I’ve always wanted to smash a guitar over someone’s head. You just can’t do that with a piano.
Know who you are and stay true to it. Have a point of view, keep your head down when noise tries to drown out your inner voice, and whatever you do, keep pushing.
Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I’ll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I’ve written a whole song in an hour.
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
‘9 to 5,’ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‘I Will Always Love You,’ it just keeps comin’ back, popping up its head in one way or another.
I chose Rio Ave because I had something in my head about wanting to do it differently to how I had done it in my past. Something new.
I wish I had more hair on my head. Maybe if I sprinkled fertilizer on it, it would grow.
I’m telling you, until I shaved my head, I never realized how much heat is lost through the top of the head. I walk out in winter and it feels like I have an ice pack on my head. Unbelievable.
If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
The universe is chaotic and meaningless, and it’s good to laugh about it. That’s my stance on life, actually. Some people go through life grinding their teeth, suffering and banging their head against the wall. I’m glad that’s not the reaction that occurs in me.
We are moving toward a global economy. One way of approaching that is to pull the covers over your head. Another is to say: It may be more complicated – but that’s the world I am going to live in, I might as well be good at it.
I’ve never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.
We are all captives of the picture in our head – our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
I’m the head of my home. And I have to get my daily bread by chasing Christ.
The mark of higher education isn’t the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It’s the skills you gain about how to learn.
I’d stand on a coffee table, and my cousin Edith would give me dimes, and you put the dimes on your head… And when your forehead was full, show was over.
I had assumed I’d pack my bags and head elsewhere after ‘Constellation,’ but Chechnya is creeping its way into the margins of my second book.
I think a big part of success in football is mental, not physical. How you are inside your head matters more.
I mean, I haven’t been around very long. I can’t expect everyone to have seen ‘The House Bunny’. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I’m admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head.
I wouldn’t say I’m a Method actor, but I do try to focus very deeply on what character I’m playing, and everything else goes out the window. I forget about everything. I try to get everything else out of my head.
The biggest thing as a head coach, you want to make sure you exhaust every option.
Mark Emmert, the head of the NCAA, makes millions. Coaches today are making millions. Who’s not making anything? I don’t want to hear about they get scholarships. Yeah, they get scholarships all right, they earn those scholarships.
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Any time you stick your neck out in high school, there’s someone right there to chop your head off.
Although I come from a family who are Muslim – my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian – my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
I look thuggish when I shave my head and wear big boots. I walk into a newsagent and people think I’m going to jump the counter.
I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint.
It’s something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it’s incredibly unreal and it’s all about the action, and just explosions.
Usually after finishing a novel, I have a head full of bad ideas for the next one.
I don’t know what other people think about me being the boss, but I really like a collaborative work environment, and I don’t have a problem being at the head of that.
Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.
I can put my legs behind my head, but that’s pretty much it. An early agent said to me, ‘If you can put your legs behind your head, let’s say you’re a contortionist!’ So I got sent out for everything twisty and bendy. It’s a good conversation starter.
One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Sometimes life’s so much cooler when you just don’t know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.
Student life taught me a lesson – never bow down your head. Be straightforward and bold in whatever you do.
I was a fan of Henk Groot, former striker of Ajax, who scored many goals with his head. I thought, ‘I can do that also,’ but I couldn’t.
The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
I like shows or films or books that have messages but don’t beat people over the head with them.
I am very proud of The Saints and I’m very glad that I’ve been associated with them all these years, but the next record is the best record… has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head’s at.
The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge.
When I was nine, I got my head stuck in a bucket trying to be Darth Vader.
I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.
The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.
One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.
I avoid social media and articles written about me, because I’m human and negative comments pollute my head and make me feel confused about myself.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
It seems as if, for every dragon head that is lopped off, two more terrible appear. Seems so. But in truth, Life is gaining all the while. Brute force, such power as there seems to be in things, cannot stand against ideas which are eternal.
Games bring another level out in you. There is no way you can train to the same intensity when you are playing a game. It is just impossible. Your head won’t allow you to do it. Because the adrenalin of a game and the importance of it steps it up to another level.
They set a low bar for Donald Trump, and he banged his head on it.
The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad.
Essentially, it is the director who is the creative head of a film. The final authority on all decisions lies with the director. That is how it should be. And then other team members can give their creative inputs.
Eve was not taken out of Adam’s head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
Keeping your head down and just writing is only part of the equation, so I surround myself with smart people to help sell my books.
It’s usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It’s such a cliche to say that artists write when they’re down, but it’s true for me. It’s a relief to get out what’s eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.
