Cranium Quotes

#1. Unless a film of flesh envelops us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would take some practice.

Lombard Philip Lombard

#3. My Wish
is to fall
cranium over Converse
in dizzy daydream-worthy
love.

Sarah Tregay

#4. 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

#5. She wants to jig and amble, she wants to lisp, she wants to suck the last slurp of essence out of his almost-voided cranium. Avaunt, wanton!

Margaret Atwood

#6. You could almost see the idea elbowing its way around the inside of his mind, like Athena in the cranium of Zeus.

Michael Chabon

#7. Look for all the world like you're counting the brain cells in his cranium.

Theodore Annemann

#8. Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.

Johann Most

#9. Only a few pages into "The Technologists" and Matthew Pearl already has written a gem about Boston:
"Then would come the view of the stretches of docks and piers ... then beyond that the State House's gold dome capping the horizon - the glittering cranium of the world's smartest city.

Matthew Pearl

#10. You are not apprehensive, are you? I can't detect no trace of fear none whatsoever
Roomy cranium all possible videos of all possible outcomes of current situation and envisage.

Terry Pratchett

#11. THE ZERO SUM GAME: I have found that people whose hair is teased do not like brainteasers. By the same token, people who like brainteasers do not have teased hair. It's clear that the human cranium cannot sustain both.

Demetri Martin

#12. 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.

Charles Lyell

#13. Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed.

Michael Douglas

#14. Sometime bravery involves giving up everything you have ever known ... but sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it is nothing more than gritting you're teeth through the pain, the slow walk towards a better life.

Veronica Roth

#15. Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

Katy Perry

#16. Why didn't you tell me i was in love with you?

Fred Astaire

#17. I have been very lucky to find something I am good at and can make money at ... Playing with Bruce was the embodiment of everything that a little kid could dream about.

Max Weinberg

#18. My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.

Valerie Jarrett

#19. I shall write an ode!" threatened Philip direfully.
"Ah no, that is too much!" cried De Vangrisse with feeling.

Georgette Heyer

#20. People ask me 'what was going through your mind in the race?' and I don't know. I try and ... let my body do what it knows

Ian Thorpe

#21. The disciple of Jesus is not the deluxe or heavy-duty model of the Christian-especially padded, textured, streamlined, and empowered for the fast lane on the straight and narrow way. He stands on the pages of the New Testament as the first level of basic transportation in the kingdom of God.

Dallas Willard

#22. The socially pernicious, racially wasteful, and soul-withering consequences of the working of mothers outside the home must cease. And this can only come to pass, either through the programme of institutional upbringing, or through the intimate renaissance of the home.

Ellen Key

#23. Houston, Apollo 11 ... I've got the world in my window.

NASA

#24. I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.

Ken Burns