Foreheads Quotes - Page 2

• The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Loss, Stuff, Firsts

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.100

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• January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Evil, Theatre, Months

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• They would glue the wig to the front of my forehead, and after a while it would give me a headache.

  Cesar Romero

  Giving, Glue, Wigs

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• Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

  Lady Gaga

  Party, May, Kind

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• Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.

  Jeff MacNelly

  Writing, Simple, Typewriters

  "Fictional character: Prof. Cosmo Fishhawk". "Shoe" by Jeff MacNelly, 1977-2000.

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• Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead.

  Hugh Jackman

  Simple, Thinking, Wife

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• Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!

  Juan Ramon Jimenez

  Stars, Moon, Sky

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• Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves and curlicues of ash blonde and gold. Her eyes were bright, big, clear, wet and shining, the colour of her cheeks was real, breaking close to the surface from the strong young pump of her heart. Her body hovered delicately on the last edge of childhood -- she was almost eighteen, nearly complete, but the dew was still on her.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Strong, Real, Heart

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• I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Courage, Needs

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• When did you get so smart?" He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I'm passing all my classes with my eyes closed now, but I just can't get over this craving for krill." He shrugged. "And I feel sorry for the whale that got my brain. Probably swimming around Florida now trying to catch glimpses of girls in bikinis.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Sorry, Smart

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• So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

  John Milton

  Morning, Stars, Ocean

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 166

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• To see was terrifying, and to stop seeing tore me apart from my forehead to my throat.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Throat, Seeing

  Maurice Blanchot (1981). “Folie Du Jour”

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• She would make facial expressions as though she were having conversations with people in her head.They seemed to turn into debates more often than not,judging by the activity on her forehead...It was almost the conversations in her head were loud enough to fill her silence.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Expression, People, Judging

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• I am not too keen on my nose, I don't like my knees, I hate my ankles, I am unsure about my behind, I don't like my legs at all. I am not too sure about my chin, my forehead is a bit dodgy. But, overall, I can live with it.

  Helen Mirren

  Hate, Ankles, Noses

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. December 5, 2008.

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• I like to do designs on the side of my face, or cut out foil stickers from the crafts store and put them on my forehead.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Cutting, Design, Crafts

  "Khloe Kardashian's Best Makeup Advice". Interview with Lauren Brown, www.glamour.com. January 8, 2013.

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• I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Thinking, Skulls, Producers

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• I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.

  John Cusack

  Girl, Home, Acting

  "Being John Cusack". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 23, 2009.

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• But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I was going to be one of those Americans who traversed Italy with my forehead knit in concentration, divining wordsw from their Latin roots and answering by wedging French cognates into Italian pronunciations spliced onto a standard Spanish verb conjugation.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Latin, Animal, Italian

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• There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Thinking, Hands, Body

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• His heart's occupied elsewhere," said Ben from behind me. "And even if it weren't he's not interested in your kind. But, I'm available and ready." "You don't have a heart," I told him.” Just a gaping hole where it should have been. " "All the more reason for you to give me yours. " I pounded my forehead against Warren 's back. "Tell me Ben's not flirting with me. " "Hey," said Ben sounding hurt. "I was talking cannibalism, not romance.

  Patricia Briggs

  Hurt, Heart, Flirting

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• His forehead was covered by wrinkles brought on by a lot of sun and too much frowning.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Wrinkles, Frowning, Too Much

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.

  Zadie Smith

  Baby, Kissing, Baptism

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.382, Vintage

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• If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.

  George Orwell

  Book, Men, Rich Or Poor

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.118, Lulu.com

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• Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Writing, Dark, Men

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Three Men and a Maid: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.27, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Is there anything else you need from me?" Ranger asked. "Not right now." "There will come a time," Ranger said. "Let me know when." And he disconnected. I opened the freezer and stuck my head in to cool off. If there'd been any more innuendo in that conversation, I could have fried an egg on my forehead.

  Janet Evanovich

  Eggs, Needs, Conversation

  Janet Evanovich (2008). “Fearless Fourteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.215, Macmillan

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