Bones Quotes - Page 2

• The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Cutting, Thinking, Important

  Stephen Jay Gould (1996). “Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin”, Vintage

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• Can I help you with something?" Clary turned instant traitor against her gender. "Those girls on the other side of the car are staring at you." Jace assumed an air of mellow gratification. "Of course they are," he said, "I am stunningly attractive.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Air, Car

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• He made a sound like a choked laughed before he reached out and pulled her into her arms. She was aware of Luke watching them from the window, but she shut her eyes resolutely and buried her face against Jace's shoulder. He smelled of salt and blood, and only when his mouth came close to her ear did she understand what he was saying, and it was the simplest litany of all: her name, just her name.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Blood, Names

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• Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Hope, Giving Up

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.152, University of Georgia Press

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• Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

  Robert Southey

  Peace, Order, Cities

  "The Doctor, Etc".

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• Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

  Antonin Artaud

  Needs, Culture, Tire

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• The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.

  Georges Cuvier

  Land, Dry, Body

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• My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.

  Georges Cuvier

  Animal, Land, Connections

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• You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

  Pat Benatar

  Love You, Flesh, Pay

  Song: Hell is for Children, Album: Best Shots

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• I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

  Ben Nicholson

  Book, Body, Shelter

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• The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that.

  Jolene Blalock

  Girl, Loyalty, Powerful

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• There's more to life than cheek bones.

  Kate Winslet

  More To Life, Cheeks

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• Folk is bare bones music.

  Ben Harper

  Folks

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• Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

  Robin Williams

  Mean Girls, Dead Poets Society, Choke

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Ocean, Men, Dead Man

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• In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it

  Camryn Manheim

  Grandmother, Reality, Play

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• I have no history but the length of my bones.

  Robin Skelton

  History, Length

  Robin Skelton (1971). “The hunting dark”, McClelland and Stewart

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• My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.

  Peter Krause

  Tired, Tragedy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment.

  Richard Leakey

  Water, Needs, Layers

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• My arm bones looked like chicken bones.

  Tammy Duckworth

  Hands, Arms, Chickens

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• These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.

  Alice Sebold

  Lovely, Events, Connections

  The Lovely Bones ch. 23 (2002)

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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

  Randall Munroe

  Math, Thinking, May

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• My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out.

  Don Baylor

  Sports, Exercise, Doctors

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• Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.

  Lisa Leslie

  Sports, Average, Weight

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• Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand.

  Chevy Chase

  Hands, People, Lasts

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