Skeleton King Quotes

#1. You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think
I did
that God put you on earth to blow your father away.

Stephen King

#2. In a lot of work places, you work at a lot of jobs and people work more with their colleagues than with their family.

Russell Hornsby

#3. What, no balloons?' Billi asked drily.
'You want balloons, join the circus.

Sarwat Chadda

#4. People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

Stedman Graham

#5. The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

Neale Donald Walsch

#6. To be able to see one's own faults; this is known as Enlightened vision (Samkit; Self-realization; right belief).

Dada Bhagwan

#7. I believe instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. Unless you're willing to take the pipe or eat the gun or take a long walk off a short dock, you can't say no to some things. You can't refuse to pick up your option because there is no option.

Stephen King

#8. A good person is the bad person's teacher. A bad person is the good person's task.

Laozi

#9. What is the nature of true morality? I have argued ... that it must be a kind of ethics involving letting go of one's own interest on behalf of others, being ready if necessary to sacrifice one's own interests for them, even on behalf of an enemy.

George F. R. Ellis

#10. What I didn't realize was how many doors the act of writing unlocks, as if my Dad's old fountain pen wasn't really a pen at all, but some strange variety of skeleton key.

Stephen King

#11. 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

#12. I like a woman who will laugh when you don't have to point her right at the joke, you know

Stephen King

#13. Instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.

Stephen King

#14. Do I need fifty finger-painted pictures by my toddler, or is one enough to capture this time of life? Mementos work best when they're carefully chosen - and when they don't take up much room!

Gretchen Rubin

#15. The Skeleton
Chattering finch and water-fly
Are not merrier than I;
Here among the flowers I lie
Laughing everlastingly.
No: I may not tell the best;
Surely, friends, I might have guessed
Death was but the good King's jest,
It was hid so carefully.

G.K. Chesterton