Headless Quotes

• Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Individuality, Wicked World

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• The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Moving, Spiritual Wisdom

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• There's nothing like a headless corpse to bring a touch of excitement into one's life.

  Chet Williamson

  Excitement, Corpses

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• The only safe enemy was a headless enemy.

  Robert E. Howard

  Enemy, Safe

  Robert E. Howard (2016). “Jewels of Gwahlur”, p.37, Robert E. Howard

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• Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone, and irrational as a headless hen.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Patriotism, Fever, Stones

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2230, Delphi Classics

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• I was really fascinated by the idea of how cunning and calculating Headless Horseman would be, and how much personality you can actually get from somebody when they're not expressing. They can do a lot of attitude, just within their body movements.

  Roberto Orci

  Attitude, Ideas, Personality

  Source: collider.com

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• By headless Charles see heartless Henry lies.

  Lord Byron

  Lying, Heartless

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.468, Delphi Classics

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• Imagine if the headless horseman had a headless horse. That would be chaos. I would think that if you were the headless horseman's horse, you would be very confused. "I don't think this dude can see."

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Horse, Confused

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• So he has no head' 'Thats usually what headless means' 'No head at all?' 'Your really not getting the whole headless thing are you?' 'Its just kind of silly even for us.

  Derek Landy

  Silly, Mean, Kind

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• Keep your lips and other body parts to yourself or you’ll be headless. (Apollymi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Body, Lips

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• I read about a guy in Michigan this winter who was cruising along on his snow mobile. "Whoo hoo!" Didn't see a barbed wire fence. FOOM - cut his head right off. And I'll be honest with you, my first thought was... That's how I want to go. Having the time of your life, "whoo hoo!" FOOM. I want the last thought in my head to be, 'Hey, check out that headless snow mobile driver. He's got a jacket just like mine.'

  David Crowe

  Winter, Cutting, Snow

  "Bob & Tom Comedy All-Stars Tour". Comedy, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.

  Richard Blumenthal

  People, New Friendship, Networking

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• A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to skip both the doughnut toss and the march of the headless plush toys. Instead, I just heated up a skillet of plastic soldiers, poured a milkshake over my head and called it a night.

  David Sedaris

  Night, College, Drug

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.

  George Santayana

  Dragons, People, Stupidity

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.77, 谷月社

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• Movies. Drinks. Headless chickens. You know, girl stuff.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Girl, Stuff, Drink

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• It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.

  Robley Wilson

  Cat, Animal, Boredom

  Robley Wilson (1978). “Living alone: fictions”, Fiction Intl

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• Vayl, this is not a pleasant moment for me," I confessed. "No?" "Locked in a windowless, doorless room with a dancing, headless corpse and a secret sucker that can move fast enought to tear us both a new one if I miss?

  Jennifer Rardin

  Moving, Dancing, Missing

  Jennifer Rardin (2011). “Bitten To Death: Book four in the Jaz Parks sequence”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• There had been no more attacks since those on Justin and Nearly Headless Nick, and Madam Pomfrey was pleased to report that the Mandrakes were becoming moody and secretive, meaning that they were fast leaving childhood.

  J. K. Rowling

  Childhood, Leaving, Becoming

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• Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy,
  Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey.

  Action Bronson

  Rap, Essence, Hip Hop

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• There whil'st the world prov'd prodigal of breath, the headless trunks lay prostrated in heaps; this field of funerals sacred unto death, did paint out horror in most hideous shapes: whil'st men unhors'd, horses unmast'red, stray'd, some call'd on those whom they most dearly lov'd, some rag'd, some groan'd, some sigh'd, roar'd, promis'd, pray'd, as blows, falls, faintness, pain, hope, anguish mov'd.

  William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

  Horse, Pain, War

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• I would rather die than betray his trust." "That's not saying much, seeing as you're already dead," Ron observed. "Once again, you show all the sensitivity of a blunt axe," said Nearly Headless Nick in affronted tones.

  J. K. Rowling

  Tone, Blunt, Said

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• Clairvoyant, Hornblower could foresee that in a year's time, the world would hardy remember the incident. In twenty years, it would be entirely forgotten. Yet those headless corpses up there in Muzillac; those shattered redcoats; those Frenchmen caught in the four-pounder's blast of canister -- they were as dead as if it had been a day in which history had been changed.

  C. S. Forester

  Years, Twenties, Would Be

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• We wanted to present the Headless Horseman in a new light. That's where the fun comes in, of just diving in.

  Roberto Orci

  Fun, Light, Diving

  Source: collider.com

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• It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the hidden life is by means of symbol; if it were not for the recurring evidence of murder – the disemboweled rabbits, the headless flickers, the torn squirrels – we should forever imagine our cats to be simple pets whose highest ambition is to sleep in the best soft chair, whose worst crime is to sharpen their claws on carpeting.

  Robley Wilson

  Ambition, Mean, Sleep

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