quotes about Bones
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Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
-- Alanis Morissette -
It's easy to forget people are blood and bone. They're not indestructible.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.
-- Alexei Sayle -
If you let hope inside, it takes you over. It feeds on your insides and uses your bones to climb and grow. Eventually it becomes the thing that is your bones, that holds you together. Holds you up until you don't know how to live without it anymore. To pull it out of you would kill you entirely.
-- Ally CondieSource : Ally Condie (2012). “Reached”, p.180, Penguin UK
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My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.
-- Andy Rooney -
Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
-- Antonin Artaud -
No British Government ever will and ever can risk the bones of a British grenadier.
-- Austen ChamberlainSource : On the Polish Corridor in a letter to Sir Eyre Crowe, February 16, 1925.
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We've all got stardust in our bones...
-- Ben HarperSource : Song: Get It Like You Like It, Album: Both Sides of the Gun
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We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside.
-- Blake SheltonSource : Song: Hillbilly Bone, Album: Hillbilly Bone, 2010
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Knowledge is only rumor until it lives in the bones.
-- Brené Brown -
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We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body.
-- Brent Smith -
Everyone who knows me knows that I don't have a prejudiced bone in my body.
-- Brett Ratner -
You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
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A good thing to have up your sleeve is a sanctified funny-bone.
-- Charles Studd -
I want a big fat woman with meat shaking on her bones.
-- Chick Willis -
An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb
-- Chinua Achebe -
I can get a great look at a t-bone steak by shoving my head up a bull's ***** but I'd rather take the butchers word for it.
-- Chris Farley -
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Morning breaks. So do bottles and bones.
-- Clint CatalystSource : Clint Catalyst (2000). “Cottonmouth Kisses”, Manic d Press
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The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.
-- Constance HaleSource : Constance Hale (2013). “Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wicked Good Prose”, p.11, Three Rivers Press
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If you have been in the vicinity of the sacred - ever brushed against the holy - you retain it more in your bones than in your head; and if you haven’t, no description of the experience will ever be satisfactory.
-- Daniel Taylor -
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Tell him I hate him to his guts and the marrow of his bones!
-- Diana Gabaldon -
It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.
-- Diane GlancySource : Diane Glancy (1991). “Lone Dog's Winter Count”
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Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
-- Djuna BarnesSource : Djuna Barnes (2014). “Nightwood”, p.68, Faber & Faber
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Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.
-- Dorothy WestSource : Dorothy West (2009). “The Wedding: A Novel”, p.171, Anchor
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Just as the dog loves to chew bones, the human mind loves its problems.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart.
-- Ed Sheeran -
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It's not enough for me to just hear about something or read about something, I wanna know it in my bones.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Artemis: I am not buoyed by that. Foaly: You are not supposed to be buoyed by that. You are supposed to be equalized. Mulch: I'm pretty sure that both of you just made really horrible jokes. But I'm not sure because I think you broke my funny bone.
-- Eoin Colfer -
A lot of times I feel I probably would have ended up in a mental hospital if it weren't for the structure that 'Bones' gave me.
-- Eric MilleganSource : "Eric Millegan on Living (and Acting) with Bipolar Disorder: Part 1" by Jamie Frevele, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
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Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at the same time, of its close affinity with the gibbon group of anthropoid apes.
-- Eugene Dubois -
Joy might be God- in the marrow of our bones.
-- Eugenia Price -
Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars
-- Evel Knievel -
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.
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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.
-- Evel Knievel -
I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.
-- Fannie Flagg -
The convention is the voice, the bone and the sinews of a political party-and sometimes it even nominates an Abraham Lincoln.
-- Fletcher Knebel -
When we become hollow bones there is no limit to what the Higher Powers can do in and through us in spiritual things.
-- Frank Fools Crow -
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I break bones, I break people, I break spirits!
-- Frank Shamrock -
I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones.
-- Franz Kafka -
And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.
-- Freddie Mercury -
Galen cupped her cheek with his uninjured hand, his thumb caressing the rise of satin-covered bone. She trembled, but didn’t pull away.
-- Gena Showalter -
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The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.
-- Gordon Lightfoot -
If they break your heart, break their bones
-- Greyson Chance -
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Endless days of dark indoors and hateful glances are enough to set a rime on anyone's bones.
-- Hannah KentSource : Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.32, Pan Macmillan
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We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Like many natural beauties, New York is effortlessly photogenic. It has fabulous bones and hardly any bad angles.
