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“Berlin is a skeleton which aches in the cold: it is my own skeleton aching. I feel in my bones the sharp ache of the frost in the girders of the overhead railway, in the iron-work of balconies, in bridges, tramlines, lamp-standards, latrines. The iron throbs and shrinks, the stone and the bricks ache dully, the plaster is numb.”

Source: The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris [and] Goodbye to Berlin

“Wives are good on paper, at least. until they turn into harpies with sharp claws and open check books. Then they're kind of frightening. And they put on all kinds of makeup and parade around the street with their shopping cart yelling "Sale on aisle seven!" at anyone who will listen. Their wooden clog sandals make a helluva racket on linoleum tile. Their plastic jewelry clatters like the bones of little children.”

“To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered in Palestine, the pope should get himself down to the dole queue as fast as possible. It is rather to claim that while faith, rather like love, must involve factual knowledge, it is not reducible to it.”

Ifs World Should Different Jesus Claims Bones Pope Palestine Science And Religion Like Love Factual Queues

Author:Terry Eagleton

“A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents.”

Kings Office Authority Bones Symbols Staff Sovereign Jester Signs And Symbols

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“For me, there are a lot of things you can imagine as an actor, and then there are things that you know in your bones and in your cells once they happen to you.”

Knows Happens Actors Imagine Bones Cells

Author:Rosemarie DeWitt

“In comedy you sometimes have to look at the funny bone a little bit. So, that was the hardest part - was not offending. I'm not laughing at anybody. We're laughing together about who we are - and the funnier part of who we are. I'm (sure) not writing this and calling you a stereotype. I'm not doing that.”

Writing Looks Littles Sometimes Together Bits Laughing Comedy Calling Little Bit Bones Hardest Who We Are Stereotype Offending Laughing Together Funny Bones

Author:Corbin Bernsen

“The love of the art is what keeps me going. It's that sound that runs through my bones.”

Art Running Sound Art Is Bones

Author:Gino Vannelli

“Sometimes you do absolutely know there's something there. You feel it in your bones. I actually literally feel it on my skin sometimes. I do get goosebumps. There are times when you go oh God, that works that moment! But you find you take it apart again.”

Knows Feels Sometimes Moments Skins Bones That Moment Goosebumps

Author:Oliver Parker

“Who and of what import were the men whose bones bulk the Great Wall, the thirty million Mao starved, or the thirty million children not yet five who die each year now? Why, they are the insignificant others, of course; living or dead, they are just some of the plentiful others...And you? To what end were we billions of oddballs born?”

Men Years Children Ends Dies Courses Born Millions Five He Man Wall Bones Billions Thirty Insignificant Imports Mao Plentiful Oddballs Great Wall

Book:For the Time Being

Source: For the Time Being

“Good God enlighten us! Which of these two belongs to the sterner sex - the man who sits in Whitehall all his life on a comfortable salary, or the woman who has to keep her teeth bared lest she has her meatless bone of 17s. 4d. a week snatched away from her and who has to produce the next generation on her off-days?”

Men Two Next Sex Generations Week Produce He Man Comfortable Bones Teeth Next Generation Salary Enlightening Good God

Book:The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17

Source: The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West 1911-17

“Throughout much of our lives, our association with the temporary has risen. This transitory body, a sack of bones and flesh, is considered erroneously as our true body and we have accepted this temporary condition as conclusive.”

Body Our Lives Conditions Bones Flesh Accepted Temporary Association Risen Transitory

Author:George Harrison

“The universe will throw somebody a bone every now and then, and you win the lottery. But for the most part, you get in this life what you put in.”

Universe Winning Bones This Life Now And Then Lottery

Author:Arian Foster

“I'm the best. That's why I'm so relaxed out there. You've got to have some arrogant bones in your body, especially to be a pitcher in the big leagues.”

Body Bigs Bones Your Body League Arrogant Relaxed Pitcher

Author:Josh Beckett

“God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.”

Thinking Break Laughter Bones Wounds Vanity Blunders Rashness

Book:The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God

Source: The Holy Wild: Trusting in the Character of God

“I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. .I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, . and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout . . . "Yes." .I want to know if you can get up . weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done. .I want to know what sustains you . when all else falls away.”

Ifs Knows Want Needs Stills Soul Done Fall Mines Bears Edges Betrayal Bones Being True Get Up Lakes Betray Weary Disappoint Be True To Yourself True To Yourself Accusation Bruised

Author:Oriah Dreamer

“He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.”

