(39 quotes found)
“When something does not insist on being noticed, when we aren't grabbed by the collar or struck on the skull by a presence or an event, we take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude”
Cynthia Ozick
“There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go?”
Danny DeVito
“And he bearing his cross went forth into a place called the place of a skull, which is called in the Hebrew Golgotha: / Where they crucified him, and two other with him, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.”
Bible
“Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.”
Amy Lowell
“The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.”
Herman Melville
“With various readings stored his empty skull, / Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.”
Charles Churchill
“Religion is a process of turning your skull into a tabernacle, not of going up to Jerusalem once a year”
Austin O'Malley
“The bullet never penetrated his skull,”
Jay Kay
“ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. --Romach Pute”
Ambrose Bierce
“The other guy's skull came apart, ... There was shanking and all that kind of stuff going on. You weren't allowed to have [chicken] drumsticks because they just turned the bone into a shank.”
Dominic Purcell