Quotes with head-to-toe

Quotes 261 till 280 of 295.

  • 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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  • Bonnie Tyler When I was young, I used to wear a lot of wigs, and I was running on stage at a gig and tripped over and it fell off. It was in the 1970s, and Swansea were doing really well in the league, and most of the team were there. I almost died, but I picked it up, put it back on my head and carried on.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • William Blake When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Buddha When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Beth Ditto When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Carlos Ghosn When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Lord Samuel Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Katharine Hepburn Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Bill Kurtis With news, especially investigative pieces, you've got to be really smart and really lucky to be timely and to not get beaten by the big guys. You can't go head-to-head with the networks.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (2009 edition), Arc Manor LLC
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Bram Stoker Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Bennet Omalu Yes, the concept that blunt-force trauma of the head causes brain damage is a generally accepted principle of medicine. That is why I was so appalled by the NFL doctors who were denying my work.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Yogi Berra Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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