Bones Quotes - Page 35

• Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago.

  Nick Gordon

  Eight, Light, Long Ago

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• Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

  Shane Koyczan

  Hurt, Cutting, Heartache

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• Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties - all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name's Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion - these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

  David Foster Wallace

  Sex, Loneliness, Party

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• Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, Names, History

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.36

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• You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was made from his funny bone.

  James M. Barrie

  Funny, Men, Ribs

  "What Every Woman Knows". Book by James M. Barrie, September 3, 1908.

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• When I found the beautiful white bones in the desert I picked them up and took them home too...I have used these things to say what is to me the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Beautiful, Home, White

  Britta Benke, Georgia O'Keeffe (2000). “O'Keeffe”

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• Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Blood, Chill

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• Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Weakness, Fierce, Century

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.20, Stanford University Press

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

  Rush Limbaugh

  African American, Noses, Female

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• Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Dog, Philosophy, Mistake

  Olaf Stapledon (2013). “Odd John and Sirius”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• It's about the connecting force from form to form. It's the toe bone connecting to the shoulder bone. It's the bacterial kick of life force, something growing out of nothing, forming itself out of something else. Form never stops. And form is always environmental.

  Ali Smith

  Environmental, Growing, Toes

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• A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

  Edmund Burke

  America, People, Hardened

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.82

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• 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.

  Frances Power Cobbe

  Dog, Exercise, Animal

  "The Confessions of a Lost Dog" by Frances Power Cobbe, London: Griffith & Farran, (pp. 15-16), 1867.

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• I love him for his sake;
  And yet I know him a notorious liar,
  Think him a great way fool, solely a coward;
  Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him
  That they take place when virtue's steely bones
  Looks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see
  Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

  William Shakespeare

  Liars, I Love Him, Thinking

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.217

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• My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

  Chinua Achebe

  Fall, Son, Thought Provoking

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• There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Men, Self

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• Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone, I here, though there, yet both but one.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Love, Flesh, One Love

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• The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.

  Karen McDougal

  Kissing, Guy, Erotic

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• O man, whoever you are and wherever you come from, for I know you will come, I am Cyrus who won the Persians their empire. Do not therefore begrudge me this bit of earth that covers my bones.

  Cyrus the Great

  Army, Men, Earth

  Epitaph to Cyrus. "Plutarch: The Age of Alexander". Book by Plutarch, translated by Ian Scott-Kilvert, p. 326, 1973.

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• A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone.

  Matthew Polly

  Hurt, Evil, Wickedness

  Matthew Polly (2007). “American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in theNe w China”, p.252, Penguin

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• Now do I begin to be a disciple of Christ, and care for nothing in this world, that so I may find Jesus. Let fire, or the cross, or wild beasts, or the breaking of my bones, or the cutting of me to pieces, or the shattering of my whole body, yea, all the tortures of the devil - let them all come upon me, only let me enjoy my God.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Cutting, Fire

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• Fossil bones and footsteps and ruined homes are the solid facts of history, but the surest hints, the most enduring signs, lie in those miniscule genes. For a moment we protect them with our lives, then like relay runners with a baton, we pass them on to be carried by our descendents. There is a poetry in genetics which is more difficult to discern in broken bomes, and genes are the only unbroken living thread that weaves back and forth through all those boneyards.

  Jonathan Kingdon

  Lying, Home, Science

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• Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative writing. ...metaphors support lyrics like bones.

  Pat Pattison

  Writing, Support, Creative

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• Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

  Luis Alberto Urrea

  Yesterday, Alive, Body

  Luis Alberto Urrea (2006). “The Hummingbird's Daughter: A Novel”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness.

  Vijay Prashad

  Song, Lonely, Xenophobia

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