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“It is hard to communicate understanding because that is something you get by living with a problem for a long time. You study it, perhaps for years, you get the feel of it and it is in your bones. You can't convey that to anyone else. Having studied the problem for five years you may be able to present it in such a way that it would take somebody else less time to get to that point than it took you. But if they haven't struggled with the problem and seen all the pitfalls, then they haven't really understood it.”

Ifs Way Feels Years May Long Hard Problem Able Understanding Study Five Havens Long Time Understood Communicate Bones Math Five Years Pitfalls

Author:Michael Atiyah

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.”

Thinking May Break Stones Sticks Bones Math Sticks And Stones

Author:Randall Munroe

“A good dog deserves a good bone.”

Dog Deserve Bones Canine Good Dog

Author:Ben Jonson

“... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.”

Might Earth Spirit Growth Water Nature Blood Rocks Mountain Travel Spring Connections Bones Flesh Soil Arrangements

Book:Da Vinci Notebooks

Source: Da Vinci Notebooks

“The only decent bone in her body was mine.”

Body Mines Bones Decent Women Bashing

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone is to enjoy a laugh, even at one's own expense. The wishbone is to think by, set one's goals high and have dreams and ambitions. And the backbone - well, that's what a player needs to get up and go to work and make those dreams come true.”

Thinking Needs Wells Kind Dream Bigs Three Sports Enjoy Goal Laughing Player Ambition Bones Get Up Settling Expenses Dreams Come True Backbone Wishbones

Author:Duffy Daugherty

“The pubic bones (seen on x ray) are now well defined and represent a remarkable rebuilding of bone and halting of the cancer process. The ischium are also reforming and the illi (hip bones) likewise show diminution of bone lysis. No sane, honest physician could call this a "spontaneous remission."”

Wells Shows Process Honest Cancer Bones Defined Hips Remarkable Rays Sane Physicians Spontaneous Rebuilding Remission

Author:Robert Willner

“Sometimes you need to be terrified to your bones, in order for you to find your way to safety. Pain somewhat has this ability to push you beyond your comfort zone so that you can come back even stronger. To me, obstacles are not a hindrance but as stepping stones to success.”

Way Needs Sometimes Pain Order Ability Comfort Stones Stronger Safety Obstacles Bones Zone Terrified Comfort Zone Stepping Stones Hindrance

Author:Rita Zahara

“Its a dog eat dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk Bone.”

World Perfect Dog Bones Milk Mr Perfect

Author:Bobby Heenan

“My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones.”

Skins Bones Nicknames Skin And Bones

Author:Ellen Barkin

“So, probably … when I started painting the pelvis bones I was most interested in the holes in the bones — what I saw through them- particularly the blue from holding them up in the sun against the sky as one is apt to do when one seems to have more sky than earth in one’s world … they were most beautiful against the Blue — that Blue that will always be there as it is now after all man’s destruction is finished.”

Men World Seems Earth Beautiful Sun Saws Sky Painting Destruction Blue Bones Finished Holes

Book:An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe

Source: An enduring spirit: the art of Georgia O'Keeffe

“I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do not care which of them you think White.”

Thinking Care Literature Language White Hatred Bones Separation Segregation Apartheid Detest

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“I don't see why the likes o' thee Without axin' leave should go makin' free With the shank or the shin o' my father's kin; So hand the old bone over! Rover! Trover! Though dead he be, it belongs to he; So hand the old bnone over!”

Should Hands Father Bones Likes Thee Shank

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?”

Shapes Bones Flesh

Book:Selected Short Stories

Source: Selected Short Stories

“Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its impulses for nonviolence, justice and equality. He exposes the fallacy of the claim that everyone can be rich and successful provided they work hard. He points to the millions who work themselves to the bone and still remain hungry.”

“In real life I'm bone dry and when I play I'm a mango and in sex I'm starving to be a dripping mango”

Real Play Sex Bones Real Life Dry Starving Dripping

Author:Tori Amos

“What began it all was the bright bone of a dream I could hardly hold onto.”

Book:Running in the Family

Source: Running in the Family

“The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.”

Light Hell Path Bones Posts Priests Lamps Monk Skulls Bishops Paved Roads

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .”

Self Despair Skins Bones Rooted Pale Glamour Childlike Sinister Auras Gum Admiring Chewing Carelessness Otherness Naivete Skin And Bones

Book:The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

“When Jesus Christ comes back, it is not the liberal politicians who ought to be trembling, it's the pastors…because so many men have built their 'ministries' on the dry dead bones of unconverted church members.”

Men Past Jesus Christ Church Ought Politician Members Jesus Christ Built Bones Dry Ministry Pastor Trembling Church Members

Author:Paul Washer

“We are talking. It's a shame. What is said is murdered. Our words that will not grow any bigger or any lovelier will wilt inside our bones. Words wither feelings.”

Said Feelings Grows Talking Bigger Shame Bones Our Words

Author:Violette Leduc

“Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves.”

Heart Stories Memories Space Shapes Forgotten Clouds Patterns Bones Worms Purple Crushed Spills Mills Polished Space Between

Author:Keith Miller

“A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.”

Mystery Bones Forests Desert Truth Of Life

Author:Keith Miller

“I have had much experience with the unclean and uncivilized in the recent past. Shall I tell you what I discovered? I am not the state of my feet. I am not the dirt on my hands or the hygiene of my private parts. If I were these things, I would not have been at liberty to pray at any time since my arrest. But I did pray, because I am not these things. In the end, I am not even myself. I am a string of bones speaking the word God.”

