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“...if you don't know by this time what kind of skull you want when you're dead, and what you have to do to earn it... then what's the use of talking?”

Inspirational Attitude Skulls

Author:J.D. Salinger

“There is a wind, and the flowers on the window-sill, and their shadows on the curtains, are waving. Like swans dipping their beaks in water. Like the incalculable raising its head, uselessly and wildly, for one moment, before it sinks down, beaten, into the darkness. Like skulls on long, thin necks. Plunging wildly when the wind blows to the end of the curtain, which is their nothingness. Distorting themselves as they plunge. The musty smell, the bugs, the loneliness, this room, which is part of the street outside - this is all I want from life.”

Loneliness Shadow Skulls Swans

Book:Good Morning, Midnight

Source: Good Morning, Midnight

“But every stroke of the brush, every lyric, every word whispered between human beings resulted from the pain of being alone. In our haunted heads, our imperfect bodies. Islands carved from clay and bone, our skulls like shells full of mist.”

Alone Shells Skulls Lyric Brush

Book:Cam Girl

Source: Cam Girl

“THE SILENT PEOPLE Some people are so rude, Living their lives with no concern for others, Or possibly just intent on pissing other people off- Annoying everyone around them. The silent people- Want to kill them- And drive forks into their skulls- Create weapons of extreme torture- And scream from the top of their lungs- "SHUT UP." But words are not spoken- And attention is not given. Though annoyance is apparent, The annoying keep on living.”

Poetry Attention Poem Living Torture Scream Annoying Shut Up Rude Kill Skulls Living Life To The Fullest Forks Rudeness Extreme Spoken

Book:Uninhibited From Lust To Love

Source: Uninhibited From Lust To Love

“I had tried to make it beautiful with a spray of golden and orange autumn leaves in an empty green wine bottle on the floor by the hearth, with a string of tiny mouse skulls and soft white dove feathers hanging above my bed, and a cluster of dried rose hips pinned behind the door.”

Beautiful Golden Autumn Feathers Skulls Mouse Shoal Hearth Wine Bottle

Book:Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

Source: Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology

“The grille of the Caddie plunged right into the middle of the bonfire, scattering smoke and flames and bones to the wind. The Cadillac finally bounced and jolted to a stop among a rain of burning human skulls. The voice of John Fogerty garbled and died. The driver's door opened and John flung himself out, clutching a sawed-off shotgun. He screamed, 'DID SOMEBODY ORDER SOME FUCKING PRISON BREAK WITH A SIDE OF SHOTGUN?”

Source: This Book Is Full of Spiders

“We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.”

Trying Mind Use Bones Muscles Bags Monkeys Statues Skulls Hormones

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.”

People Humans Hard Fall Practice Style Walking Mountain Appreciate Lifetime Manage Skulls Unstable

Author:Randall Munroe

“I just love animals, and I'm an advocate for animals rights, and my family has rescued dogs from all over the world. I don't believe in animal testing. If you see me in fur, it's always fake. Sometimes you see me wearing skulls, but those are all from roadkill”

Ifs World Believe Sometimes Animal Rights Dog My Family Don't Believe Fake Vegetarian Animal Rights Testing Skulls Fur Animal Love Animal Testing

Author:Kesha

“In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hourglass - all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.”

Source: The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant

“Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it.”

Men Universe Movement Equal Conception Infinity Skulls

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“As artists and professionals, it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture.”

Artist Culture Revolution Tyranny Obligation Consumers Internals Skulls Uprising Insurrection Consumer Culture

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Getting punched in the face with a padded glove doesn't really hurt your face. It doesn't hurt your skull. The only thing it hurts is your brain. You can feel the brain injury happening. It's an instant headache.”

Feels Faces Hurt Brain Happenings Instant Injury Your Face It Hurts Skulls Gloves Headache Brain Injury

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“Learn Languages the Right Way. Language acquisition games and abstract communicative method are bullshit. The second-best way to learn a foreign language is alone in a room doing skull-numbing rote memorization of vocabulary, grammar, key phrases, and colloquialisms. The best way is in bed.”

“Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.”

May Bones Skulls Burial Soho Skittles Skull And Bones Gravediggers

Book:Necropolis: London and Its Dead

Source: Necropolis: London and Its Dead

“England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain.”

“Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.”

“Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.”

Looks May Beautiful Faces Worst Look Up Melancholy Skulls Grinning Beautiful Face

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there.”

Men World Littles Natural Rooms Development Teeth Naked Thrown Freak Bubbles Covering Skulls Pudding

Author:William Golding

“During my senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can't say anything more.”

Years I Can Secret Bones Senior Say Anything Skulls Secret Society Senior Year Skull And Bones

Author:George W. Bush

“I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language. In that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians. To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.”

Ifs Mean Eye Speak Language Race Blood Stage Hair Speech Bones Sinner Again And Again Grammar Dictionary Skulls Linguists Scandinavians

Author:Max Muller

“Any man who can look handsome in a dirty baseball suit is an Adonis. There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man's best points.”

Men Looks Feet Arms Baseball Blue Suits Dirty Pants Handsome Caps Fitting Sleeves Skulls Collars Sticking Out Baggy Pants Micawber

Author:Edna Ferber

“All the lessons learned, unlearned; The young, who learned to read, now blind, Their eyes with an archaic film; The peasant relapses to a stumbling tune, Following the donkey's bray; These only remember to forget. But somewhere some word presses, On the high door of a skull and in some corner, Of an irrefrangible eye, Some old man memory jumps to a child - Spark from the days of energy. And the child hoards it like a bitter toy.”

“I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an empty skull... I wasn't thinking my own thoughts or saying my own thoughts.”

