Skeletons Quotes

• If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Family, Dance

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• They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

  Imelda Marcos

  Beautiful, Shoes, Thank God

  "The shoe must go on" by John Aglionby, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2001.

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• One thing you’ll say for skeletons, they’ll always give you a smile.

  Steve Aylett

  Giving, One Thing

  "Shaw thing", www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2006.

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• The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

  Henry Miller

  Literature, World, Get Up

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.191, New Directions Publishing

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• Every heart has its own skeletons.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Heart

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “Anna Karenina”, p.124, Xist Publishing

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• The bones of the skeleton which support the body can become the bars of the cage which imprison the spirit.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Support, Bars, Body

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• Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Kings, Fun, Pain

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 19, 2014

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• If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Dance, Witty

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.

  Lauren Groff

  Needs, Stories, Sometimes

  "Bit And Peace: Lauren Groff’s Arcadia". Interview with Clare Stein, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 8, 2012.

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• I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.

  Mary Roach

  Beautiful, Thinking, Beautiful Things

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• The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.

  Adrian Rogers

  Records, Faces, Judgment

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• I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.

  Thom Yorke

  Play, Waiting, Dies

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• There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.

  Naomi Watts

  Closets, Ashamed, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust.

  Demetri Martin

  Baby, Men, Dust

  "Who Am I?" by Demetri Martin, www.newyorker.com. February 28, 2011.

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• If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.

  Elmer Rice

  Body, Visible, Ifs

  Elmer Rice (1998). “Dream Girl”, p.15, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

  Wilson Mizner

  Restless, Closets

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• Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.

  Sherman Alexie

  Past, Watches, Behind You

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• There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!

  John Hawkes

  Closets

  "John Hawkes: 'I play nerds, psychos ... psycho-nerds'". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2012.

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• Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing you think is gonna destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to people with skeletons is to dust them off every now and then-- as long as your closet's aint full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.

  Tyler Perry

  Thinking, Dust, Two

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• Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mrs Dalloway, Habit, Humans

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.49, Broadview Press

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• Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.

  Paul Klee

  People, Humanity, Skins

  Werner Schmalenbach, Paul Klee, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Germany) (1986). “Paul Klee: the Düsseldorf collection”, Prestel Pub

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• The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.

  James Salter

  Dream, Reality

  "A Sport and a Pastime". Book by James Salter, 1967.

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• Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Feet, Scythes, Seven

  "Hogfather" by Terry Pratchett, Harper, (p. 47), March 2008.

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• These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don’t wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they’re not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.

  Sherman Alexie

  Dream, Memories, Past

  FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Jan 18, 2017

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• 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

  Writing, Dust, Dancing

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