Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"I broke into shakespeare's tomb and stole his remains, grinded the bones, smoked it, then got in the game"
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Bones
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Jessamyn West
Author
"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."
William Butler Yeats
Poet, Playwright
"And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone."
D. H. Lawrence
Novelist, Poet
"Oh literature, oh the glorious Art, how it preys upon the marrow in our bones. It scoops the stuffing out of us, and chucks us aside. Alas!"
Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"A man strikes you, make him bleed. He makes you bleed, you break his bones. He breaks your bones, kill him. Being hit is inevitable, strike back twice as hard."
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"A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones - we had better know something about their nature and their power."
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"Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own."
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"We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone."
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"I'm a living sunset, lightning in my bones."
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"Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!"
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"I am always trying to convey something that can’t be conveyed, to explain something which is inexplicable, to tell about something I have in my bones, something which can be expressed only in the bones."
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"Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them."
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"The only decent bone in her body was mine."
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"Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones."
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"We definitely aren't very good at staying in one place. There's not a domesticated bone in my body."
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"Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory."
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"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."
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"Grief never mended no broken bones."
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"What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh."
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"We all got a hillbilly bone down deep inside."
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"Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone."
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"We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace."
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"The dog that trots about finds a bone."
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"Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones."
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"The fingerprints of the god who amused himself fashioning them - I can see them on any bone whatsoever."
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