I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.

History counts its skeletons in round numbers.
A thousand and one remains a thousand,
as though the one had never existed:
an imaginary embryo, an empty cradle,
…
emptiness running down steps toward the garden,
nobody‘s place in line.

There’s scary stuff in ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark.’ There’s some really nasty skeletons and dead bodies.

I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I’m kind of grateful I’ve got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

I’m a good role model. I have an amazing marriage, and it will be long lasting. I think I’m a good mom. I could run for office, no problem, because there are no skeletons in my closet.

After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I’ll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.

There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last respect a rather common one.

There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been.

Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents.

If you could count the skeletons in my closet, under my bed and up under my faucet, then you would know I’ve completely lost it. Is he nuts? No he’s insane!

Your past is a skeleton walking one step behind you, and your future is a a skeleton walking one step in front of you. Maybe you don’t wear a watch, but your skeletons do, and they always know what time it is.

China is the same age as I am, and even I have to admit that she wears it better!” He laughed, then stopped and peered at her. “Because I’m a skeleton” he explained.

He turns his back to the far shore and rows toward it. He can in this way travel away from, yet still see, his house….he feels he is riding a floating skeleton…Some birds in the almost-dark are flying as close to their reflections as possible.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

I love skeletons and bones so much.

I’m in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I’m in a good mood. It’s beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her heart is nestled next to a small set of bones buried beside a frozen river, which will emerge with the spring thaw, a skeleton ship rising out of the water”.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness–when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

Mosquito […] had asked Ear to marry him, whereupon Ear fell on the floor in uncontrollable laughter. “How much longer do you think you will live?” she asked. “You are already a skeleton.” Mosquito went away humiliated, and any time he passed her way he told Ear that he was still alive.

I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?

Everybody knows pretty much everything about me. I emptied all the skeletons out of my closet a long time ago.

Once again the absurdity of my inner thoughts overwhelms me, and I want to crawl out of my skin, escape my ugly, awkward flesh and be a skeleton, naked and anonymous.

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

The Irish are people who will never have leaders, for at the great moment they always desert them. They have produced one skeleton–Parnell–never a man.

Not many skeletons left in my closet because I invite them to dance all over the front room!

Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.

How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion‘s aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

You could believe that Sinbad could fight a skeleton because that’s from a period in the past, a magical period. But if you had James Bond fighting a skeleton, it’d be almost comical.

Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof huts Wet processions Families walk Stunted boys big heads don’t talk Look bony skulls & silent round eyes Starving black angels in human disguise.

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.

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I’m going the other way. I don’t want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign‘s court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral.

There’s got to be a backbone, there’s got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it’s always got to be fresh so it doesn’t bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.

I have always been open about the way I live my life, because hiding skeletons in the closet and presenting a picture-perfect image is not my style.

I suggest in my own discussion of this episode, Mann invites us to set the attempt to philosophize about his predicament in the context of Aschenbach’s life. The literary presentation thus adds to the naked philosophical skeleton.

The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It’s like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.

America forms the longest and straightest bone in the earth‘s skeleton.

As the oceans get hotter, corals also become heat-stressed and expel the algae that live on their skeletons, resulting in coral bleaching events that can wipe out entire reefs. This destroys the habitat that supports a quarter of all marine life.

Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame

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

Every heart has its own skeletons.

There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.

If we’re going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It’s the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.

It’s three disparate elements: the stop sign, the stage paintings, and the skeleton paintings. Those are three sharp ideas, although none of them are necessarily good ideas. Tons of artists have made whole careers out of those three ideas.

I build a book the way coral reefs are built: millions of little calcareous skeletons piling up one atop another, though in my case the skeletons are drafts.

Without the emotion and willingness of Spirit, our music becomes dry and dusty—without life. Without doctrinal bones as a skeleton, the Body is not enfleshed in a healthy way.

I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the outside.

The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man’s existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.

A lawyer‘s job is to manipulate the skeletons in other people’s closets.

I said: “A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces”. In other words: a tiger does not stand in the forest and say: “I am a tiger”. When you pass where the tiger has walked before, you see the skeleton of the duiker, you know that some tigritude has been emanated there.

Wanderers eastward, wanderers west, Know you why you cannot rest? ‘Tis that every mother‘s son Travails with a skeleton. Lie down in the bed of dust; Bear the fruit that bear you must; Bring the eternal seed to light, And morn is all the same as night.

