83 Quotes About Skeletons

  • Author Brian Eno
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    Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on - including your own incompetence.

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  • Author William Faulkner
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    A hack writer who would have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tried out a few of the old proven 'sure-fire' literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.

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  • Author Baltasar Gracián
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    No one demands more caution than a spy, and when someone has the skeleton key to minds, counter him by leaving the key of caution inside, on the other side of the keyhole.

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  • Author Drew Goddard
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    The more work you put in on your outline and getting the skeleton of your story right, the easier the process is later.

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  • Author Jane Goodall
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    Certainly the first true humans were unique by virtue of their large brains. It was because the human brain is so large when compared with that of a chimpanzee that paleontologists for years hunted for a half-ape, half-human skeleton that would provide a fossil link between the human and the ape.

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  • Author Mahatma Gandhi
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    Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India.

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  • Author Stephen Jay Gould
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    I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

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