Skulls Quotes

251 quotes by 202 authors

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… — Unknown Author
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
They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood… — Poppy Z. Brite
Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and… — Maurice Sendak
I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull. — Jonathan Lethem
We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the… — David Brooks
That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone,… — William Shakespeare
Superhero science has taught me this: Entire universes fit comfortably inside our skulls. Not just one or two but endless universes can be packed into… — Grant Morrison
No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes… — Anne Michaels
Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and strong,… — Guy Murchie
Can you imagine a guy breaking into your car, and he steals your guitar case 'cause he thinks it's a guitar, and he gets it… — Eugene Chadbourne
Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews. — Unknown Author
Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make… — Jack Handey
I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it… — Unknown Author
When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most… — Charles Lyell
And if there was no Fall, what then of the need for Redemption? What god was offended and by whom? Some especially touchy cave bear… — Joseph Campbell
I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a… — Wally Lamb
I see ... a pile of skulls and bones. For the first time since my arrival, what I see before me is too painful, and… — Dith Pran

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