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“I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.”

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Author:Bob Woodward

“I was lucky to wander into evolutionary theory, one of the most exciting and important of all scientific fields. I had never heard of it when I started at a rather tender age; I was simply awed by dinosaurs. I thought paleontologists spent their lives digging up bones and putting them together, never venturing beyond the momentous issue of what connects to what. Then I discovered evolutionary theory. Ever since then, the duality of natural history-richness in particularities and potential union in underlying explanation-has propelled me.”

Important Age Together Natural Issues Heard Atheism Fields Theory Lucky Exciting Unions Bones Wander Explanation Richness Duality Digging Dinosaurs Natural History

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“The basic formulation, or bare-bones mechanics, of natural selection is a disarmingly simple argument, based on three undeniable facts (overproduction of offspring, variation, and heritability) and one syllogistic inference (natural selection, or the claim that organisms enjoying differential reproductive success will, on average, be those variants that are fortuitously better adapted to changing local environments, and that these variants will then pass their favored traits to offspring by inheritance).”

“This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of the need to blow some steam off?”

People Needs Different Happens Talking Heard Stupid Emotional Blow Bones Release Good Times Hateful Having A Good Time Skulls Steam Initiation Emotional Release Skull And Bones

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“That dude scored 8 points in the last 19 seconds, pulled out a miracle win at the Garden. He made me choke on a chicken bone that day. I'm serious.”

Made Lasts Winning Serious Basketball Garden Miracle Bones Chickens Nba Seconds Choke

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“A great scholar, in the highest sense of the term, is not one who depends simply on an infinite memory, but also on an infinite and electrical power of combination; bringing together from the four winds, like the Angel of the Resurrection, what else were dust from dead men's bones, into the unity of breathing life.”

Source: Joan of Arc: And Other Selections from Thomas De Quincey. Joan of Arc. The English mail coach (abridged).. Levana and our ladies of sorrow. Dinner, real and reputed (abridged).. I.. II.. III.. IV.

“There are some times when I think acting can be a noble profession. And when those rare roles come along, like Down to the Bone, you have the opportunity to be of service.”

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Author:Vera Farmiga

“If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.”

Ifs Want Wish Succeed Picks Bones All Time Backbone Funny Bones

Author:Reba McEntire

“I felt bad about myself because certain people were relentlessly attacking me and my reputation. My mom kept saying 'Let it go, Lauren, It doesn't matter' ... [I] realized I had to stop worrying about what other people think. The next day I got a tattoo on my lower back that says 'sticks and stones', because they may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”

“I was just happy the fight was over, I knew my arm was broken in the fight. I definitely wasn't going to quit - I've broken bones before and continued fighting but there was a part of me wondering how I was going to.....what strategy I was going to use, to win this fight with a broken left arm in the second and third rounds”

Use Fighting Winning Left Wonder Broken Arms Thirds Strategy Rounds Bones Quitting Broken Bone

Author:Rich Franklin

“I'm tired of being ruled by the Skull and Bones. The only place they belong are on punk-rock albums!”

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Author:Jello Biafra

“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers. They know it is time to be still.”

Knows Stills Tree Arms Standing Sticks Bones Lovely Dancer November

Book:In November

Source: In November

“I love prints of skulls and bones and have some taxidermy - a crow and a rabbit - to remind me of home. I like art and have a big portrait of Bjork.”

Art Home Bigs Bones Print Portraits Rabbits Crow Skulls Taxidermy Skull And Bones

Author:Ellie Goulding

“A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.”

Book Dog Critics Bones Stomach Guests Fling

Book:Tale of a tub. Battle of the books. A discourse concerning the mechancial operation of the spirit. Abstract of the history of England ... Letters ... Poems ascribed to Swift

Source: Tale of a tub. Battle of the books. A discourse concerning the mechancial operation of the spirit. Abstract of the history of England ... Letters ... Poems ascribed to Swift

“Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man jack of them, and every sunlit vigorous woman and child, too, who had seemed so alive and pleased, was cold as a meat hook, and new chattering people trampled their bones unregarding, and rubbed their hands together and got to work improving their prospects till their own feet slipped and they went under themselves ... Every place was a tilting edge.”

