Lewis Carroll Quotes

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

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• At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.

  

  Ziaur Rahman
  • Taken
  • Head
  • Direction

• I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • You
  • Give
  • Answer

• I know there is a bounty on my head, such as there is with many other leaders and protesters.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Know
  • Head
  • Leaders

• Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Death
  • Head
  • Pure

• I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Hair
  • Back
  • Head

• In ancient British times, the whole country belonged to tribes, and the tribes owned their several districts. At the head of each tribe was the chief.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Country
  • Head
  • Whole

• I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Head

• I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Running
  • Yoga
  • Head

• I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Understanding

• The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Wisdom
  • First
  • Answer

• And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Challenge
  • Answer

• Don't think. Get out of your head. Stop planning and just go.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Stop
  • Planning
  • Head

• People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Live
  • Question

• An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.

  

  Nelson Goodman
  • Effort
  • Lies
  • Interest

• There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Woman
  • Head
  • Marquise

• I fear not," Hamilcar said gravely, shaking his head. "It seems to be the fate of all nations, that as they grow in wealth so they lose their manly virtues. With wealth comes corruption, indolence, a reluctance to make sacrifices, and a weakening of the feeling of patriotism.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Head
  • Shaking
  • Hamicar

• There’s no need to look at a machine to find what is twelve times twelve. The answer is indelibly there.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Answer
  • Machine
  • Indelibly

• Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Thinking
  • Reading
  • Head

• I had no direction. I thought, 'I need to make a difference in my life,' and music was my answer.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Life
  • Music
  • Direction

• It's nice having a heart and a pussy too!

  

  Michelle Rodriguez
  • Heart
  • Nice
  • Pussy

• Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Care

• The school systems at my childhood had enough money or enough parent involvement that they felt like learning music and songs, and exploring the whole pop or classical canon, were just as important as algebra or biology. Music is such a visceral and tactile experience for a kid, and to just replace that with video games or something that doesn't have the same sort of physical impact would definitely be a poor choice, and have a negative impact.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • School
  • Kids
  • Song

• His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Head
  • Answer
  • Sieve