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“The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.”

Law Walks Horse Bones Muscles Circus Englishmen Legality

Author:Maxim Gorky

“Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man -- and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.”

Knows Men Want Needs Differences Know How Too Much Fame Bones Elephants Stardom Elephant Man

Book:Real Frank Zappa Book

Source: Real Frank Zappa Book

“Blue is the smoke of wrar, white the bones of men.”

Men War White Blue Bones Smoke

Author:Du Fu

“I'm a Taurus. To the bone.”

Bones Taurus

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender morsel by morsel until there is nothing left but dry bone and wig. She is winning-needless to say she has had so much more experience.”

Years Play Home Mother Games Winning Left Bones Dry Wigs Cannibal Dry Bones

Book:Bridgeport Bus

Source: Bridgeport Bus

“Raphael painted, Luther preached, Corneille wrote, and Milton sang; and through it all, for four hundred years, the dark captives wound to the sea amid the bleaching bones of the dead: for four hundred years the sharks followed the scurrying ships; for four hundred years America was strewn with the living and dying millions of a transplanted race; for four hundred years Ethiopia stretched forth her hands unto God.”

Source: Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois): An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race

“Humiliation, slavery, fear have perverted us to the bone; we no longer look like men... . Men must be granted the respect due to them.”

Men Looks Dignity Slavery Bones Dues Granted Humiliation

Author:Mohammed Dib

“A man is likewise form and expression, a written sign thrown unto boundless matter, an undifferentiated word of what is. I've therefore been created in the image of the inscriptions that, as a child, I used to project unto my bits of bone, stone, wood, and iron, probably even in the image of a single one of their words, a single one of their letters.”

Men Children Matter Form Used Humanity Bits Written Expression Projects Stones Letters Woods Bones Thrown Iron Boundless Inscriptions

Author:Mohammed Dib

“I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.”

Feelings Eye Feet Bones Active Fingertips Marrow Bone Marrow

Author:Karen Duffy

“I don't have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious.”

Body Spiritual Religious Bones

Author:Julie Burchill

“My wife and I lived all alone, contention was our only bone. I fought with her, she fought with me, and things went on right merrily. But now I live here by myself with hardly a damn thing on the shelf, and pass my days with little cheer since I have parted from my dear.”

Littles Marriage Wife Dear Bones My Wife Damn Cheer Shelves All Alone Contention Damn Things

Book:Selected Poems, 1945-2005

Source: Selected Poems, 1945-2005

“Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know.”

Knows Doe Body Faith Know How Air Direct Bones Flesh Your Body Muscles Do You Know Within You Lungs Assimilation Metabolism

Book:DAILY POWER for JOYFUL LIVING

Source: DAILY POWER for JOYFUL LIVING

“Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird! . . . What a mistake then to become a man! Vain have been my years - hundreds of years - of struggle only to become the man of sense-enjoyments.”

Men Years Has Beens Would Be Enjoy Goal Animal Mistake Struggle Dog He Man Bird Cat Bones Flesh Vain Meals Enjoyment Life Goal Wild Animal Menagerie Gusto

Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda

“Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.”

Reading Imagination Bones Bread Supplies Stimulation

Book:Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative problem-solving

Source: Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative problem-solving

“I find in the domestic duck that the bones of the wing weigh less and the bones of the leg more, in proportion to the whole skeleton, than do the same bones in the wild duck; and this change may be safely attributed to the domestic duck flying much less, and walking more, than its wild parents.”

May Whole Science Parent Change Walking Wings Legs Bones Flying Proportion Ducks Skeletons

Book:The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text

Source: The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text

“I feel it my bounden duty to not only replace displaced bones, but also teach others, so that the physical and spiritual may enjoy health, happiness and the full fruition of our earthly lives.”

Feels May Spiritual Enjoy Teach Duty Bones Fruition Chiropractic

Author:Daniel D. Palmer

“Displacement of any part of the skeletal frame may press against nerves, which are the channels of communication, intensifying or decreasing their carrying capacity, creating either too much or not enough functionating, an aberration known as disease. The nature of the affection depends upon the shape of the bone, the amount of pressure, age of patient, character of nerves impinged upon and the individual makeup.”

“... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories as there are main characters, and each of these stories has to have multiple plots to keep it going - blood and bone, nerve and tissue, forgotten longing and unknown events.”

Writing Character Stories Remember Novel Blood Events Longing Forgotten Bones Plot Nerves Multiple Tissues Main Characters

Book:This Year You Write Your Novel

Source: This Year You Write Your Novel

“Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.”

Writing Wells Happens Seven Scripts Eight Bones Episodes

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.”

Shows Age Grows Memories Shapes Bones Old Age Old Man

Book:First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth

Source: First trilogy: Herself surprised: To be a pilgrim. The horse's mouth

“Well, T Bone's had a remarkable career as a producer since the time that we first worked together. He was dividing his time between recording and producing when we first met, and touring. We toured together and we were great friends.”

