Bones Quotes - Page 39

• REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wisdom, Truth, Book

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.200, University of Georgia Press

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• We may be able to tell how many stars are in the Milky Way; we may be able to count the petals of every flower, and number the bones of every bird; but unless faith leads us to a deeper understanding, a more reverent comprehension of the significance of the universe, God can be no more pleased with our knowledge than the painter is pleased with the fly which touches his picture with its feelers, and sips the varnish from the surface, and dies without dreaming of the meaning, thought, feeling, embodied in the colors.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Faith, Dream, Stars

  Henry Van Dyke (2000). “The Upward Path: Daily Inspirations from the Works of Henry Van Dyke”, Harold Shaw Pub

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• At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Morning, Water, Cooking

  Pearl S. Buck (2004). “The Good Earth”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.  What you emerged with what you are is an ocean of bliss.  Your cells and atoms and brain and bones and blood stream all of it is bliss.

  Robert Thurman

  Letting Go, Ocean, Cells

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• I give in to nothing or nobody. Cut me, break my bones, it was all the same.

  Rocky Graziano

  Cutting, Giving, Break

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• What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something of significance.

  Kenneth Turan

  Thinking, Realization, Violence

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• Humans have externalized their wisdom-stored it in museums, libraries, the expertise of the learned. Dog wisdom is inside the blood and bones.

  Donald McCaig

  Dog, Museums, Blood

  Donald McCaig (2014). “Nop's Trials: A Novel”, p.136, Open Road Media

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• Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.

  James Salter

  Waiting, Break

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• As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.

  Jim Al-Khalili

  Christian, Mother, Religious

  "It's time to herald the Arabic science that prefigured Darwin and Newton" by Jim Al-Khalili, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2008.

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• America is rising with a giant's strength. Its bones are yet but cartilages.

  Fisher Ames

  America, Giants, Rising

  Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames”, p.57

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• I'm not the only kid who grew up this way, surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones, as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called, and we got called them all. So we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us, that we'd be lonely forever, that we'd never meet someone to make us feel like the sun was something they built for us in their toolshed. So broken heartstrings bled the blues, and we tried to empty ourselves so we'd feel nothing. Don't tell me that hurts less than a broken bone...

  Shane Koyczan

  Lonely, Hurt, Falling In Love

  "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• To me, the glass is half-empty some days and half-full on others. Sometimes it's bone-dry. Or overflowing.

  Mary Alice Monroe

  Glasses, Half, Dry

  Mary Alice Monroe (2017). “Girl in the Mirror”, p.135, MIRA

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• I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.

  Liam O'Flaherty

  Hate, Men, Rocks

  Liam O'Flaherty (1980). “The Wave: And Other Stories”

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• Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely no, I make no bones about the fact that I steal from here and I take from there, and we all do it, that's perfectly all right, that's the nothing, there's nothing new in the world, there's nothing actually new in the way that you do something, but the point is is how do you take something and use it to articulate what is essentially a core of any given theatrical production.

  Simon McBurney

  Mean, Artist, Theatre

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• There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Stress, Exercise, Growth

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• We live in a kind of dark age, craftily lit with synthetic light, so that no one can tell how dark it has really gotten. But our exiled spirits can tell. Deep in our bones resides an ancient singing couple who just won't give up making their beautiful, wild noise. The world won't end if we can find them.

  Martin Prechtel

  Beautiful, Giving Up, Couple

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• That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones.

  Jennifer Lee Carrell

  Lying, Evil, Might

  Jennifer Lee Carrell (2007). “Interred with Their Bones”, p.361, Penguin

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• And a lot of the technique and the little T-Bone phrases that define his style, Chuck Berry, when he rearranged the beat, they became rock 'n roll guitar licks. So in essence, T-Bone was not only the first electric blues guitar player, but he was the first electric rock 'n roll guitar player, really.

  Duke Robillard

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

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• The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

  Andy Behrman

  Broken, Guilt, Six

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• The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written in Malayalam and finely translated into English by the author -- the timidity of our own English talent for political satire is embarrassingly laid bare. For this is dangerous stuff, and cut close to the bone. (...) Fiercest of all is Vijayan's Voltairean recoil from Indian cringing to power.

  David Selbourne

  Cutting, Political, Literature

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• The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart.

  Ed Sheeran

  Heart, Tongue, Break

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• May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.

  Sappho

  Writing, Stronger, Naked

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• In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Skins, Skin And Bones, Stories

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• We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.

  Martin Luther

  Grace, Weary

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.8, Lulu.com

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• These dog bones are just making art the way art should be made, without any overarching reference. Just for fun, if you can imagine that-art for fun.

  Sally Mann

  Dog, Art, Fun

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