Bill Bryson Quotes

The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When you're in a beauty parlor in Harlem next to abandoned buildings and somebody's paying five grand for a weave, that's a bit much. I think this is, in a weird way, part of the health care debate. It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with that weave money.

My favorite author's question of all time - because it's so simple to answer ... 'Is your hair really like that, or do you get it done?

And it is a wonder what will be the fashion after the plagueisdoneastoperiwigs, fornobody will daretobuy any haire for fear of the infectionthat it had been cut off the heads of people dead of the plague.

In the first half of the 20th century, fashion was simply not a very English thing to do.

I don't know, so much of women's femininity is tied up with their hair.

It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.

Hair extensions and wigs are not the same thing. Wigs are for old ladies and drag queens. Extensions are for women who want longer hair. To be safe, never bring it up if you think a woman is wearing either. No good comes of it.

About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.

Electric red hair is more for, like, people in their 20s and early 30s.

Doesn't everyone have their hair done?

In beauty school, you learn etiquette.

I enjoy makeup and having someone who does my hair. What female wouldn't?

If I cut my hair, others did. If I shortened my dresses, so did everyone else.

I think that headband and that brylcreem and that gel on his hair will do him no good should we get it on.

When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs, and it was like not my era.

When I was Elvira, it was probably the phase of my hair getting too high. I thought that if really high hair was good, then really higher hair was even better. So I just started having my hair get higher and higher. In some of the pictures, we had to cut off the picture because it was like Marge Simpson. So that was embarrassing. The wig phase.

As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?

If the world is ending, a woman will want to fix her hair. If the world's ending, a woman will take the time to tell a man something he's done wrong.

People say to me, 'Do you dye your hair?' and I say, 'Well, does f**king Siouxsie Sioux? Does Bowie?'. Of course I'm going to have a decent haircut. It's one of the first things I learnt to do - get a few songs together and get your hairstyle right.

People get real comfortable with their features. Nobody gets comfortable with their hair. Hair trauma. It's the universal thing.

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.

I always love messing with my own hair as much as I can; I don't normally like to wear wigs.

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.