Bones Quotes - page 4

She answered by standing and kissing him first and held his cheeks and closed her eyes and felt sure as bones and deep as blood that she had found her place. (Shannon Hale)
They weren't nice words he said. He could've lived a good life and died never having made a person feel rubbed down to bones and too sad to hold together. View quote
Shannon Hale
Each morning, before Jackie started her studies, she wrote on a clean piece of paper: Tarde venientibus ossa. To the latecomers are left the bones. View quote
Junot Diaz
I close my eyes. And i scream. If my whole world is crashing down around me, then I am going to make the sound of the crashing. I want to scream until all my bones break. View quote
David Levithan
It was the hat. He looked sweet in the hat. How could a man in a fuzzy blue hat have used human bones to pave his roads? View quote
Jennifer Egan
Sun-bleached bones were most wonderful against the blue - that blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
So, probably.... when I started painting the pelvis bones I was most interested in the holes in the bones - what I saw through them - particularly the blue from holding them up in the sun against the sky as one is apt to do when one seems to have more sky than earth in one's world.... they were most beautiful against the Blue - that Blue that will always be there as it is now after all man's destruction is finished. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones. View quote
Jacques Roumain
Maybe some love was guaranteed. Maybe it fit inside you and around you like skin and bones. View quote
Alice Hoffman
If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school. View quote
Kathy Reichs
I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don't want to die. I want to eat like a normal person eats, but I need to see my bones or I will hate myself even more and I might cut my heart out or take every pill that was ever made. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
Dead girl walking” the boys say in the halls. "Tell us your secrets” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. "I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings. View quote
Evel Knievel
There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke. View quote
Evel Knievel
I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals. View quote
Evel Knievel
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. View quote
Liam O'Flaherty
Memory is a part of the present. It builds us up inside; it knits our bones to our muscles and keeps our hearts pumping. It is memory that reminds our bodies to work, and memory that reminds our spirits to work to: it keeps us who we are.~Candle. View quote
Gregory Maguire
In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their parts, bones and the shells of animals, and other bodies of this kind which are possessed of a smooth surface, these same bodies had already become hard at the time when the matter of the earth and rock containing them was still fluid. And not only did the earth and rock not produce the bodies contained in them, but they did not even exist as such when those bodies were produced in them. View quote
Nicolas Steno
The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise, to all the liberal cooks and active dog-boys in the world. View quote
Frances Power Cobbe
Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward. View quote
Wil Wheaton
McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short stories. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time... (Graham Chapman)
I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of horses, the secret to breeding great horses is the three Bs: bones, brains, and balance. If you look at art, it shares some of the same qualities. View quote
Alice Walton
In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it. View quote
Camryn Manheim
When you do a play, you do it for a couple months, and it just gets in your bones. You can learn about somebody that way. View quote
Chris Messina
My bones are as hard as a rock. Every time I have a biopsy, the doctors are doing hand exercises a week, ten days out. View quote
Don Baylor