Best 383 quotes in «bones quotes» category

My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.

My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear.

My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

My partner has to have good sized bones.

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health." - City of Bones (said by Jace Wayland)

My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.

No, I'm too tired to run, and you're too fast. You'd only catch me." "That's right, luv." Softly, but with unyielding resonance. "if you run from me, I'll chase you. And I'll find you. Bones said.

Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed. (Bone Crossed)

Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong.

Odd that I couldn’t catch any of your dream,” Bones went on. “Normally your dreams are like background music to me.

Osteoporosis is a disease that attacks the bones in your body. It happens to really almost everyone when they get really old. But for women, after menopause, they can lose up to 30 percent of their bone mass.

Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.

Scheme not to make what's Another's your own; Be not a Dog for the sake of a Bone.

Quench love, and what is left of a man's life but the folding of a few jointed bones and square inches of flesh? Who would call that life?

Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.

Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.

Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.

She was his soulmate, as much a part of him as the very flesh and bone that made him. She was with him, in him, in everything he did. She was everything he wanted from his life, the very measure of his dreams.

She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we'd had chicken tonight.

small talk comes from small bones

Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.

sometimes there are reasons for our fears that we can’t quite explain. Sometimes it’s just something we feel in our bones, something we know to be true, but would sound foolish to anyone else.

Some people think their fingers are toes or claws, but they're actually finger bones.

Stick a shovel into the ground almost anywhere and some horrible thing or other will come to light. Good for trade, we thrive on bones; without them there'd be no stories.

Sometimes you do absolutely know there's something there. You feel it in your bones. I actually literally feel it on my skin sometimes. I do get goosebumps. There are times when you go oh God, that works that moment! But you find you take it apart again.

Sticks and stones, I'll break yer bones, but names ain't worth a quarrel.

sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate

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

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?

Tell him I hate him to his guts and the marrow of his bones!

That's what vampires do, Kitten. We always come for what's ours, no matter the circumstances." Bones said.

Take that bone out of your nose and call me back (to an African American female caller).

T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.

Terrific! A successful blend of genres, complex and fascinating characters, and loads of suspense make 24 Bones a must-read.

That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain.

The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives.

The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

The collar-bone is my favourite part of the human body.

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone