Quotes with head-to-toe

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  • Mark Twain Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • René Daumal Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think. This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Basil of Caesarea Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows that it brings abundance to drive away hunger.
    Basil of Caesarea
    Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia (330 - 379)
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  • Bill Bailey Marijuana? It's harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it.
    'Beards' (track 12) 5:29
    Bewilderness: New York (audio CD, 2002)
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Robert Bresson Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • William Shakespeare My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Beth Ditto My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigger than a rat.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.
    Buffalo Bills Life Story: An Autobiography (1920 edition), Courier Dover Publications
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • B. B. King My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bela Fleck My most powerful memory was hearing Earl Scruggs on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' as a 5 or 6 year old. That sound just blew me away, shook my head up.
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  • Alfred Jodl My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
    Alfred Jodl
    German general and war criminal (1890 - 1946)
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  • Robert Bresson My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Antonio Gramsci My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.
    Antonio Gramsci
    Italian writer, politician and political scientist (1891 - 1937)
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  • 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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  • 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.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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