Sometimes Americans don’t quite get my sense of humor. My good ol’ British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
You don’t really want nonagenarians as heads of organisations which are trying to do something useful.
Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We’ve got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don’t have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.
There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.
People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don’t vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.
I talk a lot about the men in my family because my mother died when I was little, and my grandmother died when my aunts were little, so we didn’t have those kinds of heads of household. But all the members of our household who were female were sort of living as equal and as wise as the male figures in our family.
You have a different, much more intimate relationship with the characters in a novel than when writing a screenplay. You’re able to get inside their heads in a different way. You can understand their motivations more.
There’s a lot about the character. It doesn’t always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.
The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people’s preconceptions of what they have in their heads.
What I don’t understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they have never been on a horse. They ought to have their heads examined, really. It’s a joke. But, let’s face it, we live in a fantasy world.
Almost everyone who’s been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.
When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
He knew a lot about his grandparents – and perhaps he feels he’s been endowed with abilities to go into people’s heads who are long dead – but, to a certain extent, he’s making it up.
We’ve learned to embrace our own physical shadows by leaning on each other and Once to find motivation and energy to keep our heads up and stay healthy.
It was a real honor to be able to work with someone like that that I’ve been watching since I was a kid. I mean, to play his brother left some people scratching their heads but something about it really worked.
People can’t get their heads round the idea of a species surviving; you know, they’re more concerned about how you treat a donkey in Sicily or something.
There’s, like, a dark needle or a nail that lives at the back of all of our heads, and that’s your fear.
As the Chief Minister, I make it a point that review meetings are conducted every day – sometimes more than thrice a day – involving heads of all departments concerned.
It was Martin O’Neill who said, ‘You’re a central midfielder.’ He put faith into players. He was very clever at getting into players’ heads, leaving little remarks to make me believe more. The players at Villa all moved up another level under him.
Waiters are like actors waiting in the wings, bantering whenever we passed each other on the restaurant floor, shouting at each other backstage in the kitchen and winking and corpsing above the heads of our audience, the unsuspecting customers.
Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But when I got there, the Rat Pack were all in the kitchen laughing their heads off.
I’ve never had any interest in reading the real-life stories of criminals. I don’t want to get inside their heads.
I take time with each person and try to remember them, especially if they’re a repeater from another event. I know a lot of authors just sign a book and keep their heads down, but I’m not like that.
Because at bottom, I’m interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people’s heads.
I like to dribble. I like to turn heads with the ball.
Individual scientists cannot do much on their own. Heads of nations, corporates, and economic giants should recognise the criticality of it.
We hold our heads high, despite the price we have paid, because freedom is priceless.
In a long story like ‘Weathercraft,’ it becomes kind of convoluted. It can become perhaps difficult to remember what led up to whatever point you’re at. I worried a little bit about people being able to keep the shape of the story in their heads while they were reading it, and not wonder how they got wherever they were.
Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.
What we hold in our heads – our memory, our feelings, our thoughts, our sense of our own history – is the sum of our humanity.
In Israel’s short history, army commanders and the heads of the intelligence agencies have often advocated the use of force and in many cases showed contempt for the law and human rights. Political leaders have typically been more measured.
We don’t think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power.
Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they’ve built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.
I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I’ve done, is there’s only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.
A large part of Canada heads for Florida, California, and Hawaii in the winter to get away from the snow.
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.
When I was young I was getting more money than the old heads. I was smarter and tighter, so whoever’s team I was on was at an advantage.
We can vote our hearts and our heads for someone who can win, Bernie Sanders.
I always thought that I would not wear shades when I become a star. I was like, ‘Why do we have to wear glares? People should recognize you when you stop at the signal.’ You want heads to turn towards you… and if it doesn’t happen, it is a nightmare.
I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.
It’s much more fun, I think, to watch something physical than just heads talking to each other. I like watching people fall down and push each other.
I never want to confuse people or go over their heads.
More than any other president, save perhaps John F Kennedy, whose father ran a film studio, and Ronald Reagan, a leading man and governor of California, Trump is on a buddy basis with media moguls, a speed dialer with the heads of studios and media conglomerates.
The generation we live in, we’re constantly entertained – we turn our heads this way, and there’s something else to entertain us. Sitting down in one seat for two hours may not be enough anymore.
Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.
We have to make sure that women’s issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.
Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.
There are times when we look back and think, ‘Do you remember when we had to lug a piano downstairs to a basement of some venue to play for five people?’ We do a lot of reminiscing. It helps us keep our heads on straight.
My teacher Tom Spanbauer, the man who got me started writing in his workshop, used to say: ‘Writers write because they weren’t invited to a party.’ That always struck so true, and people always nod their heads when they hear that. Especially writers.
We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let’s build an Indian gun. There’s a belief that Indian companies aren’t capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.
You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, ‘I really like your tie.’
I’ve always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn’t look so bad, huh? Well, OK you’re a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.
My speed as a tall guy is deceptive. You look at me and I might not look fast, but when I go out and play, people are left scratching their heads like ‘Where did that come from?’
The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.
