Haircuts Quotes

“She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free...”
― Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

“But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers

“I’ve seen daggers pierce the chest,
Children dying in the road,
Crawling things hooked and baited,
Rapists bound and then castrated,
Villains singed in public square.
Yet none these sights did make me cringe
Like when my Love cut all her hair.”
― Roman Payne

“But the uproar this caused was nothing compared with the uproar when Katronia noticed [Rosie] had also cut her eyelashes. Various negotiations (including, finally, such desperate measures as "supposing you ever want to eat again") eventually produced the grudging promise that, in return for Katronia keeping her hair cut short, she would leave her eyelashes alone.”
― Robin McKinley, Spindle's End

“Growth of human hair is the absolute blessing for a barber”
― Munia Khan

“There is a husband who requires mileage receipts, another who wants sex at three a.m One who forbids short haircuts, another who refuses to feed the pets. I would never put up with that, the other wives think. Never.”
― Jenny Offill, Dept. of Speculation

“Having a haircut is like cleaning the bedroom of your thoughts.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, running is flying intermittently

“The distant women bowed themselves; Nordic women who lived with their eyes looking at servants, as they were waiting; glaring in an intense white aspect, because they were athletic; because they had haircuts.”
― Jarrett McCall, The Breathing Advocate

“[As in puberty,] There will be tears. And anger. And tragically unfortunate haircuts.”
― Heather Corinna, What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You

“Hair, pulled back or braided. Maybe it was time for a big trim. At certain points things weighed you down.”
― Naomi Shihab Nye, There Is No Long Distance Now

“I will be doing two things tonight well . . . 1, Drinking in your establishment and 2, Growing my Hair Long”
― Kevin Kolenda