Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? 'Tis that every mother's son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You have skeletons, too, Carter Shaw. Don't think I don't know it. I think...I think people with secrets, or with a past,… — Nyrae Dawn Copy Share Image
Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
My curiosity was in no way cruel. Deviations from the commonplace attracted me strongly, as they still do; and to me the… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events.… — Catherynne M. Valente 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
The key to skeleton is to find the line, and I think I spend most of training figuring out where that sweet… — Katie Uhlaender Copy Share Image
My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it. — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The bones of the skeleton which support the body can become the bars of the cage which imprison the spirit. — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies. — Elmer Rice Copy Share Image
“Writers wear their skeletons on their sleeves. While the rest of the world locks them in a closet.” — Zachary Koukol Copy Share Image
Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath ... — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You'd better put sunblock on that skeleton head of yours. You're gonna fry." -Bobby — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Go get wood, Nuckal," grumbled the skeleton. "'Pick up those rocks, Nuckal.' 'Stop eating all the donuts, Nuckal.' Orders, orders, orders, that's… — Greg Farshtey Copy Share Image
History counts its skeletons in round numbers. A thousand and one remains a thousand, as though the one had never existed: an… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“Once we get to know where and why the skeletons of the past are buried, we can start wading across our muddled… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
In families there are frequently matters of which no one speaks, nor even alludes. There are no words for these matters. As… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces… — Adoniram Judson Gordon Copy Share Image
Six hundred years is an awfully long time, Ever. So long it's impossible for either of us to imagine. Though it is… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
It's not too difficult to get the skeletons out of the closet with people, but to get the gold out is a… — Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The homes of so many skeletons. People who used to fight over the last blueberry muffin at the breakfast table, get down… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
It was a total and absolute surprise to find out that what was inside the concentration camps was a sea of skeletons.… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll have a scene that strikes me, I just feel like writing a scene, a mini-story that seems like it might… — Shane Black Copy Share Image
The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet.” — Jefferson Smith Copy Share Image
A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days? — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet… — Drake Copy Share Image
A lawyer's job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people's closets. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
