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
A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Getting punched in the face with a padded glove doesn't really hurt your face. It doesn't hurt your skull. The only thing… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
If you're an archeologist, I bet it's real embarrassing to put together a skull from a bunch of ancient bone fragments, but… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
I feel occasionally my skull will crack, fatigue is continuous - I only go from less exhausted to more exhausted & back again. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little… — David Benioff Copy Share Image
Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
An expense of ends to means is fate;Morganization tyrannizing over character. The menagerie, or forms and powers of the spine, is a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls.… — Joel Davis Copy Share Image
I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
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
There may be organic life out there, or maybe machines created by long-dead civilizations, but any signals, even if they are difficult… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Does he think to scare me? Arya kissed him where his nose should be and plucked the grave worm from his eye… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
To value the tradition of, and the discipline required for, the craft of fiction seems today pointless. The real Arcadia is a… — Alexander Theroux Copy Share Image
For me, 'The Crystal Skull' was something I'd never done before, and I loved every minute of it. Working with Harrison Ford… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone’s face, just as… — Poppy Z. Brite Copy Share Image
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
All right. Tell me what I'm looking at." From the improvised Rolling Stones T-shirt bag tied to my sash, Bob the Skull… — Jim Butcher 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
My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness… — Tristan Tzara 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
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
I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want... The poet isn't always of use to the… — Heather McHugh Copy Share Image
Chain me with roaring bears; Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones, With reeky shanks… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
...The ...experts of the FDA have declared Laetrile to be worthless...quackery and fraud...These experts are the professional descendants of experts...confident that mental… — James J. Kilpatrick Copy Share Image
I'm not good looking. I'm very strange - a very bony face on an enormous skull, and I don't like to be… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Taro came into the room, strands of hair flying free of the tie at the back of his skull, sweat plastering his… — Moira J. Moore 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
Operating superficially, the mind is random in its activity and stale in its insights and images. However, with practice and experience the… — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
Dan moved forward and replaced Jonah at the helm. "I've got a plan!" "That's my man!" The famous grin disappeared as Jonah… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
The conservatives see man as a body freely roaming the earth, building sand piles or factories - with an electronic computer inside… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
