(285 quotes found)
“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
“The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it”
William Shakespeare
“But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was bare of water-lilies; but the sky was not bare of its beautiful blue, and the water reflected it, and a delicious wind ran with the stream, touching the surface crisply.”
Charles Dickens
“Now hast thou but one bare hour to live / And then thou must be damned perpetually! / Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,/ That time may cease and midnight never come.”
Christopher Marlowe
“Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.”
Jean Cocteau
“And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.”
Bible
“You should pay on things that you buy outside of bare necessities. I think this sales tax is the best tax we have had in years.”
Will Rogers
“On all nine of those occasions, the president fondled and kissed her bare breasts. He touched her genitals ... bringing her to orgasm on two occasions,”
Ken Starr
“It's very bare-bones in its text, and that's the way it's been since 1859. It's never been particularly wordy.”
Betty Koed
“It's not just going bare bones. It's cutting the bone.”
Barbara Bradley
