Skeletons Quotes
171 Skeletons quotes by 145 unique authors
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I've lived here ... my whole life. It's where I lost all my baby teeth. Where tiny hamster, gerbil, and bird skeletons lie in rotted-out…
— Jennifer McMahon
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Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe…
— Sherman Alexie
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We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.
— Marya Hornbacher
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Every heart has its own skeletons.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Its funny how certain objects convey a message -- my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever I pass them…
— David Sedaris
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You'd better put sunblock on that skeleton head of yours. You're gonna fry." -Bobby
— D. J. MacHale
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Her parents wanted her to find her own way in life. That’s what they’d said countless times in the past. Of course, they’d been referring…
— Derek Landy
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These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in…
— Sherman Alexie
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It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.
— Alan Moore
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Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive…
— Primo Levi
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Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath ...
— Terry Pratchett
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If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at…
— Rita Dove
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The word "metaphor" means carrying something from one place to another . . . and it is when you describe something by using a word…
— Mark Haddon
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But who are you?" Percy—" I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. "Gotta go!" What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?
— Rick Riordan
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Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in…
— Willa Cather
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...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought:…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll…
— Frederick Buechner
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Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived…
— John McPhee
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There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf,…
— Juliet Marillier
Who Wrote These Skeletons Quotes
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