Bones Quotes · Page 14

I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.

— Lauren Oliver

Wall Street is littered with the bones of those who knew just what to do, but could not bring themselves to do…

— William J. Bernstein

We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body.

— Brent Smith

“She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.”

— Jefferson Smith

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Great Way has no gate. Clear water has no taste. The tongue has no bone. In complete stillness, a stone girl…

— Seungsahn

My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear.

— Ann Aguirre

Any man who has ever led an army, an expedition, or a group of Boy Scouts has sadism in his bones.

— Tahir Shah

I laugh every day. There are days when my laughs are pretty hollow. Dust comes out of your mouth, and your bones…

— James L. Brooks

I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and…

— Henry David Thoreau

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a…

— Ann Richards

Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun,…

— Robert Browning

I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released, you refused…

— Melina Marchetta

When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is…

— Stephen King

Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes…

— Matt Wagner

They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least…

— Colum McCann

I was just happy the fight was over, I knew my arm was broken in the fight. I definitely wasn't going to…

— Rich Franklin

We as women know that there are no disembodied processes; that all history originates in human flesh; that all oppression is inflicted…

— Andrea Dworkin

I don't know what to say about Asians. I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically…

— Tao Lin

I can only wonder what astronauts must feel like or something like that when you're really in the space of silence and…

— DJ Spooky

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light. In helping others to succeed I…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses,…

— Frances Power Cobbe

In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their…

— T. S. Eliot

You win over people just like you win over a dog. You see a dog passing down the street with an old…

— David Wilkerson

Caves and darkness can't hold you when you die, they can only hold your bones.

— N.D. Wilson

I know, although when looks meet I tremble to the bone, The more I leave the door unlatched The sooner love is…

— William Butler Yeats

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

— Mike Tyson

If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.

— Mother Teresa

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.

— Alex Faickney Osborn

Care to see your room?” -Bones Let me guess—it’s that smashed‐up car right over there." -Cat

— Jeaniene Frost

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

— Antonin Artaud

Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

— Philip Pullman

I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones.

— Philip Roth

The fact is that some of the mice [tested on with AZT] have contracted cancer. It attacks bone marrow. It is very…

— Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little…

— William Shakespeare

The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.

— Fletcher Knebel

I knew that I was gay in every bone of my body. So I did the only thing I could do. I…

— Harry Hay

... Rebel against the flesh and bone, The word of the blood, the wily skin, And the maggot no man can slay.

— Dylan Thomas

Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'

— Yoko Ono