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Quotes About Bone

I love every bone in their heads.
~ Eugene O'Neill
I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they're working themselves to the bone. People are more likely to feel adrift and unsatisfied when they have too much leisure time. Obstacles are good.
~ Jeff Carlson
Is your puppy over on their mat, chewing a bone? Stand up — quick! Race over and reward them for doing just that.
~ Sarah Hodgson
By this stage, your puppy has bladder control. Urge them to stay in their crate 15 to 30 minutes longer each morning by waking them up with a bone or food-stuffed hollow toy, until they're content sleeping in until your ideal target time.
~ Sarah Hodgson
Asking why the creature had chosen to give me its bone was pointless. My foolish and unwilling foray into necromancy had made me attractive to such things, as a magnetic is attractive to iron.
~ Sarah Monette
Research has found that loss of bone density may be an even better predictor of death from atherosclerotic disease than cholesterol levels.
~ Atul Gawande
Being mortal is about the struggle to cope with the constraints of our biology, with the limits set by genes and cells and flesh and bone.
~ Atul Gawande
One shard of brilliant summer pierced me and remains. By this only unregenerate bone I am not dead, but waiting.
~ Audre Lorde
He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.
~ Stephen King
A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.
~ Stephen King
Like a flame burning away the darknessLife is flesh on bone convulsing above the ground.
~ E. Elias Merhige
She took out the last of the books, then nearly dropped the canvas bag in fright. At the bottom, neatly wrapped in a red handkerchief, she could just make out the bone grip of a Colt .45 pistol.
~ Jojo Moyes
Typically, housewives and working mums hate each other like dogs fighting for a bone.
~ Katie Hopkins
As on Earth, weight-bearing exercise is the best way to hang on to your bone. In zero gravity, of course, you have to create your weight.
~ Mary Roach
He told me that a German doctor named Wolff figured it out in the 1800s by studying X-rays of infants' hips as they transitioned from crawling to walking. "A whole new evolution of bone structure takes place to support the mechanical loads associated with walking," said Lang. "Wolff had the great insight that form follows function." Alas, Wolff did not have the great insight that cancer follows gratuitous X-raying with primitive nineteenth-century X-ray machines.
~ Mary Roach
And I thought to myself: This is what Creation looked like. The same stillness, the same crunching of bone.
~ Barack Obama
Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to the bone by the bronze-eyed possibility of lives that are not our own.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
You have the Destiny Blade and Bone Cutter, in addition to the talents inherited from your mother. Alice wields powerful magic, and I am Grimalkin.
~ Joseph Delaney
Critics I love every bone in their heads.
~ Eugene O'Neill
There is only one thing to know. The manat is *you.* A little skin and bone to keep the sea out—but you are its weight, its balance. You and I.
~ Betsy James
I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
~ Damien Chazelle
When I was a child I was told that whoever swallowed a hock-bone would one day own land, she said. Have you tried that? I was told a sheep's hock-bone bought a croft, a cow's an estate.
~ Halldor Laxness
He had the bone-weary look of a survivor who wasn't so sure the dead weren't the lucky ones. He rambled back over toward Myron and unlocked the handcuffs. "Go," he said. Myron
~ Harlan Coben
There are certain topics that I've come back to time and again throughout my career. On 'To the Bone,' there are certain subjects I have touched on before.
~ Steven Wilson