Skulls Quotes - Page 6

• I got to actually tattoo one of the members of The Misfits. The very first tattoo I ever did was this Misfits skull.

  Kat Von D

  Tattoo, Firsts, Misfits

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• ..when the first rubber ball smacked her in the head and made her brains rattle in her skull, she knew that something about this dodgeball game was different

  Michael Buckley

  Games, Brain, Different

  Michael Buckley (2007). “The Sisters Grimm: The unusual suspects”

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• The Maze is a painting of the inside of my skull, which I painted when I was in England as a patient in Maudsley and Netherne psychiatric hospitals. It is a story of my life, well in the sense that people tell stories by the fireplace to entertain their guests, trying to make them accept you. In this case I wanted to be accepted, as an interesting specimen.

  William Kurelek

  People, Interesting, Trying

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• Memory is all we are. Moments and feelings, captured in amber, strung on filaments of reason. Take a man’s memories and you take all of him. Chip away a memory at a time and you destroy him as surely as if you hammered nail after nail through his skull.

  Mark Lawrence

  Memories, Men, Feelings

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.67, Penguin

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• "Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret police would ambush you, violate you, skin you alive and use your skull for a drinking cup."

  Janet Morris

  God, Drinking, Blue

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• My laboratory,' I said, experimentally, drawing out each syllable. 'Why is it that saying it like that always makes me want to follow it with 'mwoo-hah-hah-hahhhhh'? ' 'You were overexposed to Hammer Films as a child?' - Harry Dresden & Bob the Skull, Changes, Jim Butcher

  Jim Butcher

  Children, Drawing, Hammers

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• They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Pain, Heart, Discovery

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• I see ... a pile of skulls and bones. For the first time since my arrival, what I see before me is too painful, and I break down completely. These are my relatives, friends and neighbors, I keep thinking ... It is a long time before I am calm again. And then I am able, with my bare hands, to rearrange the skulls and bones so that they are not scattered about.

  Dith Pran

  Thinking, Hands, Long

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• I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.

  Wally Lamb

  Moon, Snakes, Mind

  Wally Lamb (1998). “I Know This Much Is True”, p.226, Cambridge University Press

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• Hoping to fashion a mirror, the lover doth polish the face of his beloved until he produces a skull.

  John Updike

  Love, Fashion, Mirrors

  John Updike (2012). “Collected Poems, 1953-1993”, p.85, Knopf

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• A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I remembered everything.I remembered the cadavers and Doreen and the story of the fig-tree and Marco's diamond and the sailor on the Common and Doctor Gordon's wall-eyed nurse and the broken thermometers and the negro with his two kinds of beans and the twenty pounds I gained on insulin and the rock that bulged between sky and sea like a grey skull.Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them.But they were part of me. They were my landscape

  Sylvia Plath

  Dream, Baby, Wall

  The Bell Jar ch. 20 (1963)

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• A proper saute pan should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone else's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent, the victim's head or your pan, then throw that pan right in the trash.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Doubt, Causes, Serious

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• I try to neutralize my figures; I want them to be mythic and timeless. I want them to exist beyond time. I've used the skull caps or cowls to banish hair, which is distracting. I want to isolate the face and concentrate on what is really going on deep within my subjects.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Hair, Trying

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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 Dumbo. Which wouldn't be so bad, except they've started calling me Mrs. Dumbo. You can't even tell he's got curly hair anymore. There's nothing left to run my fingers through. Just this weird blond AstroTurf sprouting out of his skull.

  Sonya Sones

  Running, Cutting, Curly Hair

  Sonya Sones (2013). “What My Mother Doesn't Know”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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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 history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Play, People, Alive

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. Listing what body parts he has broken

  Jackie Chan

  Eye, Two, Feet

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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 was actually easier to believe they were men from Marlborough's army, than to think they'd been alive a year ago. It was as if all the other wars had distilled themselves into this war, and that made it something you almost can't challenge. It's like a very deep voice, saying; 'Run along, little man, be glad you've survived

  Pat Barker

  Running, War, Believe

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• The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

  David Eagleman

  Self, Consistency, Three

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.6, Canongate Books

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• Hold your head up to the gun of a million cathode ray tubes aired at your tiny skull.

  Jethro Tull

  Art, Gun, Media

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• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  Randall Munroe

  Fall, Practice, People

  "xkcd's Randall Munroe Defeats The Robot Apocalypse" by Alex Knapp, www.forbes.com. August 2, 2012.

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• Most of those old settlers told it like it was, rough and rocky. They named their towns Rimrock, Rough Rock, Round Rock, and Wide Ruins, Skull Valley, Bitter Springs, Wolf Hole, Tombstone. It's a tough country. The names of Arizona towns tell you all you need to know.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Spring, Tombstone

  Charles Kuralt (1979). “Dateline America”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain; - These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain. Perhaps with ancient heathen shapes, Old faded gods, this brain is full; Who, for their most unholy rites, Have chosen a dead poet's skull.

  Heinrich Heine

  Night, Brain, Mind

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “Pictures of travel”, p.173

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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 most caustic voice, "A giant pair of cartoon lips." I muttered a curse and fumbled with the shirt until one of the skull's glowing orange eye sockets was visible. A big goofy magic nerd!" Bob said.

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Glowing, Voice

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• I was six years old when my parents told me that there was a small, dark jewel inside my skull, learning to be me.

  Greg Egan

  Dark, Jewels, Years

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• The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Regret, Coffee, Keith

  Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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