Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very… — Guy Murchie Copy Share Image
Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with… — Catharine Arnold Copy Share Image
You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things."… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
As in 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'?" The skull howled with laughter. "You just got your ass handed to you by a… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
I see ... a pile of skulls and bones. For the first time since my arrival, what I see before me is… — Dith Pran Copy Share Image
“Also, SKULLS. Gosh you love SKULLS. There is a good SKULL at the heart of any mystery, haunting its EVERY PAGE. That… — Andrew Hussie Copy Share Image
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
Rachel,” came a raspy voice from the upper level, and both Trent and I turned. It was Quen, wrapped in a blanket… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Homeopaths do not have a physical brain, but merely 'skull water' with the memory of brains. — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
With his sunglasses gone and his scarf hanging down, there was no denying that he had no flesh, he had no skin,… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Hail, high Excess especially in wine, To thee in worship do I bend the knee Who preach abstemiousness unto me My skull… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull. — John Updike Copy Share Image
“My life is like a memento more painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
In a sense, Open City is a kind of Wunderkammer, one of those little rooms assembled with bric-a-brac by Renaissance scholars. I… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image