Throwback Quote by Ilsa J. Bick

“tamed his blond hair by cropping it short, but a rebellious sun-streaked strand curls over one”

— Magda Alexander

“The tinker in his burial tree was a wonder to the birds. The vultures that came by day to nose with their hooked beaks…

— Cormac McCarthy

“the black hair that grew on the backs of his”

— Jenny Barden

“He had an egglike head, froglike jaws, and a grey hairy fringe of aureole round the lower part of his face; the whole combined…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The hair compromise he finally agreed to is a white strip on the left side – geriatric punk, he’d whispered to himself – with,…

— Margaret Atwood

“To a casual passerby, his appearance would not have inspired much confidence. His overcoat was patched in spots and frayed at the cuffs, he…

— John Stephens

“Standing at the original Victorian counter was a man in a long black leather coat. His hair had been grown to counteract its unequivocal…

— Julia Stuart

“March 1958 issue, for example, notes that “Dave Van Ronk, like so many other Village characters, has affected a beard.”

— Dave Van Ronk

Earlier, there were only two hairstyles. If the hero had a fringe, he was village bumpkin. If he slicked his hair back, he was…

— Shabana Azmi

“Sharp-nosed and thin-lipped, with dark eyes framed by black plastic eyeglasses, haircut and shave long overdue. He felt familiar. Then I realized I was…

— Louise Miller

“With his buzz-cut black hair, muscles and menagerie of tattoos, the man looked like he lived in a cave and sanded timber with his…

— Cari Silverwood

“He had dreadlocks, which is what some black people have, but he was white, and dreadlocks is when you never wash your hair and…

— Mark Haddon