Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

In childhood our credulity serves us well. It helps us to pack, with extraordinary rapidity, our skulls full of the wisdom of our parents and our ancestors. But if we don't grow out of it in the fullness of time, our ... nature makes us a sitting target for astrologers, mediums, gurus, evangelists, and quacks. We need to replace the automatic credulity of childhood with the constructive skepticism of adult science.

William Golding

The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers but won't tell.

George Foreman

That gal's all skull and no brains. She's like Joe Frazier with lipstick.

Mark Millar

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.

Charles Lyell

When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.

Barbara Kingsolver

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.

Donna Tartt

If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do.

Christopher Moore

An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.

David Bailey

The skull is nature's sculpture.

Julie Mitchell

I don't do sculpture in the traditional sense,

William Shatner

You have to create your life. You have to carve it, like a sculpture.

Rudolf Steiner

When sculpting the human figure in stone it is necessary to draw the whole form out of the content of the head.

William C. Bryant

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

Yayoi Kusama

The thought of continually eating something like macaroni, spat out by machinery, fills me with fear and revulsion, so I make macaroni sculptures. I make them and make them and then keep on making them, until I bury myself in the process. I call this 'obliteration.'

Louise Bourgeois

For me, sculpture is the body. My body is my sculpture.

Marsha Norman

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture.

Constantin Brancusi

Why talk about sculpture when I can photograph it?