Thinking Literature My Own Talking Empty I Realized Ran Skulls Burroughs

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“Why is the human skull as dense as it is? Nowadays we can send a message around the world in one-seventh of a second, but it takes years to drive an idea through a quarter-inch of human skull.”

World Years Humans Ideas Messages Around The World Quarters Inches Skulls Dense

Author:Charles Kettering

“A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls.”

Humans Dark Walks Four Arms Clubs Belts Skulls Dark Skinned

Book:Glasshouse

Source: Glasshouse

“There's no denying that the way horror has been packaged in the past has done it no favours. Lurid black covers adorned with skulls, corpses crawling with insects and scantily clad maidens being chewed into by vampires -- all good clean fun, but it doesn't do much to give the genre an air of respectability or seriousness to the casual browser.”

Way Giving Has Beens Done Past Fun Black Air Horror Clean Vampire Genre Favour Insects Corpses Casual Seriousness Skulls Maidens Crawling Respectability Browsers

Author:Tim Lebbon

“Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.”

Writing War Beautiful Desire Language Hurt Compassion Horror Suicide Soldier Iraq Terror Trauma Delicate Bullets Precise Blades Skulls Shattered Iraq War Brian Bombers Turner Suicide Bombers

Author:Andrew Himes

“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

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

Rocks Tired Albums Bones Punk Skulls I'm Tired Punk Rock Skull And Bones

Author:Jello Biafra

“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

“Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, writers will go to stupefying lengths to get the infernal roar of words out of their skulls and onto paper.”

Paper Bird Fishes Length Swim Skulls

Book:Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

“Any mother with half a skull knows that when Daddy's little boy becomes Mommy's little boy, the kid is so wet he's treading water.”

Knows Littles Kids Mother Water Half Boys Wet Daddy Skulls Little Boys Treading Treading Water

Book:Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

“Operating superficially, the mind is random in its activity and stale in its insights and images. However, with practice and experience the mind is freed from the skull, and the fresh and new can appear as though for the first time. It”

Mind Firsts Time Practice Activity First Time Experience Insight Skulls Stale

Book:A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen

Source: A Zen Wave: Basho's Haiku and Zen

“Great books, like large skulls, have often the least brains.”

Book Brain Skulls Great Book

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion

“For me, 'The Crystal Skull' was something I'd never done before, and I loved every minute of it. Working with Harrison Ford as well - he's a cowboy from Montana, the most unassuming man you'll ever work with, fabulous guy, and I loved it.”

Men Wells Done Guy Minutes Cowboy Fabulous Crystals Skulls Montana Unassuming

Author:Ray Winstone

“I collect skulls; I think that a beautiful skull is a really good gift for a guy.”

Thinking Beautiful Guy Skulls

Author:Bella Heathcote

“I fell in love with my wife twenty years ago. I am only now, it seems, getting it through my very thick skull how lucky I am.”

Years Seems Wife Lucky Years Ago Twenties My Wife Thick Skulls

Author:Richard Schiff

“The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.”

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Author:Naomi Wolf

“Chain me with roaring bears; Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones, With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud; Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble; And I will do it without Fear or Doubt, To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love.”

Men Made House Doubt Wife Sweet Bears Bones Graves Chains Covered Yellow Fidelity Skulls Dead Man Sweet Love Roaring Shrouds Shank

Book:Romeo and Juliet

Source: Romeo and Juliet

“Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.”

Band Musical Elephants Cages Joining Skulls Caffeine

Author:Michael Koryta

“In Los Angeles, the jury in the Reginald Denny Beating trial, after much thinking, concludes, that Person A is not necessarily trying to kill Person B just because Person A happens to very deliberately bash Person B's skull in with a brick. The verdict is applauded by scientists at the Tobacco Institute.”

Thinking Trying Persons Happens Scientist Trials Los Angeles Bricks Jury Tobacco Skulls Institute Verdict Bash

Author:Dave Barry

“Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.”

Ifs World Long Pain Joy Suffering Games Mystery Waste Delight Cruelty Compass Brutes Skulls Bumps Canaries

Author:Annie Dillard

“In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the buckle of the strap that you may fall and crack your skull; one wrenches off your horse's shoes, another steals your whip, and the least treacherous of them all is the man whom you see coming to fire his pistol at you point blank.”

People Men May Certain Fall Fire Feet He Man Ready Horse Shoes Stealing Entrepreneurship Paris Cracks Blank Tails Coats Skulls Whips Pistols Treacherous Buckles Wrenches Stirrups

Book:The Atheist's Mass

Source: The Atheist's Mass

“Hell is out of fashion --institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. . .”

Hell Century Fashion Rate Affair Bars Gaps 20th Century Skulls Dungeons Inferno Buchenwald

Author:J. G. Ballard

“Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre.”

Looks Known Wind Hair Weight Miracle Golden Fairness Locks Skulls Wanton Dowry

Book:The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

Source: The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators

“No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale.”

Industry Flying Symbols Devices Entitled Thrones Royalty Skulls Retail Kindred Wholesale

Book:The American Claimant

Source: The American Claimant

“Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.”

Men Feels Soul Character Found Noble Skulls Spine Backbone

Book:Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition

Source: Moby Dick, Or The Whale: Volume 6, Scholarly Edition

“Home is my Bethlehem, my succoring shelter, my mental hospital, my wife, my dam, my husband, my sir, my womb, my skull.”

Home Wife Husband My Wife My Husband Hospitals Shelter Nurture Womb Skulls Dams Bethlehem

Book:Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

“Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether relatively to the larger size of his body, in comparison with that of woman, has not, I believe been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of the skull smaller; the outlines of her body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.”

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Author:Charles Darwin