Quotes About Bare Bones

#1. The blues is deceptively simple. Verse and chorus. Sometimes not even a chorus. Four bars that repeat, no Auto-Tune, electricity optional. It is the most direct, bare-bones of content. There is no interference between the head and heart.

Shawn Amos

#2. She felt a lot like a tree in autumn: all her hopes and dreams, desires and comforts, drying up and falling away one by one until all that remained was the bare bones of her soul. She wasn't sure how much she liked her bare-bones self.

Annette Marie

#3. The oldest profession [prostitution] is the most honest, for it exposes the bare bones of what civilization is all about. It's the root of all professions.

Daniel Suelo

#4. It's true to say that once I've got the bare bones of a story, I often get ideas from my own research trips to faraway places.

Michelle Paver

#5. Speaker Pelosi says unemployment benefits are economic stimulus. Those are bare-bones benefits.

Alan Nunnelee

#6. I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.

Libba Bray

#7. It sounded stupid, but of course everything does when you're just getting the bare bones facts, only the basics ...

Sarah Dessen

#8. My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that.

Bruce Springsteen

#9. There's a lot of feeling that the school curriculum has been bare-bones, just drill and, again, no art, music, and so on and so forth

John Merrow

#10. People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

Greg Iles

#11. Folk is bare bones music.

Ben Harper

#12. Up high, biology vanishes to reveal a world shaped by the starker forces of geology and meteorology, the bare bones of the earth wrapped in sky.

Rebecca Solnit

#13. Ir's just that nowadays people are so quick to boil you down to the bare bones of info and upload you into a system, you know? And I think no one can ever really know another person unless you really pay attention ... I don't want to just see someone's face; I want to know his shadow, too.

Alexandra Bracken

#14. In choosing a bare bones existence, we are enriched, and can redefine success as an internal process rather than an outward display of wealth and power.

Kathleen Norris

#15. Now I have other demands on my time that are not flexible, I just can't wander into the studio at 2 A.M. like I used to. If I have an idea in the middle of the night, I will go and get the bare bones down, but mostly you can learn to tame it to your needs.

Jamie Cullum

#16. Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.

William S. Burroughs

#17. In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves

Susanna Kaysen

#18. When I write for teens, I feel I can cut through everything and get to the bare bones. I can get straight into the emotional world of the character.

Alice Hoffman

#19. I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath.

Wilkie Collins

#20. To the engineer falls the job of clothing the bare bones of science with life, comfort, and hope.

Herbert Hoover

#21. The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

#22. Scripts [are] kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

Karen Allen

#23. I hope for peace and sanity - it's the same thing.

Studs Terkel

#24. Nice to meet you, mate, and here's some advice: Don't even think about it. You try anything with her and I'll neuter you with my bare hands.

Jeaniene Frost

#25. Very romantic," said Lillian, her voice now like the sound of snapping dry bones in her bare hands. "A middle-aged Romeo, and a Juliet who wants a divorce.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#26. He had one of those faces where you were aware of the bones beneath the skin, as if even his bare skull would be attractive.

David Nicholls

#27. Outside, the bare trees surrounding the parking lot rattled like a thousand dry bones.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#28. The brutalities of a fight with bare hands, the crushed nasal bones, maimed lips, and other disfigurements, which call for the utter abolition of boxing in the interests of humanity, at once disappear when the contestants cover their hands with large, soft-leather gloves.

John Boyle O'Reilly

#29. Life's bare as a bone.

Virginia Woolf

#30. Many cultures believe that on a certain day - Halloween, the Irish Samhain Eve, Mexico's 'Dia de los Muertos' - the veil between this world and the next is especially thin.

Michael Dirda

#31. We are not perfect human beings, nor do we have to pretend to be, but it is necessary for us to be the best version of ourselves we can be.

Satsuki Shibuya

#32. Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it has first looked after others. And help me to realize that anything less is not a heart.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#33. Developing the power within, to have the confidence to take charge in the most difficult and dangerous of situations, is the hallmark of a true professional.

Subroto Bagchi

#34. It wasn't hard to take a liberal stand on race so long as it was seen as a Southern problem, and the Republicans didn't have any white Southerners to placate.

Rick Perlstein

#35. That crack in your broken heart is actually the place from where love enters inside you.

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

#36. This is how you unraveled me. Thread by thread. Until I was bare, Wearing nothing but my skin And my bones And my blood.

Autumn Doughton