Skull Quotes

219 quotes by 183 authors

The skull is nature's sculpture. — David Bailey
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. — Ambrose Bierce
The mob that hounded Christ from Jerusalem to "the place of a skull" has never been dispersed, but is augmenting yet, as many of the… — Thomas De Witt Talmage
Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine the brain, that… — Diane Ackerman
Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic. — Stephen King
Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of… — Richard Leakey
It is not that it is religious or it is not religious, it is called attitude of gratitude, it is called thanking God for giving… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is composed of chemicals,… — Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of optimal excitability were luminous, then… — Ivan Pavlov
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around… — E. M. Forster
I was called up in the war and sent to a hospital. I dressed wounds, applied iodine, gave enemas, did blood transfusions. If the doctor… — Bertolt Brecht
God help the teacher, if a man of sensibility and genius, when a booby father presents him with his booby son, and insists on lighting… — Robert Burns
Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life… — Brian Aldiss
Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between… — J. G. Ballard
When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it. — Mike Tyson
That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick. — George Foreman
Football helmets were first designed to protect against skull fractures, but users get more than skull fractures. We need to take a look at this… — G. K. Butterfield
Temperament is fixed, set. The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body. Follow your temperament. It is not a philosophy,… — J M Coetzee
"Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret… — Janet Morris
The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. — Herman Melville

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