Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
It’s your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.
If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.
I make no bones about the fact that I’m over 40.
I really like Benjamin from Sweden with ‘Dance You Off,’ and Equinox from Bulgaria with ‘Bones’ – and they were really great to interview at the London Eurovision Party.
I have no history but the length of my bones.
For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke up so I would know I wasn’t fat. It was like pinching myself so I’d know I wasn’t dreaming.
Evolution is unobservable. It’s based on blind faith in a few dry bones and on unreliable dating systems in which the gullible trust. Kids should be allowed to make up their own minds about this issue, and not be censored to ‘one side is all we will let you hear.’
It is personal – deep in my bones and my flesh – the knowledge that we squandered our chance to avoid the climate emergency; to act when it would have been so much easier, as we did to stop acid rain, to save the ozone layer.
We salvage the bones of our lives every day, through small tragedies and big tragedies.
For me, it was much more important to continue to learn my craft as an actor and get a bit of flesh on the bones.
I chose a specialty in plastic and reconstructive surgery because it’s very rewarding to watch someone with broken bones or bad scars return to normal.
The bones of the story of ‘War Horse’ is a love story. That’s what makes it universal.
Is there fear? No, there isn’t. Now, I’ve made mistakes. I’ve broken 56 bones in my body, and each one was a mistake. But when we do stunts, there’s just no room for fear.
It’s true to say that once I’ve got the bare bones of a story, I often get ideas from my own research trips to faraway places.
It seemed romantic but also tragic – people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.
I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.
My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.
When I sing, my face changes shape. It feels like my skull changes shape… the bones bend.
I broke people’s bones, tore muscles, ribs, faces, inflicted some serious and heavy damages to my opponents, etc… I got hurt myself, too, from serious attacks.
When I vacate this sack of old bones I won’t care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don’t make much fuss.
At one point I couldn’t move or get out of bed or anything. I developed blood clots because I’d been completely inactive. Then they thought – because the pain was so much – I had an infection in the bones, so they gave me pills, which gave me a tummy infection. It’s like a French farce.
Your bones are not just made of the last meal you had, but the meals that you’ve had across many years. By looking at the composition of those teeth, researchers can say that something was a large component of the diet. This tells us a lot about how hominins lived and what they ate.
I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family.
As a newcomer to politics, I knew in my bones that we as a country were better than what we see coming out of Washington. And we are.
Sometimes you even start to sound like the character because you’re living and breathing them every day on the set. It gets into your bones.
I got Osgood-Schlatter disease in my knees because my bones were growing quicker than my muscles, and it’s hard to get out on the training pitch; then, afterwards, you’re in agony every single time you play football.
If you’re Australian, you feel it in your bones because you’re at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.
It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.
You don’t just one day say, ‘That’s it, I’m doing this, I’m going to throw all my shoes out and I’m not eating honey and I won’t drive my car because there are animal bones in the tires…’ because you’d drive yourself around the bend.
I went to UC Davis because I wanted to be a vet. It’s a great profession if it’s right for you, but it’s memorizing the bones and the muscles, and I am terrible at stuff like that. Also, there’s a lot of blood and gore involved.
To get to play someone who was in some capacity the King of Harlem, that meant something to me. Deep within my bones. I was inspired by the energy that I knew to be a real thing.
While I’m playing baseball, I’m still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I’m sure I’ll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I’ll be thinking of music then.
Every film has its ups and downs. Each time it seems like pushing a boat over a mountain. I worked on ‘The Lovely Bones’ for five years before my involvement fell apart.
It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.
First time you step on these new legs, it’s bloody hard. It’s painful on your pelvic bones. But every day I get more of a feel for where my feet are.
We’re all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I’ll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It’s like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We’re trying to use a thing we don’t understand to understand ourselves.
Bigfoot does not exist because there would be evidence left behind – hair, feces, bones, kills, offspring, a carcass – if it did.
I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren’t ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that’s too bad.
Audiences know the form in their bones, they know that romantic comedies end in an uplifting way.
The whole soul is in the whole body, in the bones and in the veins and in the heart; it is no more present in one part than in another, and it is no less present in one part than in the whole, nor in the whole less than in one part.
Break as few bones as possible and make as much noise as you can.
Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
My nickname was Skinabo – ‘skin and bones.’
To me, the bones of ‘Smokin’ Aces’ is in the Coen brothers. ‘Barton Fink’ and ‘Raising Arizona.’ Those two movies, if you look at them, that’s where a lot of that comes from.
May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.
I have in my bones, and in my blood, the knowledge that you have to help the people who are persecuted.
Most drag queens, they put on music like it’s a costume. It’s not in their bones. It’s not in their background.
My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to the theory of the earth and why they have a particular importance in this respect.
My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to own land. But, I was worried about my history being caked with that southern clay, and I subscribed to a different kind of teaching and learning in my bones and in my spirit.
I’m a filmmaker to my bones.
The workouts have positively impacted the astronauts’ bones and muscles, and they are coming back in really good shape. But some are losing bone and muscle but not as much as we saw in the early days.
A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.
‘California Bones’ is the first volume in my trilogy about Daniel Blackland, a wizard trying to survive in a world that eats wizards. It’s a book about friends and family, trust and betrayal, the love of power and the power of love.
Anyone, they say, is entitled to change his mind. Not about the defence of Britain, you’re not. You either feel it in your heart, in your bones, in your gut, or you don’t.
Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.
You know how sometimes you hear a chord played on an organ and you can feel it vibrating in your bones? Sometimes when I’m writing, I can feel my bones vibrating because I’ll have a thought or I’ll have a character’s voice in my head, and that’s when I know I’m on the right track.
