Skeletons Quotes - Page 6

• 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 a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hourglass - all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.

  Annie Besant

  Fashion, Art, Kings

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.332, Jazzybee Verlag

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• No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the key of caution inside, on the other side of the keyhole.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Keys, Leaving, Mind

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• Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Heart, Dark, Men

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• I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.

  Charles Barkley

  Closets, Cemetery, Whole

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• Now people don't know what it was in the Paris version, they put the skeleton at the end, not at the beginning. At least they've learn something!

  John Hench

  Paris, People, Ends

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• Two U.S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests. "You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet Hades doesn't have trouble with door-to-door salesman.

  Rick Riordan

  Marine, Doors, Two

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• Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons.

  Mike Mignola

  Drinking, Don't Mess With Me, Mess With Me

  John Arcudi, Mike Mignola (2011). “B.P.R.D.: The Black Flame #2”, p.1, Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)

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• Do yourself a favor,' I said. "Forget it. Forget you ever saw me." "Forget that you tried to kill me too?" "Yeah. That, too." "But who are you?" "Percy-" I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. "Gotta go!" "What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?" I bolted for the exit.

  Rick Riordan

  Names, Favors, Saws

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• Once again the absurdity of my inner thoughts overwhelms me, and I want to crawl out of my skin, escape my ugly, awkward flesh and be a skeleton, naked and anonymous.

  Isaac Marion

  Awkward, Skins, Naked

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• I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough for me to hear over the din, 'Last time, I imagined myself as the kid. This time, the skeleton.

  John Green

  Kids, Ribs, Gus

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.233, Penguin

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• Skeletons of mice are often to be found in coconuts, for it is easier to get in, slim and greedy, than to get out, appeased but fat.

  Viktor Korchnoi

  Coconuts, Chess, Slim

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• Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, World, Cows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.123, Orient Paperbacks

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• I came from a very strict background. [So if you want to make a scary movie] if you were raised as a fundamentalist, just pull all the skeletons out of your closet.

  Wes Craven

  Scary, Want, Closets

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Christians, of all people, should not be destroyers. We should treat nature with an overwhelming respect. We may cut down a tree to build a house, or to make a fire to keep the family warm. But we should not cut down the tree just to cut down the tree. We may, if necessary, bark the cork tree in order to have the use of the bark. But what we should not do is to bark the tree simply for the sake of doing so, and let it dry and stand there a dead skeleton in the wind. To do so is not to treat the tree with integrity.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Christian, Integrity, Cutting

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• I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them,
  And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them;
  I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war;
  But I saw they were not as was thought;
  They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not;
  The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd,
  And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd,
  And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.

  Walt Whitman

  Mother, Veterans Day, Children

  Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.39, Haskell House Pub Limited

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• No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Eye, Naked, Village

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.122, A&C Black

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• It's three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of them are necessarily good ideas. Tons of artists have made whole careers out of those three ideas.

  Josh Smith

  Artist, Ideas, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everybody knows pretty much everything about me. I emptied all the skeletons out of my closet a long time ago.

  David Feherty

  Long, Closets, Knows

  Source: gearpatrol.com

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• Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blood, Skins, Naked

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.231, Tara Publishing

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• I've always liked monster movies and I've always been fascinated by - again, growing up in a culture where death was looked upon as a dark subject and living so close to Mexico where you see the Day of the Dead with the skeletons and it's all humor and music and dancing and a celebration of life in a way. That always felt more of a positive approach to things. I think I always responded to that more than this dark, unspoken cloud in the environment I grew up in.

  Tim Burton

  Growing Up, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.chud.com

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• It was a total and absolute surprise to find out that what was inside the concentration camps was a sea of skeletons. What is clear to me, therefore, is that while the tragedy of war grinds on, the contemporary aesthetics of the tragedy seem not only confused but, in some way, suspicious.

  Paul Virilio

  Confused, War, Sea

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Suppose that insect wings developed primarily as thermoregulators and then were used for skimming and finally flying, evolving along the way. What would they be "for"? Or what is the skeleton "for"? For keeping one upright, protecting organs, storing calcium, making blood cells...?

  Noam Chomsky

  Cells, Blood, Wings

  Source: libcom.org

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• Sometimes I'll have a scene that strikes me, I just feel like writing a scene, a mini-story that seems like it might lead somewhere. But that is such a tentative, fishing-hook way to go about it that these days I've found it's easier to kind of at least have your concept and start attaching things to a skeleton. So I try to find the armature, the kind of backbone of it first that you can start to hang those scenes on.

  Shane Black

  Writing, Fishing, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I suggest in my own discussion of this episode, Mann invites us to set the attempt to philosophize about his predicament in the context of Aschenbach's life. The literary presentation thus adds to the naked philosophical skeleton.

  Philip Kitcher

  Philosophical, Naked, Add

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I didn't believe in Bigfoot.I just thought, "No, that would be impossible. You know, we would have found Bigfoot by now. We would've found some skeletons, we would've found some sort of proof of Bigfoot." So, I didn't believe for a long time, but obviously this is the year we find Bigfoot. And obviously all scientists agree that there's definitely Bigfoot.There's no reason to debate it. It's like debating climate change. There's no reason to debate climate change anymore. There's no reason to debate whether there's Bigfoot. Clearly, the yeti exists.

  Rob Huebel

  Believe, Years, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

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