Top Skeleton Quotes

Don't look shy if you wear rag and people gag, many are in the grave wearing skeleton, and you should even be happier for wearing a skin without clothes.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Michael Douglas

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The meaning of skeleton

(n.) The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

(n.) The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.

(n.) A very thin or lean person.

(n.) The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.

(n.) The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.

(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.

Love caught me with my pants down, watering skeleton flowers and humming the blues.

R.X. Bird

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

Virginia Woolf

If I am to be a skeleton in a box buried deep into the ground, I pray you will be the dust that rests atop my bones.

John Hennessy

I sometimes think about old tombs and weedsThat interwreathe among the bones of kingsWith cold and poisonous berry and black flower:Or ruminate upon the skulls of steedsFrailer than shells and on thos…

Mervyn Peake

I clearly saw the skeleton underneathall this show of personalitywhat is left of a manand all his pride but bones?

Jack Kerouac

Chattering finch and water-flyAre not merrier than I;Here among the flowers I lieLaughing everlastingly.No: I may not tell the best;Surely, friends, I might have guessed

G.K. Chesterton

I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough for me to hear over the din, 'Last time, I imagined myself as the kid. This time, th…

John Green

How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they are the majority. ... We have here a problem that i…

Henri Poincare

It’s hard to tell sometimes if Etheny’s stories are true, as you will see, so I will lay down the story as she told it to me to allow you to decide for yourself.

E L Parfitt

The skeleton picked up the second skull, so worn as to barely be recognisable as such. The vertebrae fell and rolled like beads from a string.

J.A. Clement

Nice" said Paul staring transfixed at Fran's delicate and extreme gaze, like that of a skeleton with eyeballs, or a person with their face peeled off.

Tao Lin

Outside, the sleet had gotten thicker. You could hear it pebbling against the large glass windows, you could see it swirling wildly through the spotlights of street lamps. It was the kind of night whe…

Dan Chaon

You look angry," he said."You put me on hold.""For a very good reason.""You put me," she said very, very slowly, "on hold.

Derek Landy

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 ti…

Sherman Alexie