Bones Quotes · Page 19

The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

— Leonardo da Vinci

The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.

— Robert Benchley

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Hey now, none of that. You know I don't have one evil bone in my body. Only two hundred and six of…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs.

— Clive Cussler

it sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics...

— Sarah Dessen

You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.

— Will Rogers

Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was…

— Johnny Cash

At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the…

— Deepak Chopra

“Once a man is truly dead and carried pale and cold across the Styx--once Old Bones has put an arm about his…

— Ian Weir

One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a…

— Richard Leakey

Dividing the swing into its parts is like dissecting a cat. You'll have blood and guts and bones all over the place.…

— Ernest Jones

When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love…

— Anne Michaels

My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense…

— Michael Franti

The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the…

— Roger Wicker

The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with…

— Rebecca Wells

It's why I get miffed at all the dashing around in recent zombie films. It completely misses the point; transforms the threat…

— Simon Pegg

Last night, we did the Threatdown -- God, it's hard to even talk about this -- and for the first time, I…

— Stephen Colbert

Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Shame on you, Crispin. Married how long, and you haven't spanked your wife with a metal spatula yet?" I'd gotten used to…

— Jeaniene Frost

I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late…

— Jerome K. Jerome

It's a quiet place, so people talk quietly," said Naoko. She made a neat pile of fish bones at the edge of…

— Haruki Murakami

I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question…

— Anne Sexton

Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what’s inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I am short a cheek-bone and an ear, but am able to whip all hell yet.

— John M. Corse

Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.

— Anonymous

I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's…

— Liam O'Flaherty

“I can't fight, or shoot a gun. But if something bad happens, I can spit with deadly accuracy.”

— Angela Montenegro

Through the chill of December the early winter moans... but it's that January wind that rattles old bones.

— John Facenda

if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want

— Richard Yates

I figure if I keep my spirit in shape, the bones will take care of themselves.

— Rita Moreno

Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate

— Jean de La Fontaine

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

— Ambrose Bierce

I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.

— Fannie Flagg

My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.

— Theodore Roethke

“Fingers with no dexterity and legs too weak to walk, the result of old age and tired old bones.”

— Ghillie

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

— Rose Kennedy

Work your fingers to the bone and what do you get? Boney fingers.

— Hoyt Axton

[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.

— Barry Lyga

...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

— Laini Taylor