Bones Quotes

1518 quotes by 1080 authors

A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone. — Keith Miller
I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the… — G. Willow Wilson
The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now. — Abraham Lincoln
Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get… — Ann Richards
This is what we see when we look up at Rainier, the beauty, the horror, the awe the unbelievability of size that confirms our own… — Bruce Barcott
What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could… — Osamu Dazai
I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So… — Jesmyn Ward
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone. — William Butler Yeats
Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they then… — Pierre Bayle
The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. — Vera Nazarian
...Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the… — Robinson Jeffers
I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight grains… — Theodore Roethke
I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones… — Ben Nicholson
In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that… — Mike Tyson
The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar. — Constance Hale
In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted… — Khalil Gibran
How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains… — William Shakespeare
Life's bare as a bone. — Virginia Woolf
Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer. — Dan B. Allender

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