Love is the worst earthquake there is. Can crush you to the thickness of your bones. Love can be like cancer sometimes.… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I realised that the question I had asked myself while writing this book [Swimming Home] was (as surgeons say) very close to… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
Even the presence of my kids cannot, during those writing hours, disturb me. Unless there's a bone sticking out of their arm,… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
There's this shop in New York I go to; it has bones and fossils and insects that are like works of art.… — Eva Green Copy Share Image
God knows the angel's wings must have been over us in view of the terrible mortality in all other camps up an… — Edward Dunlop Copy Share Image
I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image
I think it's always good to learn a craft from scratch the real way, so that you've learned it from the basis,… — Naomi Campbell Copy Share Image
The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what's worth the fight, and what is not. Honor and courage are… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I find that the old Roman baths of this quarter, were found covered by an old burying ground, belonging to the Abbey;… — Tobias Smollett Copy Share Image
You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
And there is my payment the rubies in your cheeks. Are you properly scandalized by your wicked behavior? If you were Catholic,… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Does it seem all but incredible to you that intelligence should travel for two thousand miles, along those slender copper lines, far… — Edward Everett Copy Share Image
There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made,… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones There's something in this richness that I hate. I love the look, austere, immaculate,… — Elinor Wylie Copy Share Image
What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
For me, there are a lot of things you can imagine as an actor, and then there are things that you know… — Rosemarie DeWitt Copy Share Image
In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood… — Evel Knievel Copy Share Image
Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for… — Lisa Leslie Copy Share Image
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
At the tips of the feathers there is air and at their base: blood. I hold up bones; I wish like broken… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You looked at me, your eyes huge. You we're like a dog then, waiting for me to throw you a bone .… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
In Britain, the great hidden secret of talking animals and children's literature is how political it was in its bones, beneath the… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Light like thin grey soup seeped through the windows. The door opened and Mrs. Dark came in, followed by her sister, who… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But… — John Ray Copy Share Image
Oh Wasn't it naughty of Smudges? Oh, Mummy, I'm sick with disgust. She threww me in front of the judges, And my… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
There's an incomparable rush that comes from finding dinosaur bones. You know you're the first person to lay hands on a critter… — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do.… — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
Dead girl walking” the boys say in the halls. “Tell us your secrets” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. "I am… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image