Ifs Has Beens Ends States Hands Past Liberty Feet Praying Bones Strings Dirt Hygiene Uncivilized Private Parts Recent Past

Author:G. Willow Wilson

“I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.”

People Want Body Lasts Bones Competing

Author:Paloma Faith

“The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.”

Eye America Species Bones Giants Niagara Nephilim

Book:Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings

Source: Abraham Lincoln: Selected Speeches and Writings

“I do not want to discuss evolution in such depth, however, only touch on it from my own perspective: from the moment when I stood on the Serengeti plains holding the fossilized bones of ancient creatures in my hands to the moment when, staring into the eyes of a chimpanzee, I saw a thinking, reasoning personality looking back. You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves.”

“Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.”

Body Exercise Weak Weight Bones Your Body Tendencies Density

Author:Ann Richards

“This is what we see when we look up at Rainier, the beauty, the horror, the awe the unbelievability of size that confirms our own consequence on this earth. We look at the mountain, like god and can imagine nothing larger. Its incompressible life-span reminds us of the fleeting mortality of our own bones. It looms over our lives on clear days and and stay present but hidden through the clouds of winter. Like god it remains everywhere forever.”

Looks Earth Forever Clear Our Lives Imagine Horror Mountain Consequence Remains Winter Clouds Size Bones Look Up Awe Mortality Fleeting Life Span Clear Day

Author:Bruce Barcott

“What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could not possibly remain closeted in that windowless, bone-chilling room. Though outside lay the sea of irrationality, it was far more agreeable to swim in its waters until presently I drowned.”

World Water Rooms Powerful Sea Logic Lays Bones Swim Frightened Mechanism Chill Irrationality

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.”

Firsts Novel Bones Michigan Stanford Salvage

Author:Jesmyn Ward

“And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.”

Healing Filled Bones Softness Starlight

Book:When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

“Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they then devour the living flesh, rot the bones, and penetrate to the very marrow. Philosophy at first refutes errors. But if it is not stopped at this point, it goes on to attack truths. And when it is left on its own, it goes so far that it no longer knows where it is and can find no stopping place.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Philosophy Left Goes On Errors Bones Flesh Wounds Stopping Penetrate Powder Marrow

Author:Pierre Bayle

“The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.”

Bones Dust Desert Arizona

Author:Vera Nazarian

“...Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth.”

Ifs Men World Mind Littles Moments Reality Truth Running White Rocks Mathematics Bones Fragments Parallels Explosions

Author:Robinson Jeffers

“I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.”

Made Book Body Building Built Bones Shelter Huts

Author:Ben Nicholson

“In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf.”

Men Ends Earth Fall House Fire Fields Building Stones Bones Flesh Destroyed Beast Factories Ashes Leafs Succession Fur Rise And Fall Timber Fertilizer Compost Open Fields

Author:T. S. Eliot

“I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing, In my veins, in my bones I feel it,- The small water seeping upward, The tight grains parting at last. When sprouts break out, Slippery as fish, I quail, lean to beginnings, sheath-wet.”

Feels I Can Lasts Water Break Cutting Fishes Bones Seeds Wet Grain Veins Parting Break Out Slippery Sprouts Sobbing Quails

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more.”

Knows Trying Kind Persons Said Guy Brain Connections Bones Fighter Noses Opponents Boxing That Guy Affinity

Author:Mike Tyson

“The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.”

Shapes Bones Flesh Prose Grammar

Book:Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wicked Good Prose

Source: Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wicked Good Prose

“In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.”

Effort Society Mouths Gold Bones Teeth Affliction Filling Diseased

Author:Khalil Gibran

“How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry.”

Care Fall Father Sleep Money Brain Objects Industry Gold Careful Bones Foolish Broke Revolt

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

“Life's bare as a bone.”

Author:Virginia Woolf

“Healing comes when our story is raw, bone-deep and full of hunger for what only Jesus can offer.”

Stories Jesus Healing Offers Hunger Bones

Author:Dan B. Allender

“Superman, when he's fighting you, isn't like Batman. He also isn't like Spider-man, who will bully you and make fun of his villains. Why do you think Spider-man's villains all hate him so much? Maybe because as he breaks their bones he's mocking them! Batman's villains are all insane! Superman, when he goes after someone, is essentially not trying to beat them. He's trying to save them from themselves.”

Thinking Men Trying Hate Fighting Fun Break Beats Bones Insane Villain Bully Spiders Spider Man Hate Him

Author:Max Landis

“Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be counted, but when a healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.”

Humans Body Beautiful Style Bones Veins Human Body Prominent

Author:Tacitus

“To me, letters have always been a robust medium of sublimation. I don't remember what I was like before I learned my ABC's, but for as long as I can remember I have made them with my fingers and felt them in my bones.”

Long Made I Can Remember Felt Letters Fingers Bones Mediums Robust Abc's

Book:Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory

Source: Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory

“It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.”

Jobs Language Bones

Book:The Stand

Source: The Stand

“The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.”

People Bones Desert Arizona Procrastinating Bleaching

Author:Robert Benchley

“We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.”

Government Spirit Republican Bones Veins Syphilis

Author:Charles Baudelaire