My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I can throw away all my hair, then I have the freedom to trash any part of the book on the next rewrite.
As a football team, you head into the season the same way with confidence and a positive mindset that you are going to win a bunch of football games.
My head is full of songs I’m writing now, and things I am thinking now. I’m not very good at drawing on things that have happened, things I think might happen, or things I want to happen. I’m very much in right now.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul.
Keep a cool head and a warm heart.
I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn’t do it, and that really annoyed me.
The first song that I had that went platinum was ‘Keep Your Head Up,’ which was a long time ago. Then, you get ‘one-hit wonder’ with that.
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.
An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
It’s really never fair to judge people because none of us know what’s going on inside anyone else’s head.
A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn’t use it.
I still think carefully about what I’m going to say. I use me heart and head technique, in which the heart says, ‘get stuck in, Dennis!’, and the head says, ‘just a minute… ‘ But I probably don’t use this as often as some others.
When you look out the window of a spaceship, you see entire countries, vast swaths of continents. One turn of the head covers what once took thousands of years to traverse at ground level.
I want to keep my head in the game, my ego low.
Sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up with a song in my head, and I have to finish it so I can fall back asleep.
I actually remember being in 3rd grade and piecing together in my head that one of my guy friends was homosexual.
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
At the peak of his scientific triumphs, Newton became a ‘head,’ a student of the inner spiritual world – or in modern terms, a neurologician. Modern physicists do not dwell on this dramatic life-change in their hero.
Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.
Each year, several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental defects because of vitamin A deficiency. Countless others are harmed by malnutrition and starvation. Yet many of these deaths would be preventable if we addressed them head on and used the tools that exist to stop them.
You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you’ve got to kick your players in the rear end. You’ve got to cuss them out. You’ve got to hit them across the head. No. You don’t have to do that.
I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.
Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
The reason most people don’t express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It’s what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
I was on the train from London to Paris, and all of a sudden it just popped into my head: I’m going to do the Don Loper fashion show from ‘I Love Lucy.’
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes – or just by staring into space.
I love Sunday-morning drives. I’ll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out.
In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.
If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.
I don’t think about the future. I don’t think about the past. I just think of what comes into my head at the time. So that might be about the past, that might be about the future. Or, the present.
When you fall head over heels for someone, you’re not falling in love with who they are as a person; you’re falling in love with your idea of love.
I’ve spent my life butting my head against other people’s lack of imagination.
I write music about what’s going on in my head, what I’m angry about, and what I think is wrong/right.
The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.
I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
A young man who isn’t a socialist hasn’t got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn’t got a head.
With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you’ll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.
When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
You should be falling asleep before your head hits the pillow because you worked so hard every moment of the day.
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.
Private schools are gaming the system. There is way too much state money going in, and people who go to private schools seem to be given a head start for all of the top jobs and that’s something that needs to be dealt with as well.
The Communist bloc of old was a study in the failure of failure. Losers in the Soviet economy were the people at the end of the long lines for consumer goods. Worse losers were the people who had spent hours getting to the head of the line, only to be told that the goods were unavailable.
He suffered from a rush of words to the head.
I always think if you speak to someone in their second language, you speak to their head. If you speak in their first, you speak to their heart. I’ve always tried to let players see that.
What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
Getting in my head and talking trash, that’s not going to work.
The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Very rarely do I talk off the top of my head on stage. I’m not an improv guy. I’m a writer-guy who presents what he’s written.
My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I’m a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, ‘Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!’ and I took that as a great compliment. That’s exactly my intention.
I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it.
The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.
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.
I’m better than Tupac and Biggie. I say that so now you know where my head at.
I’ve been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.
I definitely had a big head, and I’ll be the first to admit that I made some bad decisions. But back when I was making those decisions, in my head I was doing no wrong.
If something makes me laugh really hard, it sticks in my head or my heart or somewhere inside me.
I became famous for the fact that I would break many, many limits. People said, ‘He does all these crazy things.’ But oddly it was a crazy thing only because scientists and climbers said, ‘Everest and the 8,000-meter peaks without oxygen – impossible. Messner is becoming sick in his head.’
And I love kick boxing. It’s a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it’s just possible you haven’t grasped the situation.
I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn’t picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn’t a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you.
