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Quotes About Mummified

Seconds passed, then ... La Dorada skulked into view. She was half-mummified, but sodden. Gooey. Regin let out a low whistle. The Mummy Returns meets Dingoes Ate My Face .-- --La Dorada swung her head around, peering at Regin with her one eye. Okay. That's freaky. Lookit, Gollum, if you spring me, I'll help you find your precious.
~ Kresley Cole
La Dorada skulked into view. She was half-mummified, but sodden. Gooey. Regin let out a low whistle. "The Mummy Returns meets Dingoes Ate My Face.
~ Kresley Cole
Spartacus," I called, "how's it hanging?" Probably not too well. Once you're dead, had your organs removed, and are resurrected as an undead mummified cat, your testicles probably looked like old raisins that had rolled under the couch. Raisins didn't tend to...hang.
~ Rob Thurman
You believe in aliens?" "I'm dating a dryad, and you pulled a snake out of your phone. You're going to draw the line at aliens?" "If you try to tell me aliens built the pyramids, I am so out of here." "Don't be ridiculous." I waited a beat, then added, "The pyramids were built by mummified elves.
~ Jim C. Hines
Priests believed cats to be holy animals, which were mummified in their death and presented to Bastet as offering.
~ Roy Jackson
Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake" hate.
~ John Green
What's for dinner?" "Roast beef. I heard it was a woman's body buried on Hamilton Ranch and that her body had been mummified." "Roast beef and mummified should never be used in the same sentence," he joked as he headed toward the refrigerator for a beer.
~ B.J. Daniels
In 2006, Michigan woman Lynn Sterling tried to sell a mummified human skeleton on eBay. eBay removed the posting because it violated their policy against selling human remains.
~ Scott Matthews
Even gods decay. Like, in 1890 somebody sold off thousands of mummified Ancient Egyptian sacred cats - _for fertilizer_. Get the point? Constancy isn't.
~ Jonathan Gash
Never touch a mummified body part if you don't know where it's been. That's my motto." [- Lockwood] "Holds true with unmummified ones too," George said. "That's the motto I live by.
~ Jonathan Stroud
Never touch a mummified body part if you don't know where it's been. That's my motto.
~ Jonathan Stroud
I'm sure the makers of Downy would be pleased to know that their product makes even mummified human skin soft and fragrant.
~ Bill Bass
The cases were of a strange golden wood, with fronts of exquisite glass, and containing the mummified forms of creatures outreaching in grotesqueness the most chaotic dreams of man.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Big Cyndi crossed the room with an agility that belied the bulk. She wrapped me in an embrace that made me feel as if I'd been mummified in wet attic insulation. In a good way. "Oh, Mr. Bolitar!" She started sniffling, a sound that brought images of moose mating on the Discovery Channel.
~ Harlan Coben
The mummied dead everywhere. The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut as wires. Shriveled and drawn like latterday bogfolk, their faces of boiled sheeting, the yellowed palings of their teeth. They were discalced to a man like pilgrims of some common order for all their shoes were long since stolen.
~ Cormac McCarthy
She sat in her chair and looked around the room. What should she take with her? The antique chatrang board her predecessor had given her? Her mummified baby alligator, which she had on the theory that every sorcerer's lair should have a mummified reptile of some kind?
~ Tim Pratt
These days I am obsessed by sculpture! I believe I have glimpsed a complete renovation of that mummified art.
~ Umberto Boccioni