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Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin. — Mahatma Gandhi

Everybody knows, she thought, that we have a skeleton underneath our skin; there's no reason to show it — Alexander McCall Smith

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! — John Hench

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

She turns her back to us, starting up the stairs slowly, her legs shaking with every step.
I think she forgot to put her skeleton in, says Margot. — Claire King

Was the isolated skeleton? — Kathy Reichs

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

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. — Heather Mills

Do not spend your life searching for a place to call home.Make the bones in your skeleton the only structure you need. — Haley Hendrick

If you look at a map of Europe you will observe that Greece is a skeleton-like hand stretching its crooked fingers out into the Mediterranean Sea. — Will Durant

holding the red flower before me. — Skeleton Steve

You'd better put sunblock on that skeleton head of yours. You're gonna fry. -Bobby — D.J. MacHale

Hit her with a hammer
teeth smashed in
red tongues twitching
look inside a skeleton — P.J. Harvey

I am a man. And I am former baby and a future skeleton, and I am a distant future pile of dust. — Demetri Martin

But an ink brush, she thinks, is a skeleton key for a prisoner's mind. — David Mitchell

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

The toxin generates the anti-toxin. The end lies concealed in the beginning. All bodies grow around a skeleton. Life is a petticoat about death. — James Stephens

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

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

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

If grammar is the skeleton of expression and usage the flesh and blood, then style is the personality. — Arthur Plotnik

How's a skeleton crew supposed to save Chase from the giants who annihilated our parents?"
"I believe your people call it "girl power. — Brian K. Vaughan

Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves. — Lemony Snicket

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

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

The termites of reduction have always gnawed away at life: even the greatest love ends up as a skeleton of feeble memories. — Milan Kundera

Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin. — Paul Klee

Lucy constituted only 28 per cent of a half skeleton (and only about 20 per cent of a full one). — Bill Bryson

Yes, she is practically a walking skeleton with uncombed orange hair. — Lisa Dekis

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

I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the outside. — Marlene Zuk

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

Do you know where most skeletons come from?"
"When a mommy skeleton loves a daddy skeleton very much... — Leigh Perry

You could see the skeleton behind the man, and almost the ghost behind the skeleton. — Thomas Hardy

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. — Christopher McQuarrie

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

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Tinker Bell exquisitely gowned in a skeleton leaf, cut low and square, through which her figure could be seen to the best advantage. — J.M. Barrie

All four of them looked at Diane as if she had said Kendel had just returned from her trip and had brought them a unicorn skeleton. — Beverly Connor

A skeleton, even a walking one, is at least human; Death of a sort lurks inside every living creature. — Terry Pratchett

Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. — Stephen King

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness
when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton. — Josh Billings

I am digging the grave of love , skeleton not found till now , Just the rotten smell . R v sure it exists ? — Tushar Upreti

Sleep is cousin-german unto death: Sleep and death differ, no more, than a carcass And a skeleton. — Thomas Traherne

Wouldn't this be tantamount to giving a butterfly a skeleton? — Haruki Murakami

When those who found this skeleton attempted to disengage it from that which it held in its grasp, it crumbled to dust. — Victor Hugo

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

Music, like a human being, has a soul, a heart, a mind, and a skeleton. — David Ewen

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

Me and Death have an agreement, asshole," I said. "He doesn't mess with me, and I don't tear his skeleton nuts off. — Seanan McGuire

You will never be skeleton, when I am in ghost. — Anthony Liccione

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

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame — Virginia Woolf

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

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

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

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

brought bone after bone to a skeleton expert until she told me that I was making her so miserable that I should never return, — Lemony Snicket

It took something massive to shatter a Mimic endo-skeleton in one hit. That it could kill me in the process was beside the point. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

When I'm fighting, my rival becomes like a skeleton to me, without any flesh on him. — Waheed Ibne Musa

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

The dead have come to take the living. The dead in winding-sheets, the regimented dead on horseback, the skeleton that plays the hurdy-gurdy. — Don DeLillo

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

There is a skeleton in every house. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

The war has put its skeleton fingers even into our pockets. (pg:40) — Virginia Woolf

A fish is a sock for a fish skeleton. — Benjamin Franklin

There are enough bones in the human body to form a skeleton. — Jeff

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

There is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live. — Frida Kahlo

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

The skeleton warrior's right foot and hand were slowly dissolving from poison. His head was on fire, but otherwise he looked pretty good. — Rick Riordan

False. 25% of dungeons are skeleton dungeons. — Steve Minecraft

The skeleton of success is self-discipline — Sunday Adelaja

Malefic baneberry. It doesn't taste good, but one teaspoon and a skeleton would dance a jig. He — Richard Kadrey

I am as you say a "skeleton" and i have been for quite a while — SkullDuggery Pleasant

The bones of the skeleton which support the body can become the bars of the cage which imprison the spirit. — J. Ruth Gendler

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

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

For Aaron, looking like a skeleton was very much for life, not just for Halloween — Kestral M. Gaian

I was a skeleton with flesh and clothes and thoughts. — Barbara Kingsolver

The skeleton is just a way to keep your tissue off the floor. — Chuck Palahniuk

Man, talk about having a skeleton in the closet - this — Wendelin Van Draanen

But somewhere, there is a skeleton. And that skeleton has a penis. And it will fuck your life. — Neil Strauss

His hair fell out, his face went gaunt as a skeleton. — Mitch Albom

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

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

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. — Ozzy Osbourne

I saw a man whose suffering had become a kind of skeleton holding him upright. — Eli Brown

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

The dreams are the skeleton of all reality. — James Salter

shoulders of a skeleton, and the five people — Derek Landy

Leafless trees stand atop slag heaps like skeleton hands shoved up from the underworld. — Anthony Doerr

I like a woman who will laugh when you don't have to point her right at the joke, you know — Stephen King

I awoke at dawn, thrown up on a rock, the skeleton of a ship choked in its own sails. — Anais Nin

The screaming skeleton stopped screaming when I gave him an old teddy bear, although I'm not certain why that worked, — Terry Pratchett

Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not — Richard Adams

I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a dinosaur skeleton and stuff like that. — Nathan Sawaya

Valkyrie, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your friend is most likely dead."
"Of course he's dead. He's a skeleton. — Derek Landy

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. — G.K. Chesterton