People Men Children Hands Together Mistake Alive Feet Cold Luck Edges Bones Accidents Meat Freak Improving Hook Vigorous Bad Luck Prospects Enterprising Hands Together

Book:The Annie Dillard reader

Source: The Annie Dillard reader

“Two things I'm obsessed with are the countryside and fields and being in the open space and body parts, so you'll hear me mentioning body parts and human anatomy. I've listened to my songs and I think I am quite visual and I talk about bones and flesh a lot.”

Thinking Humans Two Body Song Space Fields Bones Flesh Obsessed Visuals Two Things Countryside Anatomy Open Spaces

Author:Ellie Goulding

“Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding”

People Giving Long Might Science Understanding Knowledge Century Bones Muscles Nerves Advancing

Book:Howard's End

Source: Howard's End

“Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so? Why not, for a change, take a nip, take a snap at the fat ones who wouldn't notice? But no! It is sleek, warm, cat-like summer that makes the fat one's life a misery. Winter is all for bones.”

People Should Worry Terrible Summer Cat Misery Winter Warm Bones Fats Why Not Snaps Hounds Terrible Times

Book:The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

Source: The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield

“Oh! if you could only hear Intemperance with drunkards' bones drumming on the top of the wine cask the Dead March of immortal souls, you would go home and kneel down and pray God that rather than your children should ever become the victims of this evil habit, you might carry them out to Greenwood and put them down in the last slumber, waiting for the flowers of spring to come over the grave-sweet prophecies of the resurrection. God hath a balm for such a Wound, but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted heath of a drunkard's sepulcher?”

“If the bones of all those who have fallen as a prey to intemperance could be piled up it would make a vast pyramid. Who will gird himself for the journey and try with me to scale this mountain of the dead--going up miles high on human carcasses to find still other peaks far above, mountain above mountain, white with the bones of drunkards.”

Ifs Trying Humans Stills White Journey Mountain Bones Miles Scales Fallen Prey Pyramids Drunkards Intemperance

Author:Thomas De Witt Talmage

“I was so pleased and excited by your letter that I trotted about all day like a puppy with a bone.”

Letters Excited Bones Puppy

Book:The letters of Virginia Woolf

Source: The letters of Virginia Woolf

“Many friends have said to me, 'I never know when you write your books, because I've never seen you writing, or even seen you go away to write.' I must behave rather as dogs do when they retire with a bone; they depart in a secretive manner and you do not see them again for an odd half hour. They return self-consciously with mud on their noses. I do much the same.”

Knows Writing Said Book Self Hours Half Dog Return Bones Noses Odd Behave Going Away Retiring Mud Half Hours Many Friends Secretive

Book:Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

Source: Agatha Christie: An Autobiography

“In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The River Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine.”

Wells Two Cities Known Divine Rivers Stones Towns Bones Defined Reign Well Known Seventies Monk Hideous Fangs Rags Stink Pavement Sewers Cologne Nymphs Wenches

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Love says, mine. Love says, I could eat you up. Love says, stay as you are, be my own private thing, don't you dare have ideas I don't share. Love has just got to gobble the other, bones and all, crunch. I don't want to do that. I sure don't want it done to me!”

Want Ideas Done My Own Share Mines Dare Bones Crunch Private Things

Book:Braided Lives

Source: Braided Lives

“The fangs of a bear, and the tusks of a wild boar, do not bite worse and make deeper gashes than a goose-quill sometimes; no, not even the badger himself, who is said to be so tenacious of his bite that he will not give over his hold till he feels his teeth meet and the bones crack.”

Giving Feels Said Sometimes Bears Critics Deeper Bones Teeth Cracks Bites Geese Fangs Tenacious Quills Badgers Boars

Author:James Howell

“Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.”

Knows Giving Art Character Hands Opportunity Force Sports Differences White Break Player Personality Art Is Tests Shining Bones Boundaries Sonnet Beauty Within

Author:Rita Mae Brown

“An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.”

Persons Whole Interesting Support Expression Bones Plot

Author:Ivy Compton-Burnett

“The grief of losing my father has come in waves over the years, as it does with most people. His love and devotion as a father provided my closest, most intimate relationship. Dad, and our time together, is in my bones. While reflecting on him, the memories themselves seem to boil down into certain 'essences of Dad.'”