Skeletons Quotes - Page 7

• No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Eye, Naked, Village

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.122, A&C Black

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• Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blood, Skins, Naked

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.231, Tara Publishing

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• Pop culture is more and more about skulls and skeletons and zombies and vampires, and that's not just on Halloween.

  Michael Almereyda

  Halloween, Skulls, Zombie

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• They take the greats from the past and compare us. I wonder if they'd ever survive in this era. In a time where it's recreation, to pull all your skeletons out the closet like Halloween decorations.

  Drake

  Halloween, Past, Eras

  Song: Lord Knows, Album: Take Care, 2011

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• It's three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of them are necessarily good ideas. Tons of artists have made whole careers out of those three ideas.

  Josh Smith

  Artist, Ideas, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

  Billy Corgan

  Thinking, Opening Up, Knowing

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• Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

  Jane Goodall

  Unique, Years, Brain

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• Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet. I compare it to having a good bone structure. Make-up will make you look good, but it helps if you have a good skeleton to begin with.

  Christian Louboutin

  Feet, Style, Needs

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• I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

  Donny Osmond

  Drinking, Grateful, Smoking

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• He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house....he feels he is riding a floating skeleton...Some birds in the almost-dark are flying as close to their reflections as possible.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Dark, Reflection, House

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• The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us.

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Army, Views

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• There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.

  Charles Dickens

  Gay, Expectations, Fiction

  Charles Dickens (1983). “Great Expectations”

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• I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.

  Mary Doria Russell

  Song, Regret, Past

  "The Sparrow". Book by Mary Doria Russell, 1996.

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• We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Anorexia, Eating Disorder, Might

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• It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

  Alan Moore

  Jumping, Closets, Bounds

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• Moist was sure doctors keep skeletons around to cow patients. Nyer, nyer, we know what you look underneath.

  Terry Pratchett

  Doctors, Looks, Cows

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• If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.

  Rita Dove

  Essence, World, Language

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• But who are you?" Percy—" I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. "Gotta go!" What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?

  Rick Riordan

  Names, Kind, Rachel Elizabeth Dare

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.

  Willa Cather

  Thinking, Blood, Waiting

  Willa Cather (1938). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• ...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I hear it: I make a stroke with the bow: the symphony begins in the depths, or springs with a bound onto the stage. If the old imbeciles hadn’t discovered only the false significance of Self, we wouldn’t have to now sweep away those millions of skeletons which have been piling up the products of their one-eyed intellect since time immemorial, and claiming themselves to be their authors!

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Spring, Self, Symphony

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• There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been.

  Juliet Marillier

  Track, Remembrance, Tree

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “The Dark Mirror”, p.265, Pan Macmillan

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• Valkyrie, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your friend is most likely dead.” “Of course he’s dead. He’s a skeleton.

  Derek Landy

  Hate, Courses, Valkyrie Cain

  Derek Landy (2013). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.46, HarperCollins UK

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• Six hundred years is an awfully long time, Ever. So long it's impossible for either of us to imagine. Though it is more than enough time to rack up a few dirty skeletons for the old metaphorical closet, right?

  Alyson Noel

  Dirty, Years, Long

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• No. . .I mean, I'm sorry he. . .You know, said those things to you." "It's part of being a 'good' family. Everyone's got skeletons in their closet.

  Richelle Mead

  Sorry, Mean, Good Family

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• Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some new skeleton -- was emerging from beneath the softness of her accustomed self. With a deep, visceral ache, she wished her true form might prove to be a sleek and shining one, like a stiletto blade slicing free of an ungainly sheath. Like a bird of prey losing its hatchling fluff to hunt in cold, magnificent skies. That she might become something glittering, something startling, something dangerous.

  Laini Taylor

  Self, Sky, Bird

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.40, Scholastic Inc.

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