Hair Quotes

"Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts"

Jim Morrison

"Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous."

P.G. Wodehouse

"Interviewer: 'So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?'Frank Zappa: 'You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?"

Frank Zappa

"My eyes are bronze, my hair is turning silver, and my heart is gold. Oh, and my love for you belongs in the Olympics, because it’s Special."

Jarod Kintz

"I’m 33, and an 18-year-old girl called me old. I said, “You may be temporarily young, but you’ll forever be childish.” Then I put gum in her hair."

Jarod Kintz

"I watched the leaves change colors, and I thought, “People do that too. Their hair changes color as they age.” I remember that as my grandpa got older, his hair went from green to yellow to red, like a traffic light, only with slightly less honking."

Jarod Kintz

"Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you."

Cynthia Hand

"All things old become new again. In my youth the athletes had crew cuts and the hippies had long hair. Now the athletes have long hair and the hippies are bald."

Harley King

"Her hair was longer than it used to be, and it veiled her shoulders like a shawl. She used it for protection. If there was one thing Sydney knew, it was hair. She loved beauty school and loved working in the salon in Boise. Hair said more about people than they knew, and Sydney understood the language naturally."

Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

"... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever."

Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

"Well, in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he is capable of anything."

Frank Zappa

"I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald."

Marjane Satrapi, The Complete Persepolis

"If when you think of yourself, you think only of your physical body –even if you are physically fit and firm, at your ideal weight with beautiful hair, eyes or lips- if that is how you gauge your success, you are mistaken"

Sunday Adelaja

"Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles."

Benedict Cumberbatch

"As your abilities begin to grow, your angelic side will start to manifest itself in more noticeable ways.""My angelic side. Great. Like I don't have enough to deal with.""It's not so bad," Mom says. "You'll learn to control it.""I'll learn to control my hair?"

Cynthia Hand, Unearthly

"He had the prettiest hair she had ever seen on a man: dark brown, almost black, and soft like sable, it fell down to his shoulders. She wondered what he'd do if she threw some mud in it. Probably kill her."

Ilona Andrews, Bayou Moon

"In Science don't confound Normal static electricity To ecstatic eccentricity. Here is what I found: Electric charges As they rise up your hair In contrast with a discharge, Rarity leaves you up in the air!"

Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic

"Your hair is winter fire,January embers.My heart burns there, too.-Stephen King, IT"

Stephen King

"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."

Anna Kavan, Ice

"It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it."

Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

"Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"I think that the most important thing a woman can have- next to talent, of course- is her hairdresser."

Joan Crawford

"There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all."

Nora Ephron

"the girl with a moustache" they called me every now and then"It's about time you wax your arms" those who "cared" saidI faced the fears of the dreaded thread on my faceTo succumb every other week to the world's ways"

Sanhita Baruah

"She was the most beautiful creature on Earth - her hair said so in that language only hair can speak."

Gabriel Bá, Daytripper

"Long hair will make thee look dreafully to thine enemies, and manly to thyfriends: it is, in peace, an ornament; in war, a strong helmet; it...deadens the leaden thump of a bullet: in winter, it is a warm nightcap; in summer,a cooling fan of feathers."

Thomas Dekker, The Guls Horne Booke, 1609

"I’ve seen knives pierce the chest,Children dying in the roadCrawling things hooked and baited,Rapists bound and then castrated,Villains singed in public square.Yet none these sights did make me cringeLike when my Love cut all her hair."

Roman Payne

"And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair."

Heinrich Heine

"Some days after, the girl encountered her again, in a dream, as she was years ago: a very slender young woman in a long white skirt, her amber hair to her waist, her eyes coal black with ardor."

Gina Berriault, Stolen Pleasures: Selected Stories of Gina Berriault

"The greatest thinkers have attempted to find who we are where we come from and why we are here but the greatest enigmas to me are how your hair is a lasso that captures the stars how your eyes are lakes that drown my doubts and how your skin is the sun bursting all at once. If I knew these answers I’d know everything for you alone contain the entire universe."

Kamand Kojouri

"He sat there looking at her smiling and laughing, watching her hair fall over her eyes and she setting it back behind her ear, He turned away bowed his head down and smiled himself looking back at the sky."

Akshay Vasu

"Her wavy, shoulder-length hair was the colour of polished mahogany."

William Hjortsberg, Falling Angel

"Does God knowthe number of kissesbefore we fall in love?Yesterday, I was nobodyand I believed myself important.Today,I feel my worth in you.You, with your emerald eyes and ebony hair,even your heartbeat is beautiful.You, who is my greatest joy,all other concerns vanish in your presence.You swallow timeand consume space,inspiring all my passionwith a single embrace.I love your existence."

Kamand Kojouri

"My toes are a total wreck, my fingernails worse, and god knows my hair could use a registered nurse."

Jack Bunbury, He/She Smells a Hoo-Hoo

"Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart."

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

"There will be those who love you for your hair and those who love the beauty of your mind and those who adore the warmth of your heart. but there will be those who will leave you for not conforming to their type of hair, mind and heart. And there will be those who will live/die to see your bad hair days, derailed mind, and broken heart. but what matters most is Who You Are"

Goitsemang Mvula

"I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair, and stars in her soul."

Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy

"Leaving town I sat next to a senseless and beautiful boywho asked where I live.His unwashed hair or the way his eyes were just eyes…the soul is a tiring thing. You can have it.I don’t know what you mean’s what I told him.It’s more simple than that. I’m just passing through."

Alex Dimitrov

"It was an odd situation. For a century and a half, men got rid of their own hair, which was perfectly comfortable, and instead covered their heads with something foreign and uncomfortable. Very often it was actually their own hair made into a wig. People who couldn't afford wigs tried to make their hair look like a wig."

Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

"Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its color and texture when the mood strikes us, but in time it will return to its original form, just as Nature will in time turn our precisely laid-out cities into a weed-way."

Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses

"Naked you are blue like the night in Cuba,you have vines and stars in your hair,"

Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

"While my body might say, "I'm small and vulnerable," my hair warns, "DON'T MESS WITH ME."

Lindsey Stirling

"Don't ask me why am I not fine, don't say a word just come and hug me. Even if I don't hug you back at that very moment, don't let me go. Hug me more tightly, let me hear your heart beating for me, let me feel the warmth of you inside your arms when your hand is rubbing my back and your fingers are moving through my hair, burn down all my insecurities with your love."

Akshay Vasu

"Even baldness becomes a beauty of a hairless head through the heart of acceptance"

Munia Khan

"Who cares what colour your hair or what shape your shape is? Who cares what religion your religion or what language your language is? What is the colour of your heart? That is all that matters!"

Mehmet Murat ildan

"The adult age begins with the blessed single strand of a grey hair."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

"I was the first face you saw when you were born, you were bald as my hair ran black. Now yours the last face I saw before I died, your hair ran black, as I was bald."

Anthony Liccione

"Do the lovers know that when they whisper these poems they are commemorating our love?Do they ever think of you and meor only of themselves?Do they know that I once found a strand of your hairand wore it around my necklike a necklace?That I kiss your handsmore than I kiss your lips?Do they realise that our love and their love are drops in the universe’s ocean of loveand that without any of these drops, the ocean would be less?"

Kamand Kojouri

"I have a message for your daughter,” said Cale. “I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the cool wind plays with her hair, it may be my shadow passing by.” And with this terrible threat he faced forward and the procession started once more. In less than a minute they were gone. In her shady room Arbell Swan-Neck stood white and cold as alabaster."

Paul Hoffman, The Left Hand of God

"Growth of human hair is the absolute blessing for a barber"

Munia Khan

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