Skulls Quotes - Page 5

• The Elephant Man claimed his head was big because, it's so full of dreams. Actually, it's because his skull was shaped like a turkey.

  Dana Gould

  Dream, Men, Turkeys

  FaceBook post by Dana Gould from Oct 09, 2012

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• All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.

  T. H. White

  Form, Collectivism, Mistaken

  T.H. White (1988). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.124, University of Texas Press

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• In glades they meet skull after skull
  Where pine cones lay-the rusted gun,
  Green shoes full of bones,
  the mouldering coat And cuddled up skeleton;
  And scores of such.
  Some start as in dreams,
  And comrades lost bemoan;
  By the edge of those wilds Stonewall had charged-
  But the year and the Man were gone.

  Herman Melville

  Dream, War, Gun

  Herman Melville, Douglas Robillard (2000). “The Poems of Herman Melville”, p.102, Kent State University Press

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• Forgive me, O Heavenly Father, according to the multitude of Thy mercies. I have lusted in my heart to break a man's skull and scatter the stench of his brains across several people's back yards.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Father, Heart, Men

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.352, Faber & Faber

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• Don't think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee. Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.... Think if Tiffany's made a mosquito, how wonderful we would think it was!

  Brenda Ueland

  Coffee, Thinking, Forever

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• Hail, high Excess especially in wine,
  To thee in worship do I bend the knee
  Who preach abstemiousness unto me
  My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine.
  Precept on precept, aye, and line on line,
  Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree
  With reason as thy touch, exact and free,
  Upon my forehead and along my spine.
  At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup,
  With the hot grape I warm no more my wit;
  When on thy stool of penitence I sit
  I'm quite converted, for I can't get up.
  Ungrateful he who afterward would falter
  To make new sacrifices at thine altar!

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wine, Sacrifice, Ungrateful

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2393, Delphi Classics

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• Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Life Changing, Book, Heart

  Siri Hustvedt (2012). “Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays”, p.63, Macmillan

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• As for the primitive, I hark back to it because we are still very primitive. How many thousands of years of culture, think you, have rubbed and polished at our raw edges? One probably; at the best, no more than two. And that takes us back to screaming savagery, when, gross of body and deed, we drank blood from the skulls of our enemies, and hailed as highest paradise the orgies and carnage of Valhalla.

  Jack London

  Tattoo, Thinking, Blood

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• The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.

  William Golding

  Answers, Knows

  "Lord of the Flies".

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• Generally speaking, I'm much more in favour of penises entering vaginas than axes entering skulls. But the world seems to accept the violence a lot easier than the sex.

  George R. R. Martin

  Sex, Axes, Violence

  "EIBF 2014: George R.R. Martin on Game Of Thrones, writing". www.denofgeek.com. August 15, 2014.

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• Operating superficially, the mind is random in its activity and stale in its insights and images. However, with practice and experience the mind is freed from the skull, and the fresh and new can appear as though for the first time. It

  Matsuo Basho

  Time, Practice, Mind

  Matsuo Basho (2003). “A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen”, p.18, Counterpoint Press

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• Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?

  Robert Breault

  Mind, Wonder, Crime

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• An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.

  Christopher Moore

  Cracks, Original Thought, Thunderbolts

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• Getting punched in the face with a padded glove doesn't really hurt your face. It doesn't hurt your skull. The only thing it hurts is your brain. You can feel the brain injury happening. It's an instant headache.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Hurt, Brain, Gloves

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.

  Michael Koryta

  Elephants, Musical, Joining

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• When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.

  Roberto Bolano

  Grief, Broken, Sorrow

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• Haven's warm, clammy palms press hard against my cheeks as the tarnished edge of her silver skull ring leaves a smudge on my skin.

  Alyson Noel

  Skins, Silver, Palms

  Alyson Noel (2013). “The Immortals Bundle 1-3: The Immortals: Evermore, The Immortals: Blue Moon and The Immortals: Shadowland”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

  Fletcher Knebel

  Life, Dresses, Rehearsal

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• We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, matter, and linear causality.

  Stanislav Grof

  Animal, Space, Causality

  Stanislav Grof, Hal Zina Bennett (2009). “The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• All right. Tell me what I'm looking at." From the improvised Rolling Stones T-shirt bag tied to my sash, Bob the Skull said, in his most caustic voice, "A giant pair of cartoon lips." I muttered a curse and fumbled with the shirt until one of the skull's glowing orange eye sockets was visible. A big goofy magic nerd!" Bob said.

  Jim Butcher

  Eye, Glowing, Voice

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• The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is 'please'. Pity, not vengeance sends my arrow flying into his skull.

  Suzanne Collins

  Thinking, Arrows, Flying

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.443, Scholastic Inc.

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• Technical advisor. Since you know our enemies so well, we’re going to pick your brain. (Jericho) I’ll tell you what you want to know. There's no need to torture me for it. (Asmodeus) Pick your brain is an idiomatic expression, Asmodeus. It means we’ll have you tell us things. We’re not actually going in there to mess with your head. (Delphine) Oh, thank the Source. I can’t stand it when someone opens my skull. It really hurts. (Asmodeus)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Mean, Expression

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• Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.

  J. G. Ballard

  Fashion, Heaven, Grace

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• Football helmets were first designed to protect against skull fractures, but users get more than skull fractures. We need to take a look at this to see if there is any way to improve safety. We need to set some standards, because the ones now are not protecting players to the highest level.

  G. K. Butterfield

  Football, Player, Safety

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• "Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret police would ambush you, violate you, skin you alive and use your skull for a drinking cup."

  Janet Morris

  God, Drinking, Blue

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