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• Skulls are what people dont know to be good luck, they ward off bad.

  A. J. McLean

  Good Luck, People, Be Good

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• Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Sight, Empty

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• Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

  Stephen King

  Anxiety, Panic, Beats

  Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.

  Charles Kettering

  Years, Ideas, World

  "Boss Ket: A life of Charles F. Kettering". Book by Rosamond McPherson Young, p. 194, 1961.

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• Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

  Amy Lowell

  Hate, Beaks, Descending

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• There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?

  Danny DeVito

  Two, Dilemma, Humans

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• The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

  Grant Morrison

  Infinity, Portal, Interiors

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• The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Light, Bishops, Lamps

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• The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

  Philip Roth

  Work, Writing, Sisterhood

  1979 In the NewYorkTimes Book Review,15 Jul.

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• The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.

  Alberto Giacometti

  What Matters, Play, People

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• Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Frustration, Frustrated

  1957 InVogue,1Apr.

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• I collect skulls; I think that a beautiful skull is a really good gift for a guy.

  Bella Heathcote

  Beautiful, Thinking, Guy

  "Taking Five with Bella Heathcote and Phoebe Tonkin". Interview with Sal Morgan, www.vogue.com.au. November 15, 2012.

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• The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

  Stephen King

  Movie, Writing, Sisterhood

  FaceBook post by Stephen King from Feb 06, 2013

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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 would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Power, Literature, Treasure

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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 yourself and your Maker better than before.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Giving Up, Mind, Belief

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.477, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.

  Georg Trakl

  Eye, Golden, Quiet

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• How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Way, Honest

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• I'm not good looking. I'm very strange - a very bony face on an enormous skull, and I don't like to be naked because I don't like how I look naked. And - no, no. I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything. So I could have a lot more trappings of wealth if every time I had 20 extra dollars I didn't pay off more of the mortgage.

  Dan Savage

  People, House, Naked

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.

  Anne Bronte

  Real, Moving, Thinking

  Anne Bronte (2016). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)”, p.98, Diversion Books

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• He sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls.

  Stephen King

  Thrones, Made, Sat

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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 her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

  Mark Twain

  Hate, Book, Writing

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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, from my brain to his. I wanted to make him understand some things. You know all that stuff we’ve always said about you?” I whispered. “What a total pain you are? Don’t believe it. Don’t believe it for a minute, Marley.” He needed to know that, and something more, too. There was something I had never told him, that no one ever had. I wanted him to hear it before he went. Marley,” I said. “You are a great dog.

  John Grogan

  Dog, Pain, Believe

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• A horse's skull always looks scary, even if someone has put lipstick on it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Horse, Scary, Looks

  "I Shall Wear Midnight". Book by Terry Pratchett, 2010.

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• The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is composed of chemicals, enzymes, and humors which may be analyzed. Its structure is characterized by neurons, pathways, and synapses which may be examined directly when they are properly magnified.

  Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado

  Brain, Neurons, May

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• The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Clever, Humility, Size

  "The humble programmer" by Edsger Dijkstra in "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, Issue 10 (pp. 859-866), dl.acm.org. October 1972.

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