Quotes and Sayings About Skeletons
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Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.
-- Adam Gopnik -
Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.
-- Adoniram Judson Gordon -
What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us.
-- Alexandra Fuller -
...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I hear it: I make a stroke with the bow: the symphony begins in the depths, or springs with a bound onto the stage. If the old imbeciles hadn’t discovered only the false significance of Self, we wouldn’t have to now sweep away those millions of skeletons which have been piling up the products of their one-eyed intellect since time immemorial, and claiming themselves to be their authors!
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout provide a perspective from which one can read the image; otherwise we would do what Dadaists did when they put words in a little bag and then took them out at random in order to compose a poem.
-- Augusto De Luca -
Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.
-- Brian Eno -
The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.
-- Bruce Feiler -
I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. Its like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry.
-- Caroline Leavitt -
There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.
-- Casey Abrams -
An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.
-- Charles Dickens -
You'd better put sunblock on that skeleton head of yours. You're gonna fry." -Bobby
-- D. J. MacHale -
Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears.
-- Dan Simmons -
I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.
-- David Cone -
The best thing about me is there are no skeletons.
-- David Cross -
Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello.
-- David Crystal -
Everyone's got skeletons in their closet, and I've got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.
-- Denis Leary -
A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?
-- Derek Landy -
I myself identify as a recovering Blockhead. You'd be surprised how many twenty- and thirty-something hipster chicks have the NKOTB skeleton in their closet, albeit artfully concealed by stacks of Ksubi skinny jeans and ironic Judas Priest T-shirts.
-- Diablo Cody -
Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton.
-- Donald Johanson -
I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.
-- Donny Osmond -
The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.
-- Drew Goddard -
Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'
-- Edith Head -
You cant improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.
-- Eliza Coupe -
The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.
-- Ellen Hopkins -
America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.
-- Ellsworth Huntington -
If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.
-- Elmer Rice -
If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!
-- Eminem -
Structure is nothing if it is all you got. Skeletons spook people if they try to walk around on their own. I really wonder why XML does not.
-- Erik Naggum -
... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.
-- Frida Kahlo
