Skulls Quotes
251 Skulls quotes by 202 unique authors
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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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The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.
— James Frey
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Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin' high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps "We'll meet on…
— Bob Dylan
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A pity to survive night flights over St. Georges Channel only to crack my skull falling from a ladder.
— Eoin Colfer
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You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.
— Tao Lin
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After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too,…
— David Sedaris
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I will be thin and pure like a glass cup. Empty. Pure as light. Music. I move my hands over my body - my shoulders,…
— Francesca Lia Block
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He picked up the skull and knocked an onion ring out of its eye socket. "I see Sophie has been busy again. Couldn't you have…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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What is it the I'll want from you? Not love: that would be too much to ask. Not forgiveness, which isn't yours to bestow. Only…
— Margaret Atwood
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Today I'm out wandering, turning my skull into a cup for others to drink wine from. In this town somewhere there sits a calm, intelligent…
— Unknown Author
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Then I dropped my forehead against his and sat there for a long time, as if I could telegraph a message through our two skulls,…
— John Grogan
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at last you, will say (maybe without speaking) (there are mountains inside your skull garden and chaos, ocean and hurricane; certain corners of rooms, portraits…
— Margaret Atwood
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Actors! The mechanics of cheap melodrama! That isn't death! You scream and choke and sink to your knees but it doesn't bring death home to…
— Tom Stoppard
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I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding…
— Louis L'Amour
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Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being bored out of…
— Kim Addonizio
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I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up…
— David Benioff
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
— George Orwell
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A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH I do not carry a sickle or scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it's cold. And I…
— Markus Zusak
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You're not going to die?" "Not right this minute." And of course, saying something like that usually resulted in immediate dying. I braced myself for…
— Ilona Andrews
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There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads…
— Neil Gaiman
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The world did not have me in mind; it had no mind. It was a coincidental collection of things and people, of items, an I…
— Annie Dillard
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You should have seen the look on your skull...
— Rich Burlew
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We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling…
— Ekaterina Sedia
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Taro came into the room, strands of hair flying free of the tie at the back of his skull, sweat plastering his cream-colored shirt against…
— Moira J. Moore
Who Wrote These Skulls Quotes
202 authors contributed a total of 251 Skulls Quotes, led by these top contributors: