Quotes by Skulls All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them. George Orwell skulls long believe During my senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can't say anything more. George W. Bush senior skulls years Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. George Orwell eyes-watching skulls We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on. Glenn Danzig snakes circles skulls Reality is inside the skull. George Orwell skulls reality The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity. Grant Morrison portal skulls infinity You know, many people believe that we archaeologists are just a collection of old fogies digging around in the ruins after old dried up skulls and bones. Griffin Jay skulls believe people Can you imagine any better example of divine creative accomplishment that the consummate flying machine that is a bird? The skeleton, very flexible and strong, is also largely pneumatic - especially in the bigger birds. The beak, skull, feet, and all the other bones of a 25-pound pelican have been found to weigh but 23 ounces. Guy Murchie skeletons skulls strong Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews. Hafez al-Assad skulls dust enemy I think one of poetry's functions is not to give us what we want... The poet isn't always of use to the tribe. The tribe thrives on the consensual. The tribe is pulling together to face the intruder who threatens it. Meanwhile, the poet is sitting by himself in the graveyard talking to a skull. Heather McHugh skulls talking thinking Perhaps already I am dead, And these perhaps are phantoms vain; - These motley phantasies that pass At night through my disordered brain. Perhaps with ancient heathen shapes, Old faded gods, this brain is full; Who, for their most unholy rites, Have chosen a dead poet's skull. Heinrich Heine skulls brain night A fully open mind could shatter the skull in both directions. Henry Flynt open-mind skulls mind Moreover he saw a skull floating on the surface of the water and he said unto it: Because you drowned others they drowned you; and those that drowned you will eventually be drowned. Hillel the Elder floating skulls water Suppose within each book there is another book, and within every letter on every page another volume constantly unfolding; but these volumes take no space on the desk. Suppose knowledge could be reduced to a quintessence, held within a picture, a sign, held within a place which is no place. Suppose the human skull were to become capacious, spaces opening inside it, humming chambers like beehives. Hilary Mantel skulls space book The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. Herman Melville skulls light brain Pompeii has nothing to teach us, Hilda Doolittle skulls brain heart Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul. Herman Melville skulls character men Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls? Honore de Balzac skulls sight heart You're not going to die?" "Not right this minute." And of course, saying something like that usually resulted in immediate dying. I braced myself for a stray meteorite falling through the roof to crush my skull. Ilona Andrews crush skulls fall Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand. Ilka Chase oil skulls hands «1234567891011»
