Skulls Quotes - Page 3

• 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 their skulls and feeling depressed, then being consoled by some little thing like watching the patterns the light makes through the leaves of trees, casting shadows on the sidewalks. I remember the line from that poem now. Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

  Kim Addonizio

  Beautiful, Baby, Falling In Love

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• That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

  George Foreman

  Boxing, Brain, Gals

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• Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Book, Dust, Empty

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.70, University of Georgia Press

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• No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.

  Mark Twain

  Flying, Retail, Thrones

  Mark Twain (2014). “The American Claimant”, p.58, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I took back a barrel of bones to New York. They were my symbols of the desert, but nothing more. I haven't seen enough to think of any other symbolism. The skulls were there and I could say something with them.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  New York, Thinking, Symbolism

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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 a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.

  Chuck Thompson

  Vocabulary, Keys, Games

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• We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

  Glenn Danzig

  Snakes, Circles, Skins

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• When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

  Charles Lyell

  Apes, Return, England

  Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.61, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Skins, Saws

  "Whispers of Immortality" l. 1 (1919)

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• Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.

  Donald Johanson

  Hands, Teeth, Body

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Prejudice, Want

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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 art and have a big portrait of Bjork.

  Ellie Goulding

  Art, Home, Crow

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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 empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Thinking, Talking, Literature

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• I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it is pretty thick, or it would have been cracked many years ago, for I have been struck some terrible blows on my head with iron dray-pins, pokers, clubs, stone-coal, and bowlders, which would have split any man's skull wide open unless it was pretty thick. Doctors have often told me that my skull was nearly an inch in thickness over my forehead.

  George Devol

  Men, Blow, Iron

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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 a stray meteorite falling through the roof to crush my skull.

  Ilona Andrews

  Crush, Fall, Dying

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• With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.

  Charles Churchill

  Stupid, Reading, People

  Charles Churchill, George Gilfillan (1855). “The poetical works of Charles Churchill: with memoir, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes / by the Rev. George Gilfillan”, p.20

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• Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Bird, Swim, Paper

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.47, Faber & Faber

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• Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.

  William Benton Clulow

  Book, Brain, Great Book

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.89

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• Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Judging, Neanderthals

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• My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.

  Yann Martel

  Art, Ambition, Life Is Like

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 skull-shaped helmet, he smiled. "Got your message. Is it too late to join the party?" "Son of Hades." Kronos spit on the ground. "Do you love death so much you wish to experience it?" "Your death," Nico said, "would be great for me." "I'm immortal, you fool! I have escaped Tartarus. You have no business here, and no chance to live." Nico drew his sword-three feet of wicked sharp Stygian iron, black as a nightmare. "I don't agree.

  Rick Riordan

  Party, Son, Army

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• Pompeii has nothing to teach us,
  we know crack of volcanic fissure,
  slow flow of terrible lava,
  pressure on heart, lungs, the brain
  about to burst its brittle case
  (what the skull can endure!)

  Hilda Doolittle

  Heart, Brain, Cracks

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.510, New Directions Publishing

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• A theoretical physicist can spend his entire lifetime missing the intellectual challenge of experimental work, experiencing none of the thrills and dangers - the overhead crane with its ten-ton load, the flashing skull and crossbones and danger, radioactivity signs. A theorist's only real hazard is stabbing himself with a pencil while attacking a bug that crawls out of his calculations.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Real, Science, Missing

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently but a minor part of the principal object.

  Franz Joseph Gall

  Anatomy And Physiology, Faithful, Brain

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• If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?

  Franz Kafka

  Book, Reading, Doe

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