Land Stones Bones Flesh Eggs Shells Beer Drinking Ale Funny Beer Drinking Drinking Toast

Book:A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases

Source: A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages : and an Alphabetical Index, in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases

“You'll never be alone in the bone orchard.”

Author:Elvis Costello

“I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic pocketbooks on their laps, their knees apart, their skirts touching the ground... and cuentistas, old Latina women who stand, robust of breast, hips wide, and cry out the story ranchera style. Both clans storytell in the plain voice of women who have lived blood and babies, bread and bones. For them, story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.”

“We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. . . . Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, 'Too late.' ... Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world.”

“Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to be shaped and cleaned, cleaned as severely as a dog cleans a bone, cleaned until there's not a shred of anything superfluous.”

Writing Important Ideas Dog Paper Bones Superfluous

Author:Maya Angelou

“A plot is two dogs and one bone.”

Two Dog Bones Plot Two Dogs

Book:Secrets of successful fiction

Source: Secrets of successful fiction

“I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom and data is the knowledge.”

Brain Bones Data Software Skulls Hardware Semiconductors

Author:Masayoshi Son

“Everybody gave 100%. I mean everyone, because they all knew that the film had the bones and the heartbeat of something that could be good. And everyone was in on it and wanted it for me and wanted it for Roger and Beau.”

Heart Mean Wanted Film Bones Be Good Heartbeat Roger

Author:Pierce Brosnan

“Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don't tear the muscles from the bones. And so the muscles will have endurance and stability. And flexibility, which helps you throw the ball harder or have the snap to hit a ball. Or to take off quickly to steal a base.”

“Sometimes you even start to sound like the character, because you're living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets into your bones, it becomes a part of you.”

Sometimes Character Sound Bones Breathing

Author:Richard Dormer

“When I write, I speak with ghosts for years, and I see images that are a little bit out of focus. I see faces, but the faces change. At the moment that it's a real human being that's flesh and bone, it changes a character. It's much more precise and complex.”

Writing Years Humans Littles Real Moments Character Faces Speak Bits Human Beings Focus Little Bit Complexes Bones Flesh Ghost Precise Real Human

Author:Jaco Van Dormael

“The fact is that some of the mice [tested on with AZT] have contracted cancer. It attacks bone marrow. It is very toxic.”

Facts Cancer Bones Toxic Mice Tested Marrow Bone Marrow

Author:Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

“I know that God is our Father. He introduced His Son, Jesus Christ, to Joseph Smith. I declare to you that I know that Jesus is the Christ. I know that He lives. He was born in the meridian of time. He taught His gospel and was tried. He suffered and was crucified and resurrected on the third day. He, like His Father, has a body of flesh and bone. He made His Atonement. Of Him I bear witness. Of Him I am a witness.”

Knows Made Body Father Jesus Christ Born Taught Son Bears Jesus Christ Thirds Bones Flesh Witness Our Father Atonement Joseph Smith

Author:Boyd K. Packer

“Though we may feel we are "like a broken vessel," as the Psalmist says (Psalms 31:12), we must remember, that vessel is in the hands of the divine potter. Broken minds can be healed just the way broken bones and broken hearts are healed. While God is at work making those repairs, the rest of us can help by being merciful, nonjudgmental, and kind.”

Way Feels Mind Heart Kind May Helping Hands Remember Divine Broken Bones Vessel Potters Healed Merciful Being Me Psalms Broken Bone

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution.”

Taste Constitution Bones London Bread Destructive Ashes Insipid Chalk

Book:The expedition of Humphry Clinker. By the author of Roderic Random

Source: The expedition of Humphry Clinker. By the author of Roderic Random

“I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future - the timelessness of the rocks and the hills - all the people who have existed there.”

People Thinking Feels Whole Stories Shows Feelings Dream Past Fall Waiting Rocks Loneliness Structure Winter Bones Awful Hills Landscape Timelessness

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“God knows where every particle of the handful of dust has gone; he has marked in his book the wandering of every one of its atoms. He hath death so open before His view, that He can bring all these together, bone to bone, and clothe them with the very flesh that robed them in the days of yore, and make them live again.”

