Bones Quotes - Page 12

• I got mugged. And they got my knapsack with my comedy notebook in it. So if anybody see two cholos bombing at the Funny Bone chain, that would be them. Just give me a jingle.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Notebook, Two, Giving

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• If all the lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones were sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half.

  H. L. Mencken

  Half, Would Be, Tomorrow

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• Grief never mended no broken bones.

  Charles Dickens

  Grief, Broken, Broken Bone

  1836-7 Sketches by Boz,'Gin Shops'.

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• What does a river like the Vistula carry away with it? Everything that goes to pieces: wood, glass, pencils, pacts ... chairs, bones, and sunsets too. What had long been forgotten rose to memory, floating on its back or stomach, with the help of the Vistula.

  Gunter Grass

  Memories, Sunset, Glasses

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• All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.

  Simon Winchester

  Home, Japan, Broken

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• The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Moving, Fortune

  Leonardo Da Vinci, General Press (2016). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”, p.493, GENERAL PRESS

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• It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.

  John Heywood

  Flesh

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.369

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• A kinsman in trouble had to be saved, not blamed; anger against a brother was felt in the flesh, not in the bone.

  Chinua Achebe

  Brother, Flesh, Trouble

  Chinua Achebe (2011). “No Longer at Ease”, p.11, Anchor

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• I do my show half-hour a night four nights a week. I haven't seen my kids in 18 months, and I am losing calcium in my bones. Doctors say I should stop. I'm not going to.

  Stephen Colbert

  Kids, Night, Doctors

  "Stephen Colbert Enters the No Spin Zone". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2007.

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• Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity.

  Edith Sitwell

  Spring, Heart, Light

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Broken, Chickens

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.196

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• Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.

  Pete Seeger

  Library, Graveyard

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

  John Milton

  Sex, Essence, Enmity

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 423

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• Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject.

  Will Cuppy

  Writing, Lions, Necks

  "The Lion". "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.

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• A novel it's different. It's kind of exhilarating not to have to cut to the bone constantly. Oh, well I can go over here for a moment. I can say what I think the guy was thinking or what the day looked like or what the bird was doing. If you do that as a playwright, you're dead.

  David Mamet

  Cutting, Thinking, Guy

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• Our bodies are garbage heaps: we collect experience, and from the decomposition of the thrown-out eggshells, spinach leaves, coffee grinds, and old steak bones out of our minds come nitrogen, heat, and very fertile soil. Out of this fertile soil bloom our poems and stories. But this does not come all at once. It takes time. Continue to turn over and over the organic details of your life until some of them fall through the garbage of discursive thoughts to the solid ground of black soil.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Coffee, Fall, Black

  "Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within". Book by Natalie Goldberg, 1986.

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• Two bones fell down my chimney and into the bedroom this morning. Hysterical thing to happen to a thriller writer. Murderous ravens perhaps?

  Tobsha Learner

  Morning, Ravens, Two

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• Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Country, Blood, Land

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• like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

  Jennifer Stone

  Mother, Tissues, Scar

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• I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes.

  Jennifer Stone

  Mother, Father, Eye

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• I don't have a hateful bone in my body. I don't believe anyone should be bullied or made to feel bad about who they are.

  Tracy Morgan

  Believe, Body, Hateful

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• A lot of times I feel I probably would have ended up in a mental hospital if it weren't for the structure that 'Bones' gave me.

  Eric Millegan

  Structure, Feels, Hospitals

  "Eric Millegan on Living (and Acting) with Bipolar Disorder: Part 1" by Jamie Frevele, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• In the mouth of a bad dog fals often a good bone.

  George Herbert

  Dog, Mouths

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.369

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• Gamaun is a dainty steed,
  Strong, black, and of a noble breed,
  Full of fire, and full of bone,
  With all his line of fathers known;
  Fine his nose, his nostrils thin,
  But blown abroad by the pride within;
  His mane is like a river flowing,
  And his eyes like embers glowing
  In the darkness of the night,
  And his pace as swift as light.

  Bryan Procter

  Strong, Horse, Father

  Bryan Waller Procter, “The Blood Horse”

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• I've never broken a bone in my body, even though I've done some extreme things.

  Kellan Lutz

  Broken, Done, Body

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