Headache Quotes - Page 8

• Nothing seems crueler--or more ironic--than these upper crusters who never pay a dime for their high-priced shrinks or reflexology sessions to call those who just want that tumor removed from their uterus a bunch of commies. Well, the revolution is at hand and let's hope all those uninsured commies give the rich such a headache that a whole bottle of Advil won't be enough to take the pain way.

  Michael Moore

  Pain, Hands, Giving

  Michael Moore (2004). “Dude, Where's My Country?”

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• It's late, I'm tired, and your cigarettes are giving me a headache," I growled. "I suppose that's fair." He drew in on the cigarette and let out the smoke. "Some women think they make me look sexy." "I think you smoke them so you have something to do while thinking up your next witty line." He choked on the smoke, caught between inhaling and laughing. "Rose Hathaway, I can't wait to see you again. If you're this charming while tired and annoyed and this gorgeous while bruised and in ski clothes, you must be devastating at your peak.

  Richelle Mead

  Sexy, Witty, Tired

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• I quit drugs before I quit drinking because drugs were taking their toll on me. I was sick of the headaches and the puking and the shitting blood. I figured I'd stop everything but alcohol, but then I overcompensated with drinking. Now I'm totally clean because I don't choose to do either.

  Lars Frederiksen

  Drinking, Blood, Sick

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• Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Laughter, Champagne

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• I never felt the same passion for the game in the States and there were a lot of headaches, a lot of obstacles to overcome - it didn't just run itself for the love of the game because soccer is not the No. 1 sport as it is in Europe.

  Hope Solo

  Soccer, Sports, Running

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• I wondered if all of us churchgoers were just exhausted by grief. For the dying priest and us, I thought, "God" always refused to become glorious, instead stubbornly remaining plain, a headache, a sorrowful knot of language.

  Virginia Heffernan

  Grief, Suffering, Sorrow

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• You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.

  John Irving

  Tattoo, Men, Giving

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• Did you love well what you very soon left? Come home and take me in your arms and take away this stomach ache, headache, heartache.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Home, Heartache, Arms

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• The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry.

  C. S. Lewis

  Long, Feelings, Promise

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• I deserved the shaking and the headaches and the fact that every single time I took a breath I felt a squeezing in my chest, my heart beating even though I wished it wasn't.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Heart, Facts, Squeezing

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• Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

  Chinua Achebe

  Giving, Thought Provoking, Prescriptions

  "Anthills of the Savannah". Book by Chinua Achebe, 1987.

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• Come home with me, Acheron. I’ll make it well worth your while. (Artemis) I have a headache. (Acheron) You’ve had a headache for two hundred years! (Artemis) And you’ve had PMS for eleven thousand. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Home, Years, Pms

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• Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more than the headache of building consensus in a gridlocked capital on behalf of a polarized public.

  Ron Fournier

  Victory, President, Campaigns

  "Ron Fournier Is Smarter Than You Are" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. December 17, 2013.

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• Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Summer, Home, Holiday

  "Mind the beer, dear" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2006.

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• The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was Beauty and the Beast. I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it’s very physical. I had headaches everyday for two months.

  Hugh Jackman

  Two, Dancing, Singing

  "Hugh Jackman Peed Himself On Stage In Production Of ‘Beauty And The Beast’". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

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• Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?

  Emeril Lagasse

  Mean, Giving, Bed

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• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Appearance, Minimum, Mines

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• When Elton John sang a duet with the white rapper Eminem on a Grammy telecast, rap went mainstream. Massive parental headaches followed.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Rap, White, Duets

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• When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

  Joel Osteen

  Thinking, Mad, Enemy

  "Joel Osteen: The Man Behind America's Largest Church". Interview with Kristi Watts, www.cbn.com.

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• This is a tremendous assest for the club, a tremendous headache lifted from our shoulders, really.

  Elton John

  Soccer, Clubs, Shoulders

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• "Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?" Which was a ten on the 'imbecilic question' scale of one to ten. "Why, I feel fine, Jeb," I said brightly. "How about you?" "Any nausea? Headache?" "Yep. And it's standing here talking to me."

  James Patterson

  Talking, Nausea, Max

  "Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports". Book by James Patterson, May 29, 2007.

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• The hardest thing in a novel is time. You've got [a line like] "two weeks later, he woke up with a headache," and you've got to add up that entire two weeks and what the date is and whether it works. That kind of stuff drives me crazy and if I don't have it exactly right, I can't move forward because I don't feel confident.

  T.C. Boyle

  Crazy, Moving, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I need to shop because generally, I really do style myself. It's easier to wear clothes that are true to who you are. But if it's a headache, I'll ask for help.

  Cassie Ventura

  Clothes, Style, Needs

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The religion I have is music. Even the times I have headaches, when I'm singing, I can't feel them. My dad used to say that, too, especially near the end of his life. He would be in pain - a lot of pain - and he said the only time when he didn't feel pain was when he performed and sang.

  Rosanne Cash

  Dad, Pain, Singing

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 21, 2010.

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• The general manager is kind of like the step into darkness when you reach the top of the league. As GM, you're responsible for everything, including the maitre d's and the sommeliers - all these people who have their own agendas. But you probably make less than the maitre d' and have a lot more work and a lot more headaches.

  Joe Bastianich

  People, League, Darkness

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