Ribs Quotes

169 quotes by 141 authors

People who are knowledgeable about poetry sometimes discuss it in that knowing, rather hateful way in which oenophiles talk about wine: robust, delicate, muscular. This… — Anna Quindlen
But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see and elfin thorax, attentuated, its pencilline ribs all in parallel rows… — Sallie Tisdale
I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth. — Hisham Matar
I have been there, and I have seen these totally formed babies as early as ten weeks...with the leg missing, or with their head off.… — Unknown Author
In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that… — H. L. Mencken
When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured into narcissistic special-interest… — Sherman Alexie
I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body. — Dion Boucicault
There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a… — Christine de Pizan
The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists,… — David Foster Wallace
The retreat and disappearance of glaciersâ€”there are only 160,000 leftâ€”means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by… — Gretel Ehrlich
The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread,… — Megan Abbott
The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills… — Kevin Powers
I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest… — David Attenborough
The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam. — Robert Herrick
Located two ribs below the heart, it is called hate. — Ibi Kaslik
I'm not saying eating babies should be legal, but when they're so delicious, what's the harm in it? I don't know what tastes better, their… — Zach Braff
I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death. — John Milton
Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite… — Guy Pearce
The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet… — Sophia Loren
How are my ribs? They're so meaningless it's hard to believe, — Harry Reid

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