Combs Quotes - Page 2

• What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Hair, Made

  Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenit︠s︡yn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset, William Butler Yeats (1971). “Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Rabindranath Tagore, Sigrid Undset [and] William Butler Yeats”

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• In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in an attic. I wanted to polish him with kisses, clean him up, make him evevn more radiant than he was. "That's what you always want," he said softly... "When you found me under Les Innocents," he said, "you wanted to bathe me with perfume and dress me in velvevt with great embroidered sleeves." "Yes," I said, "and comb your hair, your beautiful russet hair." My tone was angry. "You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Children, Eye

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• Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Life, Giving

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• You don't comb the mirror, you comb your own hair and the mirror changes.

  David Icke

  Mirrors, Hair

  Twitter post from Mar 29, 2012

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• Under the comb, the tangle and the straight path are the same.

  Heraclitus

  Path, Straight Path

  Heraclitus (2003). “Fragments”, p.46, Penguin

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• A girl asked me if she could comb my hair. Nobody can comb my hair, I can’t even comb my hair.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Girl, Hair, Ifs

  Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting At Zero: His Own Story”, p.64, A&C Black

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• Since the Puffy Combs case in New York, I will not try any more criminal cases

  Johnnie Cochran

  New York, Trying, Criminals

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• The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Fall, Boys

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.241, Scholastic Inc.

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• The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and the prognostications and the turmoil, the disagreements and the fateful decisions and agreements and the plans and the programs and the threats and the counter threats, then you close your eyes and the sea dispatches one more big roller in the unbroken line since the beginning of the world and it combs and breaks and returns foaming and saying: "So soon?" E. B. White "On A Florida Key

  E. B. White

  Eye, Keys, Florida

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• When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.

  E. B. White

  Adventure, Pajamas, Hours

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• Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy & peaceful.

  Sylvia Plath

  Hair, Peaceful, Feelings

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.45, Hamilton Books

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• I'm working on the world, revised, improved edition, featuring fun for fools blues for brooders, combs for bald pates, tricks for old dogs.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Dog, Fun, World

  Wislawa Szymborska, Stanisław Barańczak, Clare Cavanagh (2000). “Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hair, Water, Faces

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• Yes, I'm too mad to punish you right now. We'll talk about it when we get home. Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put on dry clothes, and get the guns. We're going to Wal-Mart.

  Ilona Andrews

  Home, Gun, Hair

  Ilona Andrews (2016). “Alphas: Origins”, p.101, Penguin

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• A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He spends most of his life in bars, arguing with other dishevelled, bespectacled writers. He says very 'deep' things. He always has amazing ideas for the plot of his next novel, and hates the one he has just published.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hate, Glasses, Hair

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• Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs the appearances of the word, and of the particular lover's history, out of a random tangle and into a coherent plot.

  A. S. Byatt

  Falling In Love, Desire, Plot

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• By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

  Janet Jackson

  Birthday, Hair, Age

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• Throughout high school, I was obsessed with magazines. I used to just comb through them and plaster things on my wall.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Wall, School, Magazines

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• My approach is to be honest-really honest-and consistent. That is what any growth will take. It is an issue I think [young] generation can be courageous enough to comb through.

  Michaela Angela Davis

  Thinking, Young Generation, Issues

  Source: www.naturallycurly.com

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• I always seem to be chosen to do very flattering things like the beard comb over or go to the bathroom with the door open on Sex and the City or be the guy people meow at in Super Troopers. It's great for self esteem.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Sex, Self Esteem, Doors

  "Ask Jim Gaffigan". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. November 28, 2007.

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• When the honey's out of the comb, there's no putting it back.

  Robert Jordan

  Honey, Wot

  Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, Maria Simons (2015). “The Wheel of Time Companion: The People, Places and History of the Bestselling Series”, p.421, Macmillan

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• It's always the same, Combs walks, Koening singles, Ruth hits one out of the park, Gehrig doubles, Lazzeri triples. Then Dugan goes in the dirt on his can.

  Joe Dugan

  Yankees, Ruth, Dirt

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• I try to look nice. I comb my hair, I tie my tie, I put on a jacket, but I draw the line when it comes to trimming my eyebrows. You work with what you got.

  Andy Rooney

  Nice, Hair, Eyebrows

  "Great lines from "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney". www.cnn.com. November 5, 2011.

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• A person who combs his hair over his bald spot, hoping no one will notice.

  Rich Hall

  Humorous, Hair, Spots

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• The little bee returns with evening's gloom, To join her comrades in the braided hive, Where, housed beside their might honey-comb, They dream their polity shall long survive.

  Charles Tennyson Turner

  Dream, Long, Bees And Honey

  Charles Tennyson Turner, James Spedding (1880). “Collected Sonnets, Old and New”

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