Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.

Alan Moore

It's early days. A few skeletons are bound to keep jumping out of the closet.

David Sedaris

Its funny how certain objects convey a message -- my washer and dryer, for example. They can't speak, of course, but whenever I pass them they remind me that I'm doing fairly well. "No more laundromat for you," they hum. My stove, a downer, tells me every day that I can't cook, and before I can defend myself my scale jumps in, shouting from the bathroom, "Well, he must be doing something. My numbers are off the charts." The skeleton has a much more limited vocabulary and says only one thing: "You are going to die.

David Cross

The best thing about me is there are no skeletons.

Catherynne M. Valente

Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are about surviving, and what you look like when you emerge from the trial. The reason we keep telling fairy tales over and over, that we need to keep telling them, is that the trials change. So the stories change too, and the heroines and villains and magical objects, to keep them true. Fairy tales are the closets where the world keeps its skeletons.

Edith Head

Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'

David Vitter

I have no skeletons in my closet.

Benjamin Franklin

A fish is a sock for a fish skeleton.

Baltasar Gracian

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.

Dave Barry

Stache’s attack was perfectly timed, thanks to his veteran-pirate grasp tactics—and a big piece if luck.

Bill Nighy

I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.

Daniel H. Wilson

Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.

Abigail Breslin

I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

Clive James

Sometimes I feel if I was young again, I would wrap a bandana around my head like Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and I would become a pirate of the Web. And I would go around stealing poems and assembling into one spot like a treasure cave.

Anthony Michael Hall

I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.

James M. Barrie

One could mention many lovable traits in Smee. For instance, after killing, it was his spectacles he wiped instead of his weapon.

Jose Padilha

It's easy to make a pirate copy when you have digital tapes of things. And it was so complicated and complex to go through all the post-production of a movie without ever going digital.

Kathy Reichs

As a pirate, she once undressed a fencing instructor using only her sword!

Don DeLillo

He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

William Shakespeare

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank.Here will we sit, and let the sounds of musicCreep in our ears; soft stillness, and the nightBecome the touches of sweet harmony.