Skulls Quotes

• Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

  James Frey

  Hipster, Heart, Pieces

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.287, Rutgers University Press

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• We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.

  George Orwell

  Reality, Mind, Matter

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.569, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Reality is inside the skull.

  George Orwell

  Reality

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.356, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The skull is nature's sculpture.

  David Bailey

  Sculpture

  "David Bailey: out of his skulls" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2010.

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• Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.

  Salman Rushdie

  Honesty, Mask

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

  Robert E. Howard

  Live Life, Men, Civilization

  Robert E. Howard (2007). “The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 2: Grim Lands”, p.31, Del Rey

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• Life's true face is the skull.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Faces

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.

  Brian Aldiss

  Sleep, Night, Mind

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• I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

  Debbie Harry

  Nature, Names, Long

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• A fully open mind could shatter the skull in both directions.

  Henry Flynt

  Mind, Open Mind

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• The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

  Eric Berne

  Destiny, Goes On, Humans

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• You should have seen the look on your skull.

  Rich Burlew

  Should Have, Goggles, Looks

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• Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Bird, Mind, Flapping

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

  Mark Twain

  Boys, Men, Museums

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• Hell is paved with infants skulls.

  Richard Baxter

  Religious, Hell, Infant

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 362-364, 1922.

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• I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Writing, Bears, Silent

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• Inside skull vast as outside skull

  Allen Ginsberg

  Allen Ginsberg (2015). “The Essential Ginsberg”, p.147, Penguin UK

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• I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.

  P. D. James

  Skins, Facts, Facts Of Life

  P.D. James (2012). “The Skull Beneath the Skin: A Cordelia Gray Mystery”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• My skull is crammed with quotations.

  Susan Sontag

  Quotations

  Source: ctheory.net

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• When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Boxing, Anarchy

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• It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Intention, Moriarty

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.500, Race Point Pub

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• The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Mind, Leisure

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• Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Religion, Hell, Priests

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 362-64, 1922.

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• The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.

  Sylvia Plath

  Yesterday, Slime, Hollow

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.57, Anchor

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• I have a real passion for bones. I have many others in Boisgeloup: skeletons of birds, dog's and sheep's heads. I even have a rhinoceros skull.

  Pablo Picasso

  Dog, Real, Passion

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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