Human Skeleton Quotes

#1. The Golden Number is a mathematical definition of a proportional function which all of nature obeys, whether it be a mollusk shell, the leaves of plants, the proportions of the animal body, the human skeleton, or the ages of growth in man.

R. A. Schwaller De Lubicz

#2. Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

Jane Goodall

#3. A tiger doesn't proclaim its tigerness; it jumps on its prey

Wole Soyinka

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

Terry Pratchett

#5. ...terrorism could not win once the real terror went.

China Mieville

#6. It is the fashion these days to make war, and presumably it will last a while yet.

Frederick The Great

#7. How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.

Coco Rocha

#8. Music, like a human being, has a soul, a heart, a mind, and a skeleton.

David Ewen

#9. There are enough bones in the human body to form a skeleton.

Jeff

#10. Mais c'est renfantillage - this is childishness!' we heard de Grandin pant as we closed in and sought a chance to seize his skeleton-like antagonist. 'He who fights an imp of Satan as if he were human is a fool!'
("The Man In Crescent Terrace")

Seabury Quinn

#11. It's not what you do, but how much love you put into it that matters.

Rick Warren

#12. Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton.

Donald Johanson

#13. I took her in the standard jive hold that I had practised on the skeleton, and immediately felt the awkwardness, approaching revulsion, that I feel when forced into intimate contact with another human.

Graeme Simsion

#14. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, I hear them all at once. What a delight this is! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing, lively dream.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

Virginia Woolf

#16. Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.

Willa Cather

#17. When a country is at war or in economic depression, underdevelopment or tightened security, it sets an affective tone or mood, which seeps through into everyday life via all kinds of channels.

Kode9

#18. Adverse fortune is more beneficial than good fortune; the latter only makes men greedy for more, but adversity makes them strong.

Jonathan Haidt

#19. A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Aldous Huxley

#20. When looking at her I imagine my childhood and I live it all over again. Having children is getting to live two lives.

Christie Watson

#21. The Nazis take the skeleton in the closet of centuries and rattle it boastfully. Force, they declare, will always be necessary, since it is in the nature of human life (which is true, if one accepts their concept of human life).

Leonard Peikoff

#22. How things appear is only the thin, papery outer skin of the onion. Of course, when you cut open the onion, your eyes will sting and water, and then you can't see at all. You're lucky if you don't slice your finger.

Elizabeth Cunningham