Hair Quotes - 4
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O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, ally the heat That flames from their large nostrils! thou,O Summer, Beneath our oaks hast slept while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.
william blake— 1783 Poetical Sketches,'To Summer'.
Full on this casement shone the wintry moon, And threw warm gules on Madeleine's fair breast, As down she knelt for heaven's grace and boon; Rose-bloom fell on her hands, together prest, And on her silver cross soft amethyst, And on her hair a glory like a saint: She seemed a splendid angel, newly drest, Save wings, for heaven.
john keats— The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems, "The Eve of St. Agnes", stanza 25 (1820).
The blessed damozel leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even; She had three lilies in her hand, And the stars in her hair were seven.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti— 1870 Poems,'The Blessed Damozel', stanza1.
Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.
— 1930 'ForAnne Gregory', l.16-18. Collected in TheWinding Stair and Other Poems (1933).
There is no normality in life. Having two houses means that we can get out of each other's hair - which, let's face it, we've both got a lot of
helena bonham carter— Of her relationship with Tim Burton
You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.
taisen deshimaru— As quoted in Just Before Dark : Collected Nonfiction (1999) by Jim Harrison, p. 39
Who hath not saved some trifling thingMore prized than jewels rare,A faded flower, a broken ring,A tress of golden hair.
ellen clementine howarth— 'Tis but a Little Faded Flower, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 12.
I've had experiences before where a director is like, "Yeah, I wanted a blonde." Have you heard of hair dye?
michelle trachtenberg— Interview by Michael J. Lee, Executive Editor for Radio Free Entertainment May 24, 2005
As you look at Wendy, you may see her hair becoming white, and her figure little again, for all this happened long ago. Jane is now a common grown-up, with a daughter called Margaret; and every spring cleaning time, except when he forgets, Peter comes for Margaret and takes her to the Neverland, where she tells him stories about himself, to which he listens eagerly. When Margaret grows up she will have a daughter, who is to be Peter's mother in turn; and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
j. m. barrie— Ch. 17 (Peter & Wendy (1911))
She had a lot of face and chin. She had pewter-colored hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak, and large moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones.
Raymond Chandler— chapter 2 (The High Window (1942))
If you was bleach and I was hair, I wouldn't die (dye) fo' ya'!
eminem— "That's All She Wrote"
When happily ever after fails And weve been poisoned by these fairy tales The lawyers dwell on small details Since daddy had to fly But I know a place where we can go Thats still untouched by man Well sit and watch the clouds roll by And the tall grass wave in the wind. You can lay your head back on the ground And let your hair fall all around me. Offer up your best defense But this is the end This is the end of the innocence.
don henley— "The End of the Innocence" (co-written with Bruce Hornsby)
Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.
herbert hoover— Quoted in the New York Times (17 October 1964)
The fragrant hair, Falling as through the silence falleth now Dusk of the air.
james joyce— Tutto è Sciolto, p. 13
A flushed face, white hair and a twinkle in his eye; and this twinkling got him out of scrapes that would have sunk a worthier man without trace.
james bolivar manson— Kenneth Clark, quoted in Frances Spalding, The Tate: A History (1998), pp. 62–70. Tate Gallery Publishing, London. ISBN 1854372319.
If you make a decision in your life, even one as eminently logical and self-improving as "Why'd you start washing your hair every day?" and you start getting questioned hourly about it, you're going to start second-guessing yourself.
keith olbermann— "Mea Culpa: My Apology to ESPN," Salon.com (2002-11-17)
Herr God, Herr Lucifer, Beware. Beware. Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And I eat men like air.
Sylvia Plath— "Lady Lazarus"
Man is in pursuit of two goals: he is looking for happinesse and, being by essence empty ("étant vide par essence", Fr.), he is trying to fill (or take up, - "remplir", Fr.) his life; the latter reason play a more considerable role than we ordinarily think. What we take for vainglory, ambition, love of power and riches (or wealth), is often, indeed, a need to mask this emptiness, a need to let one's hair down (or to live it up), to put oneself on a false scent or trail. (de se donner le change", Fr.)
african spir— p. 56 (Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir (1937))
And though it be a two-foot trout, 'Tis with a single hair pulled out.
— Samuel Butler, Hudibras.
Those curious locks so aptly twin'd, Whose every hair a soul doth bind.
thomas carew— Thomas Carew, To A. L., Persuasions to Love, line 37.
But she is vanish'd to her shady home Under the deep, inscrutable; and there Weeps in a midnight made of her own hair.
thomas hood— Thomas Hood, Hero and Leander, 116.
His hair is of a good colour. An excellent colour; your chestnut was ever the only colour.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, As You Like It (c.1599-1600), Act III, scene 4, line 11.
As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.
torquato tasso— Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered. Hoole's trans, line 581.
A man does not become a Brahmana by his platted hair, by his family, or by birth; in whom there is truth and righteousness, he is blessed, he is a Brahmana. (Verse 393)
— Translator: F. Max Müller (Quotes)
I rest content; I kiss your eyes, I kiss your hair in my delight: I kiss my hand and say "Good-night."
— Joaquin Miller, Songs of the Sun-Lands. Isles of the Amazons, Part V. Introd. St.
The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair; The Grecian gods are like the Greeks, As keen-eyed, cold and fair.
walter bagehot— Walter Bagehot, Literary Studies, II. 410. Ignorance of Man.
Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd, That fires the length of Ophiucus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book II, line 707
On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
— Edgar Allen Poe, Helen.
"And all you sucker MCs just can't compare to a Shire b-boy with the shaggy hair, we're two hobbit rappers with the savoire-faire, Rohan Riders put your fist in the air!"
— Lords of the Rhymes, "Nine-Fingered Frodo"
— The Lords of the Rhymes claim to be hobbit rappers from J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth.
Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair .
— Judith Light, in Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, & Brilliant Remarks, p.195
