Top Skeletons Quotes Collection
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The sound of a harpsichord - two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.Collection: Skeletons
One thing you’ll say for skeletons, they’ll always give you a smile.Collection: Skeletons
I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.Collection: Skeletons
I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: "I am a tiger". When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.Collection: Skeletons
Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.Collection: Skeletons
Without the emotion and willingness of Spirit, our music becomes dry and dusty—without life. Without doctrinal bones as a skeleton, the Body is not enfleshed in a healthy way.Collection: Skeletons
I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. Its like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry.Collection: Skeletons
Everybody knows pretty much everything about me. I emptied all the skeletons out of my closet a long time ago.Collection: Skeletons
Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh.Collection: Skeletons
I have no skeletons in my closet.Collection: Skeletons
Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.Collection: Skeletons
If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.Collection: Skeletons
If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.Collection: Skeletons
Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built complete wardrobe on a limited budget. "Money," I tell them, "is no guarantee of taste and the fitness of things, and an overstuffed closet is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel."Collection: Skeletons
Now people don't know what it was in the Paris version, they put the skeleton at the end, not at the beginning. At least they've learn something!Collection: Skeletons
I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout provide a perspective from which one can read the image; otherwise we would do what Dadaists did when they put words in a little bag and then took them out at random in order to compose a poem.Collection: Skeletons
The bones of the skeleton which support the body can become the bars of the cage which imprison the spirit.Collection: Skeletons
Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.Collection: Skeletons
Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive we must force ourselves to save at least the skeleton, the scaffolding, the form of civilization. We are slaves, deprived of every right, exposed to every insult, condemned to certain death, but we still possess one power, and we must defend it with all our strength for it is the last — the power to refuse our consent.Collection: Skeletons
There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been.Collection: Skeletons
Do yourself a favor,' I said. "Forget it. Forget you ever saw me." "Forget that you tried to kill me too?" "Yeah. That, too." "But who are you?" "Percy-" I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. "Gotta go!" "What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?" I bolted for the exit.Collection: Skeletons
Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath.Collection: Skeletons
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water.Collection: Skeletons
It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.Collection: Skeletons
The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.Collection: Skeletons
But who are you?" Percy—" I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. "Gotta go!" What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?Collection: Skeletons
There is a skeleton in every house.Collection: Skeletons
I may not have any skeletons in my closet, but I do have a little box of souls in my sock drawer. —T-SHIRTCollection: Skeletons
China is the same age as I am, and even I have to admit that she wears it better!" He laughed, then stopped and peered at her. "Because I'm a skeleton" he explained.Collection: Skeletons
Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some new skeleton -- was emerging from beneath the softness of her accustomed self. With a deep, visceral ache, she wished her true form might prove to be a sleek and shining one, like a stiletto blade slicing free of an ungainly sheath. Like a bird of prey losing its hatchling fluff to hunt in cold, magnificent skies. That she might become something glittering, something startling, something dangerous.Collection: Skeletons
The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.Collection: Skeletons
None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.Collection: Skeletons
Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are about surviving, and what you look like when you emerge from the trial. The reason we keep telling fairy tales over and over, that we need to keep telling them, is that the trials change. So the stories change too, and the heroines and villains and magical objects, to keep them true. Fairy tales are the closets where the world keeps its skeletons.Collection: Skeletons
He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.Collection: Skeletons
A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?Collection: Skeletons
Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them.Collection: Skeletons
Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frameCollection: Skeletons
Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.Collection: Skeletons
Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends.Collection: Skeletons
From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.Collection: Skeletons
Structure is nothing if it is all you got. Skeletons spook people if they try to walk around on their own. I really wonder why XML does not.Collection: Skeletons
Suppose that insect wings developed primarily as thermoregulators and then were used for skimming and finally flying, evolving along the way. What would they be "for"? Or what is the skeleton "for"? For keeping one upright, protecting organs, storing calcium, making blood cells...?Collection: Skeletons
My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the hermaphrodite and the living skeleton were interesting for the same reason as was Creatore, or the resplendent Guardsmen of the bands - because such people did not often come my way, and I hoped that they might impart some great revelation to me, some insight which would help me to a clearer understanding of the world about me.Collection: Skeletons
I came from a very strict background. [So if you want to make a scary movie] if you were raised as a fundamentalist, just pull all the skeletons out of your closet.Collection: Skeletons
An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.Collection: Skeletons
Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.Collection: Skeletons
Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.Collection: Skeletons
Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.Collection: Skeletons
No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the key of caution inside, on the other side of the keyhole.Collection: Skeletons
We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.Collection: Skeletons