Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lancaster Spalding

We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.

Jim Piddock

It's so wonderful and creative to go in and tell the wardrobe department what you want to wear and how you want your hair to look. That's great, for an actor. The actors get to do more than they would, normally.

Joanna Russ

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.

It's a strange feeling. He has some of my mannerisms. He's a super guy. The red hair looks good. He might be on to something.

This is a barbershop, not a hair salon. You come in here not trying to impress anyone. It's a place just to talk, to hang out with the fellows, talk about sports, women, relationships.

They're trying to make me lose all my hair early.

They see it as a tradition and it's been going on for probably about 10 years. They bleach their hair blond. For what reason, I have no idea.

It sucked our hair straight up. I'm here to tell you, whoever did that movie 'Twister' has got it down.

They're insanely strong. Something the size of a human hair can pick up a human.

Amy Adams

Most of the time it's the parents who recognise me. They try to tell their kids, 'Look, it's Giselle,' and I say, 'No, no, no, don't ruin this for them,' because I'm usually standing there with my hair sideways and no make-up on. And the kid is saying, 'That is not Giselle. No way. That is some worn-out girl who really needs a bath.'

Walter Benjamin

When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race of people then you are making a statement and the statement is clear

Alexandra Adornetto

I was so worried that you wouldn’t want to know me once you found out.” I signed, relief flooding through me. “Are you kidding me?” Xavier reached out and curled a lock of my hair around his finger. “Surely I’ve got to be the luckiest guy in the world.” “How do you figure that?” “Isn’t it obvious? I’ve got my own little piece of Heaven right here.

A. S. Byatt

The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.

Abbie Hoffman

When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but because I have long hair.

A. E. Housman

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.

Robin Wright

I can't imagine having long hair anymore; it's weird.

Daniel Tosh

Recently started flat ironing my ball hair. Come on ladies, you know how it is; if you have curly hair you just want straight hair.

Dallas Willard

One does not miss heaven by a hair, but by constant effort to avoid and escape God.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

One of the strangest things about being an actor is that people you don't know feel that they are allowed to comment on your hair, body, clothes, relationships.

David Letterman

Sarah Palin is joining Fox News. The new slogan is 'hair and unbalanced.'

David Letterman

Donald Trump has a great campaign slogan: 'A complex world demands complex hair.'

David Letterman

Rick Perry has now accused Mitt Romney of hiring illegal aliens to work on his hair.

David Letterman

As you watch the Gary Condit interview, three words come to mind: stiff, unbending and impenetrable. And that's just his hair.

David Letterman

How would Trump travel as president? Obviously, he'd use Hair Force One.

David Beckham

I'm surprised I still have so much hair after all the things I've done with it.

Concha Buika

I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.

Conan O'Brien

Yesterday, after the Thanksgiving parade, Donald Trump appeared at Macy's to promote his new line of fragrances and business suits. Unfortunately, there were high winds and Trump's hair nearly killed two people.

Gia Coppola

When I was younger, I had pink underneath my hair, and I got detention. I went to an all-girls school where you wore a uniform, and pink hair was not OK.

Dan Savage

There's going to be some places where you're treated with respect and dignity and some places where you'd have to be a fool to live, .. So, there will be places where people can get their hair done well and places where they can't.

Daria Werbowy

And of course there is nothing better than wearing the same T-shirt for days and not brushing my hair for weeks,

Cormac McCarthy

When he went back to the fire he knelt and smoothed her hair as she slept and he said if he were God he would have made the world just so and no different.

We used to do each other's hair all the time,

Denis Hayes

This set of recommendations is ecologically responsible, but it's not putting a hair shirt on Seattle.