I said: "A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces". In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be… — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not… — Rembrandt Peale Copy Share Image
It's rare that I've read a script where I'm like, "Oh, my god, it's hilarious!" All you want is a good skeleton… — Nick Swardson Copy Share Image
She’s not… She’s not datin’ the skeleton, is she? How would that be even possible, let alone… nice? He’s got no skin,… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it.… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire'… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Another boat, a straight-four, four sweep oarsmen without a coxswain, raced through our flotilla. I looked at them as they jetted past,… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
I build a book the way coral reefs are built: millions of little calcareous skeletons piling up one atop another, though in… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were.… — John Hench Copy Share Image
There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got… — Donny Osmond Copy Share Image
Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around… — Nicholas D Kristof Copy Share Image
By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South… — Robert Adam Copy Share Image
“If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Everybody knows pretty much everything about me. I emptied all the skeletons out of my closet a long time ago. — David Feherty Copy Share Image
Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to… — Viktor Korchnoi Copy Share Image
Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image