Skeleton Quotes

115 quotes by 101 authors

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment. — Adam Gopnik
Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with… — A. E. Coppard
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with… — Jane Goodall
Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee… — Edith Head
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority… — Aldous Huxley
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life. — Arthur Koestler
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a… — Audre Lorde
Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet. I compare… — Christian Louboutin
The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks. — Henry Miller
There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless. — Wilson Mizner
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. — George Bernard Shaw
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. — George Bernard Shaw
Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is… — George Edward Woodberry
Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. — Virginia Woolf
With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring… — Angela Carter
He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he… — Michael Ondaatje
Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them — Terry Pratchett
The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come… — Rick Riordan
The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show… — Simone de Beauvoir

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