Bones Quotes - Page 40

• 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

  Sacred, Holy, Description

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• Stars. Trees breathe in starlight year after year, and it goes deep into their bones. So when you cut a tree open, you smell a hundred years' worth of light. Ancient starlight that took millions of years to reach earth. That's why trees smell so beautiful and old.

  Frances O'Roark Dowell

  Beautiful, Stars, Cutting

  Frances O'Roark Dowell (2013). “Where I'd Like To Be”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Smart, People, Interesting

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• What a dull universe it would be if everything in it conformed to our expectations, if it held nothing to surprise or baffle us or confound our common sense. A century ago no one foresaw the existence of black holes, an expanding universe, oceans on Jupiter's moons, or DNA. What could be more enriching than to know that we share a common origin with all living things, that we are kin to chimpanzees, redwoods and mollusks? And isn't it a source of wonder to realize that the iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones were created in the bellies of supernovas?

  Steven Pinker

  Ocean, Moon, Dna

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• Why don't you try to do without him, why don't you try to live alone? Do you really need his hands for your passion? Do you really need his heart for your throne? Do you need his labor for your baby? Do you need his beast for the bone? Do you need to hold a leash to be a lady? I know that you can make it, you can make it on your own.

  Leonard Cohen

  Broken Heart, Baby, Passion

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs”, p.170, Random House

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• Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

  Yoko Ono

  Broken Heart, Flower, Men

  Yoko Ono (1970). “Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings by Yoko Ono”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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• I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.

  Erik Estrada

  Broken, Motorcycle, Ribs

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• Now I begin to be a disciple. Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Jesus, Fire, Long

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• If they break your heart, break their bones

  Greyson Chance

  Heart, Break, Ifs

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• I give in to nothing or nobody. Cut me, break my bones, it was all the same.

  Rocky Graziano

  Cutting, Giving, Break

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• When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.  What you emerged with what you are is an ocean of bliss.  Your cells and atoms and brain and bones and blood stream all of it is bliss.

  Robert Thurman

  Letting Go, Ocean, Cells

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• When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too must hurl ourselves against and through the literal and metaphorical concrete that contains and constrains us, that keeps us from talking about what is most important to us, that keeps us from living the way our bones know we can, that bars us from our home. It only takes one person to bring down a dam.

  Derrick Jensen

  Home, Talking, Important

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “A Language Older Than Words”, p.75, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

  Miller Williams

  War, Spirit, Bad Manners

  Miller Williams (1997). “The Ways We Touch: Poems”, p.55, University of Illinois Press

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• I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then I jumped in a rush of gold to the head, through black and cold, red and cold, brown and warm, giving water the weight and size of myself in order to imagine it, water with my bones, water with my mouth and my understanding. When my body was in some way a wave to swim in, one continuous fin from head to tail, I steered through rapids like a canoe, digging my hands in, keeping just ahead of the river.

  Alice Oswald

  Hands, Order, Rivers

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• I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine; I insist on color.

  Charles Bowden

  Believe, Flower, Wine

  "Bad Luck on an Otherwise Fine Night" by Chuck Bowden, www.esquire.com. September 5, 2014.

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• There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat.

  Mark Rippetoe

  Stress, Exercise, Growth

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• We live in a kind of dark age, craftily lit with synthetic light, so that no one can tell how dark it has really gotten. But our exiled spirits can tell. Deep in our bones resides an ancient singing couple who just won't give up making their beautiful, wild noise. The world won't end if we can find them.

  Martin Prechtel

  Beautiful, Giving Up, Couple

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• That the good that we do might live on after us, while the evil lies interred with their bones.

  Jennifer Lee Carrell

  Lying, Evil, Might

  Jennifer Lee Carrell (2007). “Interred with Their Bones”, p.361, Penguin

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• And a lot of the technique and the little T-Bone phrases that define his style, Chuck Berry, when he rearranged the beat, they became rock 'n roll guitar licks. So in essence, T-Bone was not only the first electric blues guitar player, but he was the first electric rock 'n roll guitar player, really.

  Duke Robillard

  Player, Rocks, Guitar

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• The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

  Andy Behrman

  Broken, Guilt, Six

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• The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written in Malayalam and finely translated into English by the author -- the timidity of our own English talent for political satire is embarrassingly laid bare. For this is dangerous stuff, and cut close to the bone. (...) Fiercest of all is Vijayan's Voltairean recoil from Indian cringing to power.

  David Selbourne

  Cutting, Political, Literature

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• The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart.

  Ed Sheeran

  Heart, Tongue, Break

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• May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve.

  Sappho

  Writing, Stronger, Naked

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• In a way, humans are not made of skin and bones as such, as we're made of stories.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Skins, Skin And Bones, Stories

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• We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace.

  Martin Luther

  Grace, Weary

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.8, Lulu.com

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