himself to the fact. But if he hates falsehood, he will not do so; and in that case he will have to suffer a lot. He will beat his head against the wall until he faints. He will come to again
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Abdul Kalam A person with belief never grovels before anyone, whining and whimpering that it's all too much, that he lacks support, that he is being treated unfairly. Instead, such a person tackes problems head on and then affirms, 'As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
    Source: Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.
    Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Billy Joel A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Charles Dickens A very little key will open a very heavy door.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Horace Greeley Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.
    Horace Greeley
    American editor (1811 - 1872)
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  • Carolina Herrera Age is something only in your head or a stereotype. Age means nothing when you are passionate about something.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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