Skeletons Quotes
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
ingmar bergman— The New York Times (22 January 1978)
...I'm not able to fear death... We will all turn skeletons and everything shall end. The skeleton becomes, therefore, the most radical form of nudity.
josé saramago— ÉPOCA Interview (in Portuguese), São Paulo, 2005.
If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I've completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he's insane!
eminem— "Insane". (Relapse (2009))
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life .
Arthur Koestler— The Ghost in the Machine (1967, 1976).
They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
imelda marcos— Statement made upon opening the Marikina City Footwear Museum in Manila, as quoted in "Homage to Imelda's shoes" at BBC News (16 February 2001)
A hack writer who would not have been considered a fourth rate in Europe , who tricked out a few of the old proven "sure-fire" literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy .
— William Faulkner, in M. Thomas Inge Conversations with William Faulkner, Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1999, p.79
For some reason people who spend 40 years learning everything they can about, say, the Peloponnesian War – and indeed, advancing the body of human knowledge – get all pissy when their contributions are edited away by Randy in Boise who heard somewhere that sword-wielding skeletons were involved. And they get downright irate when asked politely to engage in discourse with Randy until the sword-skeleton theory can be incorporated into the article without passing judgment.
— Lore Sjöberg, "The Wikipedia FAQK", Wired, 19 April 2006
