Best 383 quotes in «bones quotes» category

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

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

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 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.

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

Pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

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.

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

small talk comes from small bones

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.

The fact is that some of the mice [tested on with AZT] have contracted cancer. It attacks bone marrow. It is very toxic.

The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever.

The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

The monomaniac is unlikely to succeed. Most leave only their bleached bones in the roadless desert. But the rest of us, with our multiple interests instead of a single mission, are certain to fail and have no impact at all.

The lion has to stay outside" "He won't like it" The lion shook his mane. I looked at Curran. The lion melted. Skin stretched, bones twisted, and human Curran straightened. He was completely nude. Gloriously nude. "Well," Hrefna said. "I always wondered why you went all shapeshifter. Explain things.

the mute protest in your own bones

The music business is suffering because fewer artists are being invested in. Labels are putting in less money, taking fewer risks and signing half as many artists as they did 10 years ago. Everything is risk averse right now and there are two ways to deal with a business situation like this: either reduce your risk or increase your return. They're reducing their risk to the bone and looking for ways with their 360 deals to increase their return. They're still not making money. Artists are suffering. Labels, or music investors, are suffering.

The moon has nothing to be sad about, Staring from her hood of bone. She is used to this sort of thing. Her blacks crackle and drag.

...the pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it.

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

The only decent bone in her body was mine.

There are things about Joe Torre, if I wanted to come out and say, would show how cold and calculated he really is... Joe Torre is for Joe Torre. ... The graveyard of Yankees coaches is loaded with bones of coaches Joe Torre did nothing about.

There's more to life than cheek bones.

There's a film there in competition [of Sundance Film Festival] called To The Bone. It's directed by Marti Noxon. I have a supporting role in it. It got really well received. It's a really great film.

The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.