-- Holland Cotter -
Work your fingers to the bone and what do you get? Boney fingers.
-- Hoyt Axton -
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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.
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When the spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosova with the bones of Serbs, for we Albanians have suffered too much to forget.
-- Isa BoletiniSource : "The search for Greater Albania" by Paulin Kola, Hurst, London, (p. 1), 2003.
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Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.
-- James Salter -
Contouring makes a huge difference in your bone structure! I don't do it every day, because when I'm not working, I like to keep my skin fresh.
-- Jasmine TookesSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Such gluttony second to none Almost ended fatally When a bone choked a wolf as he gulped what he ate
-- Jean de La Fontaine -
Let's go, Kitten, before you kill someone else. -Bones
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Ask me if I sparkle and I’ll kill you where you stand.†(Bones)
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Odd that I couldn’t catch any of your dream,†Bones went on. “Normally your dreams are like background music to me.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
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This isn't going to be easy," I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. "Nothing worthwhile ever is.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Bones,†I sighed. “Know something? I’m not afraid of you, but you scare me….†His outline blurred again. “You scare me, too, Kitten,†he might have replied, but I couldn’t be sure.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Your mum pounced on her and started sucking away. Would’ve been arousing if not for all the screaming.†“Ian,†Bones drew out warningly. He grinned. “You’re right. I was aroused anyway.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
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Before we met, I'd fly for hours to clear my head," Bones said, his voice reaching me even over the rush of wind. "It was the closest I came to finding peace, but though several of my mates could fly, I always went alone. I never wanted to share this with anyone until you.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
He also deeply distrusts vampires, as you had guessed yourself,†Bones added. “Aside from that, all I heard was enough repetitions of ‘how many chucks could a woodchuck chuck’ to make me want to stake myself.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Let me introduce my friend, Cat.’ The redhead, and for some reason, she looked familiar. ‘Her husband Bones’ – here Vlad smiled coolly at the short-haired brunet – ‘is not my friend.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
How could you be nervous about asking me to marry you, Bones? I'd die for you. Why wouldn't I want to live for you as well?
-- Jeaniene Frost -
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You'll drain me dry, but not my neck, and you'll beg me to stop before I'm finished." -Bones
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!
-- Jeff Smith -
Flesh forgets. Bone remembers.
-- Jefferson BassSource : Jefferson Bass (2010). “Flesh and Bone: A Body Farm Thriller”, p.152, Hachette UK
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. . . my bones they'll burn or bury. It'll be my death.
-- Jenny Downham -
It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.
-- Jeremy Piven -
I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.
-- Jesmyn Ward -
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
-- Jessamyn WestSource : Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt
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Whether or not enlightenment is possible at the moment of death, the practices that prepare one for this possibility also bring one closer to the bone of life.
-- Joan HalifaxSource : Joan Halifax (2009). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.132, Shambhala Publications
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I have severe osteoporosis. Your bones start to collapse.
-- Joan Kirner -
Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.
-- John A. Macdonald -
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It will not out of the flesh that is bred in the bone.
-- John Heywood -
You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.
-- KaDee StricklandSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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How intense could you be? Can you be intense enough to pick this 500Lbs off the floor? Are you intense enough to pick this 700Lbs up? Squat down to the floor and stand back up? So what if your eyes are bloodshot! So what if your bones feel like snapping! WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO!
-- Kai Greene -
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Corpus Bones! I utterly loathe my life.
-- Karen CushmanSource : Karen Cushman (2014). “Catherine, Called Birdy”, p.72, Pan Macmillan
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I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.
-- Karl Lagerfeld -
I originally worked as an archaeologist in North Carolina, and when bones were found police would take them out to the bones lady at the university, and that was me.
-- Kathy ReichsSource : "This much I know" by Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2008.
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Bones tell me the story of a person's life — how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background,
-- Kathy Reichs -
He had got down to the bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple.
-- Kenneth Grahame -
The whisper of the blood and the pleading of the bone marrow.
-- Knut Hamsun -
I can pull a bone out of my shoulder and dislocate it
-- Kylie Bax -
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...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.
-- Laini Taylor -
You are a powerhouse of creativity; you were born magnificently expressive, available and aware. Before you had the words for it, you had an intrinsic sense of urgency because you knew down in your bones that the stakes are high.
-- Larry Silverberg -
I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.
-- Libba Bray -
My own apathy is bone chilling.
-- Lionel ShriverSource : Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.33, Counterpoint Press
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