Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

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

Alan Moore

It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

Edith Head

Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'

David Vitter

I have no skeletons in my closet.

Catherynne M. Valente

Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are about surviving, and what you look like when you emerge from the trial. The reason we keep telling fairy tales over and over, that we need to keep telling them, is that the trials change. So the stories change too, and the heroines and villains and magical objects, to keep them true. Fairy tales are the closets where the world keeps its skeletons.

Benjamin Franklin

A fish is a sock for a fish skeleton.

David Sedaris

Its funny how certain objects convey a message -- my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever I pass them they remind me that I'm doing fairly well. "No more laundromat for you," they hum. My stove, a downer, tells me every day that I can't cook, and before I can defend myself my scale jumps in, shouting from the bathroom, "Well, he must be doing something. My numbers are off the charts." The skeleton has a much more limited vocabulary and says only one thing: "You are going to die.

David Cross

The best thing about me is there are no skeletons.

Arthur Koestler

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

Charles Barkley

I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.

Baltasar Gracian

No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the key of caution inside, on the other side of the keyhole.

Brian Eno

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

Bruce Feiler

The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.

Stephen Jay Gould

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

Drew Goddard

The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

D. J. MacHale

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

Ambrose Bierce

Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.

Thornton Wilder

Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water.

Rick Riordan

But who are you?" Percy—" I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. "Gotta go!" What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?

Ray Bradbury

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.

Laini Taylor

Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some new skeleton -- was emerging from beneath the softness of her accustomed self. With a deep, visceral ache, she wished her true form might prove to be a sleek and shining one, like a stiletto blade slicing free of an ungainly sheath. Like a bird of prey losing its hatchling fluff to hunt in cold, magnificent skies. That she might become something glittering, something startling, something dangerous.

Henry Miller

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

Christian Louboutin

Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet. I compare it to having a good bone structure. Make-up will make you look good, but it helps if you have a good skeleton to begin with.

Isaac Marion

Once again the absurdity of my inner thoughts overwhelms me, and I want to crawl out of my skin, escape my ugly, awkward flesh and be a skeleton, naked and anonymous.

Ozzy Osbourne

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.

Marya Hornbacher

We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.

Naomi Watts

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it

Kirby Puckett

Everything has been written. Everybody knows everything about me. There are no secrets. Except the skeletons in my closet.

Katarina Witt

He doesn't have any skeletons in his closet. He was young and naive.

Adrian Rogers

The day of judgment will be a day when the skeletons come out of the closets! And each of us will be standing there to face the record.

Mahatma Gandhi

Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

Orlando Bloom

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

John Hawkes

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet!