Skulls Quotes
251 Skulls quotes by 202 unique authors
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I used to have a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the…
— Annie Dillard
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Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn…
— Jim Butcher
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Besides my professional goals, I have a couple of private ones, my man. One of those is to pet a kangaroo before I leave Australia.…
— Jennifer Rardin
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In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man
— Mark Twain
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Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms. It…
— Pat Barker
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The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.
— Aleister Crowley
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Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space…
— Hilary Mantel
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Nico strode forward. The enemy army fell back before him like he radiated death, which of course he did. Through the face guard of his…
— Rick Riordan
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Anyway, the fascinating thing was that I read in National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Already all confusion. Things and imaginings. As of always. Confusion amounting to nothing. Despite precautions. If only she could be pure figment. Unalloyed. This old…
— Samuel Beckett
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I wish he hadn't gone and cut his hair. He looks about eight years old. His ears have tripled in size. Everyone's started calling him…
— Sonya Sones
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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
— Salman Rushdie
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I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull:…
— Jim Butcher
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All right. Tell me what I'm looking at." From the improvised Rolling Stones T-shirt bag tied to my sash, Bob the Skull said, in his…
— Jim Butcher
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The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the…
— Suzanne Collins
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Technical advisor. Since you know our enemies so well, we’re going to pick your brain. (Jericho) I’ll tell you what you want to know. There's…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers but won't tell.
— William Golding
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I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter!
— Loretta Chase
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We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death; our experience of…
— Kim Stanley Robinson
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The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.
— Eric Berne
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There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The moon had risen behind him, the color of a shark's underbelly. It lit the ruined walls, and the skin of his arms and hands,…
— Clive Barker
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Internal mental experience is not the product of a photographic process. Internal reality is in fact constructed by the brain as it interacts with the…
— Daniel J. Siegel
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There was a sound like a human yawn, and then the skull turned slightly toward me and asked, "What's up, boss?" "Evil's afoot." "Well, sure,"…
— Jim Butcher
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No one knew about the squirrel’s skull beneath her bed, but no one wanted to know.
— Ian Mcewan
Who Wrote These Skulls Quotes
202 authors contributed a total of 251 Skulls Quotes, led by these top contributors: