Head Quotes

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

You don't lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

I'm trying to interpret the film through the director's head, but it all comes out through me. So, a composer is kind of like a psychic medium.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.

One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.

The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.

Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy.

I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.

His mouth is for export and his head has no entrance.

I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.

I think too much. Being in my body is much more satisfying than being in my head.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

The ballplayer who loses his head, who can't keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.

I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

The information is in the people, not in your head.

Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

You either mellow at 30, or your head explodes - take your choice.

My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.

Some of the funniest people I know are not screwed up in the head.

I ran into an extraordinary doctor. He got up inside my head and figured out how my brain processed things, what my core values were, what my inner dialogue was.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Whatever I hear in my head is what I play.

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.

I've spent several years now with my head down.

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state.

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.

Because, when I'm making music, I don't think about anything, you know? All I think about is what I want to hear. So that for me is what I want - I want my head to be constantly being rearranged.

Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'

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.

I paint my own reality. 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.

I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it!

In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.

I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

I have a very nappy, curly head.

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.

Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.

I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual,' but bi-curious? Yea.

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.

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.

I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.

There are a lot of new opportunities that are poking their head up in my future. I've been very fortunate that way, but for right now, what I like is what I'm doing.

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.

I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.

It is important to keep your head up and follow what you believe is right.

I was not influenced by Jack Benny, and people have remarked on my timing and Jack's timing, but I don't think you can teach timing. It's something you hear in your head.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

I live in my head all day long and the world is a little dreamy.

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.

Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.