Skeletons Quotes
171 Skeletons quotes by 145 unique authors
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It isn't easy to become a fossil. ... Only about one bone in a billion, it is thought, becomes fossilized. If that is so, it…
— Bill Bryson
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He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, color,…
— Unknown Author
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The laws of nature are the skeleton of the universe. They support it, give it shape, tie it together. Taken as a whole, they embody…
— James Trefil
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The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.
— James Salter
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Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof huts Wet processions…
— Allen Ginsberg
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After I die, wherever my spirit goes, I'm going to try to get back and visit my skeleton at least once a year, because, "Hey,…
— Jack Handey
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The tired and thirsty prospector threw himself down at the edge of the watering hole and started to drink. But then he looked around and…
— Jack Handey
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If you want to sue somebody, just get a little plastic skeleton and lay it in their yard. Then tell them their ants ate your…
— Jack Handey
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It's not good to let any kid near a container that has a skull and crossbones on it, because there might be a skeleton costume…
— Jack Handey
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It's fascinating to think that all around us there's an invisible world we can't even see. I'm speaking, of course, of the World of the…
— Jack Handey
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The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.
— Mark Twain
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One thing you’ll say for skeletons, they’ll always give you a smile.
— Steve Aylett
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Don't lie to your partner. Ultimately the expression on your face gives you away, and they feel betrayed by the lie. If this is the…
— Vanessa Lachey
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I have no skeletons in my closet.
— David Vitter
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Another boat, a straight-four, four sweep oarsmen without a coxswain, raced through our flotilla. I looked at them as they jetted past, and I quickly…
— Brad Alan Lewis
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Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful…
— Dan Simmons
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Not since the Lord himself showed his stuff to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones had anyone shown such grace and skill in the…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
— Brian Eno
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The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.
— Ellen Hopkins
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I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.
— Thom Yorke
Who Wrote These Skeletons Quotes
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