Knows Book Together Views Gone Bones Flesh Dust Wander Atoms Handful God Knows Particles

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Now I begin to be a disciple. I care for nothing, of visible or invisible things, so that I may but win Christ. Let fire and the cross, let the companies of wild beasts, let breaking of bones and tearing of limbs, let the grinding of the whole body, and all the malice of the devil, come upon me; be it so, only may I win Christ Jesus!”

May Whole Body Care Jesus Winning Christ Company Fire Devil Crosses Bones Invisible Beast Visible I Care Disciple Limbs Malice Wild Beasts Invisible Things

Author:Ignatius of Antioch

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.”

May Hours Break Cry Stones Sticks Corners Bones Idle Domestic Violence Sticks And Stones

Author:Eric Idle

“Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?”

Thinking Asks Bones Suspects Historian

Book:What is History?

Source: What is History?

“I would love to take an old space and restore it to exactly the way I want it. Like an old factory, just something with great bones and lots of character. I'd take an old house and flip it into something very modern inside, or the other way around.”

Way Want Character House Space Modern Bones Factories Flip Old Houses

Author:Jason Wu

“You run your plays, you know your plays, you study your plays, you study the other team, you do as much as you can, you go to practice, you get in shape, you do what you need to do, and then by the time you get to the game, you know your plays, but they have to feel like they're in your bones. That has to be an unconscious thing, it cannot be conscious. That is everything to me.”

Knows Needs Feels Play Running Games Practice Study Team Shapes Conscious Bones Unconscious Getting In Shape

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“What seems conceit, bad manners or cynicism is always a sign of things no ear have heard, no eyes have seen. You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.”

Knows War Seems Eye Spirit Heard Ears Bones Manners Cynicism Conceit Bad Manners

Author:Lucinda Williams

“O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?”

Ifs Thinking Should Use Given Design Arms Legs Bones Thee Lazy Arms And Legs

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.”

Heart Two Body Bones Undone

Author:Paul Simon

“The bone won't come to the dog. It's the dog that goes to the bone.”

Author:P.B. Kerr

“God knows the angel's wings must have been over us in view of the terrible mortality in all other camps up an down this line which seemed to be being built in bones.”

Knows Has Beens Lines Views Terrible Angel Built Wings Bones Mortality Camps God Knows

Author:Edward Dunlop

“It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.”

Habit Beats Bones Theologian Old Habits

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.”

Feels I Can Sometimes Bones

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“If you will stop all searching right now and tell the truth to yourself, you will know what is known in the core of your bones. You will know it with no image of it, no concept of it, no thought of it. You will know it as that which has eternally been here. And you will know it as yourself.”

Ifs Knows Known Right Now Concepts Bones Core Telling The Truth Truth To Yourself

Author:Gangaji

“The real enemy is not fat but us. We are the misusers; we are the greedy ones. If we have no better sense than to purposefully destroy ourselves, it is no wonder that nature punishes us with vile diseases and calls in our maker long before their time. Nature remembers every extra bite of cherry pie, T-bone steak, fried chicken, pizza.”

Ifs Long Real Remember Wonder Enemy Disease Bones Fats Extras Chickens Makers Bites Pie Greedy Pizza Cherries Steak Fried Chicken Cherry Pie

Author:Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

“I really have fun making up. I have a good face for making up, good bones. I do the shapings, then the eyes. Then I put on mascara and I do something else. Then I put on mascara again and do something else. Then I put on more mascara and my whole face is completely made up.”

Made Whole Eye Faces Fun Bones Having Fun Making Up Mascara

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“I feel in my bones that Lady Gaga is a true strident feminist and good for my soul - but how do I square this with the fact that she's constantly walking around in her bra and pants, even at, like, airports and stuff, where even nudists wear a fleece and linen drawstring trousers?”

Feels Soul Facts Stuff Walking Feminist Bones My Soul Squares Pants Airports Bras Trousers Gaga Linen Nudists Fleece

Author:Caitlin Moran

“I wanted to thunder and roar out the Gospel to all nations. It burned in my bones like fire pent up... Nothing would satisfy me but to cry abroad in the world, what the Lord was doing in the latter days.”

World Wanted Nations Lord Fire Cry Bones Latter Burned Thunder Latter Days

Book:Journal of Discourses

Source: Journal of Discourses

“Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent.”

Men Made Said Blood Crime He Man Despair Asking Responsible Bones Criminals Flesh Commit Innocent Ran Consent Robbing

Book:The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man

Source: The Devil's Race-track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings : the Best from Which was the Dream? and Fables of Man