Skulls Quotes
251 Skulls quotes by 202 unique authors
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As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we…
— Steven Pressfield
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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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Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.
— Catharine Arnold
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England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the…
— Karl Marx
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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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I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like…
— Ellie Goulding
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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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For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have…
— Anthony Hopkins
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Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
— Robert E. Howard
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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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what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination
— Allen Ginsberg
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Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own…
— Hakim Bey
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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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