Top 194 Skeleton Quotes & Sayings

I was fascinated by puppets as a kid and one I had when I was eight or nine, a skeleton, is now hanging in my office.

... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

Definitions get you into that time trap, and I'm very much more process-focused. Take Lucy, for example. Lucy is famous largely because she has almost a total skeleton. The more sophisticated we get with instruments, the more we can find out. Through CT scans of her skeleton, they now think she died falling out of a tree because of the way her bones are broken. If nineteenth and twentieth century technologies can retroactively transform our bodiment, what then do the technologies we now use do?

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

You don't know that you'll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet.

You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that's from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it'd be almost comical.

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

What actually happens when you die is that your brain stops working and your body rots, like Rabbit did when he died and we buried him in the earth at the bottom of the garden. And all his molecules were broken down into other molecules and they went into the earth and were eaten by worms and went into the plants and if we go and dig in the same place in 10 years there will be nothing exept his skeleton left. And in 1,000 years even his skeleton will be gone. But that is all right because he is a part of the flowers and the apple tree and the hawthorn bush now.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

The key to skeleton is to find the line, and I think I spend most of training figuring out where that sweet spot is.

Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them.

There is a skeleton in every house.

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

Occasionally a single anecdote opens a character; biography has its comparative anatomy, and a saying or a sentiment enables the skilful hand to construct the skeleton.

Now people don't know what it was in the Paris version, they put the skeleton at the end, not at the beginning. At least they've learn something!

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth's skeleton.

Every two months, I would get an email, 'Skeleton Twins update: still don't have the money!'

I began thinking about my skeleton, this solid, beautiful thing inside me that I would never see.

I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. It's like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry.

If you look at the skeleton, the start is very important.

You'd better put sunblock on that skeleton head of yours. You're gonna fry." -Bobby

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.

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.

These are things you should learn. Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you; your future is a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don’t wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is. Now, these skeletons are made of memories, dreams, and voices. And they can trap you in the in-between, between touching and becoming. But they’re not necessarily evil, unless you let them be.

I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've found the skeleton - that's what you trust - you reclothe.

Stand-up is very broad strokes, kind of a skeleton of a story or something.

My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.

Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.

I know a bit about vertebrate anatomy and I'd like to think that I'd spot if a skeleton was entirely fabricated or cobbled together from existing bits and pieces.

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

I loved the adrenalin rush of the skeleton, and would love to do it as a Paralympic sport if they ever bring it into the Games.

A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.

The cat which isn't let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard.

I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

I was a skeleton compared to what I used to be, but it didn't matter. Nothing really mattered except remaining unbroken.

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

It's not good for you to be barred from traveling to certain places in your head because some skeleton is in the closet.

It's important to go into the grocery store with a plan and a list. But it's a skeleton - you need to know how to deviate from it and adapt it to what ingredients are available and fresh.

I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. Its like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry.

None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.

I read round the subject, I make a skeleton outline, and then I start work in the relevant archives. During the marshaling of the material, I copy the material from each archive file across to the relevant chapter in the skeleton outline.

Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don't wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.

They remain dead, the people I try to resuscitate by straining to hear what they say. But the illusion is not pointless, or not quite, even if the reader knows all this better than I do. One thing a book tries to do, beneath the disguise of words and causes and clothes and grief, is show the skeleton and the skeleton dust to come. The author too, like those of whom he speaks, is dead.

My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.

I believe that as a writer and a director, you're only providing the skeleton of a character, and you're hiring actors to fill it out.

An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.

I've always found the script to be more of a skeleton, the template.

After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.

What irritates me are bands that pretend they've never heard of the Misfits or Danzig, but they've got the skeleton shirt.

A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

Yeah? Can you draw a skeleton riding a motorcycle with flames coming out of it? And I want a pirate hat on the skeleton. And a parrot on his shoulder. A skeleton parrot. Or maybe a ninja skeleton parrot? No, that would be overkill. But it'd be cool if the biker skeleton could be shooting some ninja throwing stars. That are on fire.

Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh.

Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame

I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.

'Skeleton Creek' is like nothing you've ever read before because it's a book and a movie at the same time.