Foreheads Quotes - Page 8

• As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Men, Village

  William Shakespeare, Juliet Dusinberre (2006). “As You Like It: Third Series”, p.269, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Everybody in America is a part of this big herd of cattle being led to the marketplace, not to be sold, which is usual with cattle, but to do the buying. And everyone is branded. You see the brands - Nike, Puma, Coke - all over their bodies. Pretty soon you'll go to a family and say, "$100,000 if we can tattoo Pepsi on your child's forehead, and we'll have it removed when he's twenty-one. A hundred grand."

  George Carlin

  Tattoo, Nike, Children

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• The man who now confronted Gashford, was a squat, thickset personage, with a low, retreating forehead, a coarse shock head of hair, and eyes so small and near together, that his broken nose alone seemed to prevent their meeting and fusing into one of the usual size.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Eye, Men

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.65

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• The next innovation, Sensavision, will be like a Walkman attached to your forehead. You won't actually have your head wired because infrared wires will send signals to you. In 2007 Mick Jagger will be on stage, and when Mick feels heat, you'll feel heat.

  Tony Verna

  Innovation, Wire, Next

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• As President, I will institute a procedure in which all convicted criminals will have this brass ring will be surgically implanted into their foreheads-Americans have a right to know who they can trust. I don't care if you're 5, 6, or 7 years old, if you're a first-time offender, you're gonna go to Purgatory and it's not gonna be fun!

  Bob Backlund

  Fun, Years, President

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• A hat is a shameless flatterer, calling attention to an escaping curl, a tawny braid, a sprinkling of freckles over a pert nose, directing the eye to what is most unique about a face. Its curves emphasize a shining pair of eyes, a lofty forehead; its deep brim accentuates the pale tint of a cheek, creates an aura of prettiness, suggests a mystery that awakens curiosity in the onlooker.

  Jeanine Larmoth

  Eye, Unique, Curves

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• My parents would always trace the sign of the cross on our foreheads before they kissed us goodnight.

  Vincent Nichols

  Parent, Crosses

  "My only ambition is to lead a good life. Full stop" by Cole Moreton, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2009.

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• All men should be required to have their marital status tattooed on their foreheads.

  Gemma Halliday

  Men, Tattooed, Should

  Gemma Halliday (2010). “Spying in High Heels: High Heels Mysteries book #1”, p.97, Gemma Halliday Publishing

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• Focus your attention on the center of your forehead. Visualize that there is a slow but steady swirl of white light there. Visualize that the white light above your forehead is slowly moving in a clockwise direction.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Light

  Frederick Lenz (2014). “Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel”, p.103, St. Martin's Press

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• It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, no dainty tread, no elegant velvet throat. It's a splotchy, blotchy city cat, not a pretty cat, a rough little bag of old bones. 'Beauty,' we shall call you. 'Beauty' come in.

  Eve Merriam

  Stars, Home, Cat

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• I know I have a big, big head. Hats, a lot of times, do not fit me. What is the average head size? Maybe like 16 inches. From the center of my forehead around to other side might be a foot, give or take four inches.

  Dule Hill

  Feet, Average, Giving

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• Do you know why more people don't sober up? Because they don't wear their livers on the outside. If everyone wore their liver on their forehead, say, it would be on full view and people would say, 'Heffens, Jock, that liver of yours is looking fair hobnailed,' and they would get shamed into doing something about it.

  M.C. Beaton

  Drinking, Sober Up, Views

  M.C. Beaton (2009). “Death of a Poison Pen”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• The pale and quiet moon Makes her calm forehead bare, And the last fragments of the storm, Like shattered rigging from a fight at sea, Silent and few, are drifting over me.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fighting, Moon, Sea

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.8

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• They linger near the back door, forehead to forehead and curved like statues as their lips whisper and brush together.

  Lisa McMann

  Doors, Together, Lips

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Fade”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Um, Bella? You've got a huge cut on your forehead, and it's gushing blood," he informed me. I clapped my hand over my head. Sure enough, it was wet and sticky. I could smell nothing but the damp moss on my face, and that held off the nausea. Oh, I'm so sorry, Jacob." I pushed hard against the gash, as if I could force the blood back inside my head. Why are you apologizing for bleeding?" he wondered as he wrapped a long arm around my waist and and pulled me to my feet.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sorry, Cutting, Blood

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• It’s true, and I was really hideous as a preteen. Tall and gawky. I used to bump my head into everything. Still do sometimes. (Kat) You are my daughter. (Acheron) Sure I am, I can’t imagine you ever being uncoordinated. (Kat) Oh, I assure you I’ve nailed quite a few signs with my forehead. It’s a wonder ‘Exit’ isn’t permanently imprinted right between my eyes. (Acheron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Daughter, Eye, Bumps

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• There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family.' "She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. 'You still have a family,' she whispers.

  Gayle Forman

  Kissing, Hair, Waiting Rooms

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• I'm sorry." "Be sorry you lied," he said, pressing a kiss to my forehead. "Don't be sorry you loved him. That's part of you, part you have to let go, yeah, but still something that's made you who you are.

  Richelle Mead

  Letting Go, Sorry, Kissing

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Spirit Bound: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.116, Penguin

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• When they came to harvest my corpse (open your mouth, close your eyes) cut my body from the rope, surprise, surprise: I was still alive. Tough luck, folks, I know the law: you can't execute me twice for the same thing. How nice. I fell to the clover, breathed it in, and bared my teeth at them in a filthy grin. You can imagine how that went over. Now I only need to look out at them through my sky-blue eyes. They see their own ill will staring then in the forehead and turn tail Before, I was not a witch. But now I am one.

  Margaret Atwood

  Nice, Eye, Cutting

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• Lucern felt himself "She called my erections wonderful?" Entienne just gaped, then raised a fist to knock on his brother's forehead as if it were a door "Hello! Earth calling Luc! She thinks it's rigor mortis.

  Lynsay Sands

  Brother, Thinking, Rigor Mortis

  Lynsay Sands (2011). “The Vampire eBook Collection”, p.408, Hachette UK

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• She is close enough to me that I can see her, because even now there is the outward sign of visible light, even at night in this parking lot on the outskirts of Algoe. After we kiss, our foreheads touch as we stare at each other. Yes, I can see her almost perfectly in this cracked darkness.

  John Green

  Kissing, Night, Light

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• Aren’t you afraid they’ll arrest you? (Shahara) I wasn’t a convict, Dagan. I was an illegally purchased slave. My owner has no legal claim on me. And I’m no longer a kid learning my powers. I’m a full-grown man with an ax I want to bury in the forehead of anyone dumb enough to come at me. I defy the bastards to try something now. (Nero)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kids, Men, Dumb

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• To his surprise, she leaned over and kissed him on the forehead, a kiss so full of affection that it dispelled the awkwardness, even as it caused Miles' heart to plummet, because all kisses are calibrated, and this one revealed the great chasm between affection and love.

  Richard Russo

  Heart, Kissing, And Love

  Richard Russo (2017). “Empire Falls”, p.272, Atlantic Books

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• Sadie got up and kissed Amos on the forehead. “Leave it to us, Uncle. I’ve got a plan.” “That,” I said, “sounds like very bad news.

  Rick Riordan

  Uncles, Sound, News

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• His lips pressed against her forehead and she felt him smile against her skin. "Believe me...the only place in the world I want to be is wherever you are." -Grant Morgan

  Lisa Kleypas

  Believe, Skins, World

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