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Skulls Quotes

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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.
Saint John Chrysostom

The trail to damnation is strewn with the remains of holy men, and the craniums of prelates are the beacons that illuminate the way.
Authors on Skulls Quotes: Jim Butcher George Orwell William Shakespeare Jonathan Safran Foer Allen Ginsberg Eoin Colfer J. G. Ballard Mark Twain Ambrose Bierce J. K. Rowling Markus Zusak E. M. Forster Arthur Conan Doyle Jeffrey Kluger Saint John Chrysostom Annie Dillard Sylvia Plath Anne Sexton William Golding Herman Melville Stephen King Matsuo Basho Algernon Charles Swinburne Jonathan Gottschall Bruce Sterling Richard Schiff Guy Murchie Douglas Coupland Tao Lin Francine Pascal Fletcher Knebel Jason Marsden Ellie Goulding
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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
Matsuo Basho

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The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.
Eric Berne

4.
Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?
Robert Breault

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My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambition.
Yann Martel

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Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.
James Frey

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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. A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.
J. G. Ballard

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

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Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!
Emily Bronte

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I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
Debbie Harry

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I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.
David Benioff

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We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.
George Orwell

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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.
Kazimir Malevich

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If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of optimal excitability were luminous, then we should see playing over the cerebral surface, a bright spot with fantastic, waving borders constantly fluctuating in size and form, surrounded by a darkness more or less deep, covering the rest of the hemisphere.
Ivan Pavlov

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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.
William Shakespeare

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The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.
Grant Morrison

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We ordinary people might lack your great speed or your X-Ray vision, Superman, but never underestimate the power of the human mind. We carry the most dangerous weapon on Earth inside these thick skulls of ours.
Mark Millar

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Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
Rod Serling

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We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.
Ekaterina Sedia

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Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.
Hafez al-Assad

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Hell is paved with infants skulls.
Richard Baxter

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Scarily, football helmets, which do a fine job of protecting against scalp laceration and skull fracture, do little to prevent concussions and may even exacerbate them, since even as the brain is rattling around inside the skull, the head is rattling around inside the helmet.
Jeffrey Kluger

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There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?
Danny DeVito

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It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.
Brian Aldiss

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When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Cynthia Ozick

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The skull is nature's sculpture.
David Bailey

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The head is what matters. The rest of the body plays the part of antennae making life possible for people and life itself is inside the skull.
Alberto Giacometti

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Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.
Noam Chomsky

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We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness without limits, transcending time, space, matter, and linear causality.
Stanislav Grof

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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.
Naomi Wolf

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Moreover he saw a skull floating on the surface of the water and he said unto it: Because you drowned others they drowned you; and those that drowned you will eventually be drowned.
Hillel the Elder

32.
You should have seen the look on your skull.
Rich Burlew

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Reality is inside the skull.
George Orwell

34.
I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull.
Robert T. Bakker

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Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.
Mary Baker Eddy

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The object of my researches is the brain. The cranium is only a faithful cast of the external surface of the brain, and is consequently but a minor part of the principal object.
Franz Joseph Gall

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Masks beneath masks until suddenly the bare bloodless skull.
Salman Rushdie

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I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry.
Jim Butcher

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I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.
P. D. James

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I had this fantasy of becoming a neurosurgeon. You know, the normal Jewish boy fantasy, but I wanted to be a neurosurgeon for some reason. So I started in this unpleasant way. I was an assistant to the coroner, opening up corpses, taking the innards out, opening skulls, taking the brains out.
Joseph Brodsky

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When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.
Mike Tyson

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It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.
Arthur Conan Doyle

43.
Generally speaking, I'm much more in favour of penises entering vaginas than axes entering skulls. But the world seems to accept the violence a lot easier than the sex.
George R. R. Martin

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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
Amy Lowell

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No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail of terror brushes the inside of your skull.
Anne Michaels

46.
We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.
Glenn Danzig

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Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.
Lauren DeStefano

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

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The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is composed of chemicals, enzymes, and humors which may be analyzed. Its structure is characterized by neurons, pathways, and synapses which may be examined directly when they are properly magnified.
Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado

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Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
Saint John Chrysostom