Firsts Wells Together Careers Mets Bones Producers Remarkable Touring Dividing Great Friend

Author:Elvis Costello

“Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.”

People Wells Kind Beautiful Faces Cutting Wonderful Structure Bones Ridiculous Excellent Necks Curtains

Author:Vidal Sassoon

“I have no history but the length of my bones.”

History Bones Length

Book:The hunting dark

Source: The hunting dark

“The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.”

Doe Seems Pain Form Suffering Causes Bones Flesh Sickness Penetrate Suitable Penance

Book:The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

Source: The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

“You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.”

Pay Love You Bones Flesh Violence Against Women

Author:Pat Benatar

“The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the flesh and fat; but the spirit is independent of them; it requires only muscle, bone and nerve for the true exercise of its functions. We cannot lose our liberty, because we cannot cease to think.”

Thinking Country Body Spirit Loses Wealth Liberty Exercise Function Independent Prosperity Bones Flesh Cease Fats Muscles Nerves Fullness

Book:The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy

Source: The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy

“Even a blind dog can find a bone every so often.”

Opportunity Dog Blind Bones

Author:Alexei Sayle

“I make no bones about it. I have no understanding of pastry.”

Understanding Bones Pastries

Author:Michael Symon

“I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.”

Kind America Fall My Favorite Bones Meat Lambs Favorites Things Shank

Author:Natasha Bedingfield

“I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.”

Body Answers Serious Jokes Raised Bones Riddle Pranks

Author:James Brolin

“My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.”

Thinking Seems Political Parent Involved Bones Get Involved

Author:Saffron Burrows

“China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish.”

Issues Majors Responsible Trade Wine Fishes China Bones Driving Illegal Conservation Tigers Indonesia Horns Tropical Reefs Timber Logging Rhinos

Author:Mark Carwardine

“The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.”

Body Land Areas Appearance Bones Dry Carrie Layers Dry Land

Author:Georges Cuvier

“Slow and steady wins the race. I feel like I know in my bones if we're doing a good job and continue to do a good job, the ratings will come.”

Ifs Knows Feels Jobs Winning Race Bones Steady Good Job Rating Slow And Steady

Author:Julie Chen

“There are some very significant changes in the way the fluids are distributed in our body, the way our heart functions initially, and as well as our bone and muscle.”

Way Wells Heart Body Function Bones Significant Muscles Fluid Significant Change

Author:Laurel Clark

“Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run.”

Thinking Long Shows Running Steps Mass Research Bones Long Runs Maintaining

Author:Lois Capps

“I'm a geek to the bone.”

Bones Geek

Author:Jeff Dunham

“One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.”

Knows Writing Littles Lines Poet My Favorite Bones Compare Translators Spanish And English

Author:Anita Diament

“Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries.”

“Every year, nearly two-thirds of the approximately 200,000 patients in need of a bone marrow transplant will not find a marrow donor that matches within their families.”

Needs Years Two Thirds Patient Bones Donors Marrow Transplants Bone Marrow

Author:Nathan Deal

“I have dangerous bones in my body.”

Body Dangerous Bones

Author:Vin Diesel

“I used to smoke cigarettes, ten a day, but gave up when I was 28. Now my vice is several cups of coffee a day, which isn't great if you're prone to weak bones as I am, as caffeine can leach calcium.”

Ifs Used Ten Weak Vices Bones Coffee Cups Smoke Cigarette Gave Up Coffee Cup Caffeine Calcium

Author:Britt Ekland

“Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.”

Knows Book Stories Dies Black Fire Hair Definitions Missions Bones Holes Beach Convince Over It Fabulous Galaxy Black Hole

Author:Dorothea Benton Frank

“When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I've ever done - and I've visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc.”

Said Done Crazy Security Reader Taste Research Prison Bones Shooting Collections Etc Locked Location Maximum Gallery Intimidating Visiting Psych Trust Myself

Author:Lisa Gardner

“I don't have a political bone in my body.”

Body Political Bones

Author:Joan Allen

“Baby, this town rips the bones from our back it's a death trap, it's a suicide rap. We got to get out while we're young.”

Young Death Baby Towns Suicide Rap Bones Traps Rip

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Beatle bones and smokin' stones the dry sands fall.”

Fall Stones Bones Dry Sand

Author:Don Van Vliet

“In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chaparral, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness.”

Needs Nature Natural Possibility Bones Hills Scent Curves Wildness Shoreline

Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“I'm a phallus in pigtails, and there's blood on my nose, and my tissue is rotting where the rats chew my bones. And my eye sockets empty, see nothing but pain, I keep having this brainstorm about twelve times a day.”

Eye Pain Blood Empty Bones Noses Twelve Rats Low Self Esteem Tissues Rotting Pigtails

Author:David Bowie

“The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.”

Love Moments Love Is Magic Bones One Love Undone

Author:Gordon Lightfoot

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