Bones Quotes - Page 40

• There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Writing, Lazy, Idlers

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• None of the three great apes is considered ancestral to modern man, Homo sapiens, but they remain the only other type of extant primate with which human beings share such close physical characteristics. From them we may learn much concerning the behavior of our earliest primate prototypes, because behavior, unlike bones, teeth, or tools, does not fossilize.

  Dian Fossey

  Men, Apes, Wildlife

  Dian Fossey (2000). “Gorillas in the Mist”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding

  E. M. Forster

  Knowledge, Science, Long

  E.M. Forster (2015). “Howard's End”, p.299, Xist Publishing

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• You can't just say there is a God because well, the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children. You have to account for the fact that almost all animals in the wild live under stress with not enough to eat and will die violent and bloody deaths. There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.

  Stephen Fry

  Beautiful, Children, Nice

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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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• 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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• If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in your bones than in your head; and if you haven’t, no description of the experience will ever be satisfactory.

  Daniel Taylor

  Sacred, Holy, Description

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• Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open, you smell a hundred years' worth of light. Ancient starlight that took millions of years to reach earth. That's why trees smell so beautiful and old.

  Frances O'Roark Dowell

  Beautiful, Stars, Cutting

  Frances O'Roark Dowell (2013). “Where I'd Like To Be”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Smart, People, Interesting

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• What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or confound our common sense. A century ago no one foresaw the existence of black holes, an expanding universe, oceans on Jupiter's moons, or DNA. What could be more enriching than to know that we share a common origin with all living things, that we are kin to chimpanzees, redwoods and mollusks? And isn't it a source of wonder to realize that the iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones were created in the bellies of supernovas?

  Steven Pinker

  Ocean, Moon, Dna

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• Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own.

  Leonard Cohen

  Broken Heart, Baby, Passion

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs”, p.170, Random House

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• Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

  Yoko Ono

  Broken Heart, Flower, Men

  Yoko Ono (1970). “Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.

  Erik Estrada

  Broken, Motorcycle, Ribs

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• Now I begin to be a disciple. Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Fire, Long

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• If they break your heart, break their bones

  Greyson Chance

  Heart, Break, Ifs

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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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• 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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• When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too must hurl ourselves against and through the literal and metaphorical concrete that contains and constrains us, that keeps us from talking about what is most important to us, that keeps us from living the way our bones know we can, that bars us from our home. It only takes one person to bring down a dam.

  Derrick Jensen

  Home, Talking, Important

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.75, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

  Miller Williams

  War, Spirit, Bad Manners

  Miller Williams (1997). “The Ways We Touch: Poems”, p.55, University of Illinois Press

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• I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in a rush of gold to the head, through black and cold, red and cold, brown and warm, giving water the weight and size of myself in order to imagine it, water with my bones, water with my mouth and my understanding. When my body was in some way a wave to swim in, one continuous fin from head to tail, I steered through rapids like a canoe, digging my hands in, keeping just ahead of the river.

  Alice Oswald

  Hands, Order, Rivers

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• I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine; I insist on color.

  Charles Bowden

  Believe, Flower, Wine

  "Bad Luck on an Otherwise Fine Night" by Chuck Bowden, www.esquire.com. September 5, 2014.

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