Best Skull Quotations
219 Skull quotes by 179 unique authors
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There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid…
— Danny DeVito
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My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head…
— Jackie Chan
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I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.
— Robert T. Bakker
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The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of…
— David Eagleman
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Hold your head up to the gun of a million cathode ray tubes aired at your tiny skull.
— Jethro Tull
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In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping…
— Annie Besant
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Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees…
— Kazimir Malevich
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Getting punched in the face with a padded glove doesn't really hurt your face. It doesn't hurt your skull. The only thing it hurts is…
— Jonathan Gottschall
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Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in…
— Chuck Thompson
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A fully open mind could shatter the skull in both directions.
— Henry Flynt
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I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an…
— Allen Ginsberg
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When I got heartbroken at 20, it just felt like someone had spiraled a football right into my skull. At 40, it feels like someone…
— Junot Diaz
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand…
— Mary Baker Eddy
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I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.
— Neil Patrick Harris
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I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
— Debbie Harry
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Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
— Rod Serling
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I…
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but…
— Mark Twain
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I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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The blackness he woke to on those nights was sightless and impenetrable. A blackness to hurt your ears with listening. Often he had to get…
— Cormac McCarthy
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It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our…
— Brian Aldiss
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They lay listening. Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse…
— Cormac McCarthy
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