Headache Quotes - Page 8

• 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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• What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit- man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!

  Allen Ginsberg

  Dream, Moon, Men

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.29, City Lights Publishers

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Years, Class, Hot

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• your culture has become sophisticated, like a computer, or a drug that you take for a headache. You can use it, but you cannot explain how it works. Certainly not to girls who stack up their firewood against the side of the house.

  Chris Cleave

  Girl, House, Drug

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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• "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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Do what you love, but be damned sure it's profitable. If you do work you love, but it doesn't generate income, your business will fail. If you do work you hate, but it generates income, your health will fail... and your business along with it. If you can't do what you love and make it profitable, you've either got a hobby or a headache, not a sustainable business. Don't settle for anything less than passion and profit.

  Steve Pavlina

  Business, Hate, Passion

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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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• I get a headache when I hear supporters of this endless warfare complaining about the federal budget deficits. They're like arsonists complaining about the smell of smoke in the neighborhood.

  Bob Herbert

  Smell, Warfare, Complaining

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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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• It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches. First of all, this would be proof of your lack of stamina. And then, migraines, piercing pain and sudden stabs at the temples are more likely the effects of syphilis than of hard work.

  Louis Aragon

  Pain, Reading, Hard Work

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• We deal with all the production headaches and all that stuff. They just have to come here and be super funny. And it's worked out well. I mean, literally, every day they're all saying things I'd never thought I'd hear before and just some of the funniest discussions I've ever heard.

  Jeff Schaffer

  Mean, Stuff, Super Funny

  "'The League' Bosses on the Final Season and Their Best Draft Concept Yet". Interview with Dave McCoy, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 9, 2015.

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