I may not have any skeletons in my closet, but I do have a little box of souls in my sock drawer. —T-SHIRT

The cat which isn’t let out of the bag often becomes a skeleton in the cupboard.

Obviously, with a CGI character, you’re building a character in much the same way as a real creature is built. You build the bones, the skeletons, the muscles. You put layers of fat on. You put a layer of skin on which has to have a translucency, depending on what the character is.

Behind bars, everyone‘s an inmate. Everybody has their skeletons; everybody has their story.

What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything down and find the kind of essence, the skeleton if you like, which can then be fleshed out by performance and cinematography.

You need to be emotionally ready for a baby, and the best way to do that is to clean skeletons from your own closest. Deal with the baggage of your childhood, or you’ll just pass it on to your kid.

Biological anthropology tends to focus on skeletons because that’s what is often left behind in the ground, but I am a whole-body anatomist, I’m a clinical anatomist and that’s what I teach, I teach it all, not just the skeleton, the muscles and nerves, blood vessels.

How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? … the skeleton of our understanding, … and actually they are the majority. … We have here a problem that is not easy of solution, but yet must engage the attention of all who wish to devote themselves to education.

[An artist] will sooner and with more certainty, establish the character of skeletons, than the most learned anatomist, whose eye has not been accustomed to seize on every peculiarity.

You’d better put sunblock on that skeleton head of yours. You’re gonna fry.” –Bobby

It’s rare that I’ve read a script where I’m like, “Oh, my god, it’s hilarious!” All you want is a good skeleton and good characters. Then, you can go, “Okay, I can bring a lot to this. I can improvise and I can create something out of this.”

If I were to run for office, my skeletons would come dancing out of the closet in a can-can.

A living skeleton isn’t enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?

Any constraint is part of the skeleton that you build the composition on – including your own incompetence.

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.

When you admit that you are married, people try to get skeletons out of your closet. They dig into your personal lives and link you with strangers, which could be detrimental. They also want to know details about your marriage, children, and so on. I wanted to keep it private because I only want my work to speak.

In April 2001, I visited Big Bone Lick State Park in Kentucky. The heaps of mastodon and other large skeletons that used to loom out of the brackish backwaters along the Ohio River here are long gone, though the occasional big bone sometimes comes to light.

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that’s a pretty cool concept.

Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.

But I’m not afraid of the skeletons in Julie‘s closet. I look forward to meeting the rest of them, looking them hard in the eye, giving them firm, bone-crunching handshakes.

Then, you were supposed to discover the city, where they were. But because somebody like skeletons. And that they discovered that they were at a cheap price, we used too many skeletons all over the place, and the public got the wrong message.

She’s not… She’s not datin’ the skeleton, is she? How would that be even possible, let alone… nice? He’s got no skin, or lips, or… or nothin’.

Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.

Funnily enough, the most difficult style to do is the plain pump because it needs to look good on a variety of feet. I compare it to having a good bone structure. Make-up will make you look good, but it helps if you have a good skeleton to begin with.

Suppose that insect wings developed primarily as thermoregulators and then were used for skimming and finally flying, evolving along the way. What would they be “for”? Or what is the skeleton “for”? For keeping one upright, protecting organs, storing calcium, making blood cells…?

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

The sound of a harpsichord – two skeletons copulating on a tin roof in a thunderstorm.

One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.

Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.

He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting.

Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It’s just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends.

Some things are fairly obvious when it’s a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them.

I love rewriting because that is where and how you discover the story. Its like you have this skeleton, and you get to put flesh on it and hair and clothes and really wonderful jewelry.

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

All the songs on the first album were like skeletons of how we really played them. It was just a combination of not having any studio experience and having to do everything so fast. I also think that studios are, by nature, limiting. You cannot get the sound of five big amplifiers on a little piece of tape.

The laws of nature are the skeleton of the universe. They support it, give it shape, tie it together. Taken as a whole, they embody a vision of our world that is both breathtaking and awe-inspiring.

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn’t noticed the change, I’d been having such a ball!

No. . .I mean, I’m sorry he. . .You know, said those things to you.” “It’s part of being a ‘good’ family. Everyone’s got skeletons in their closet.

Photographs are still being taken but aren’t being shown. There’s one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles; if it was a woman, she was likely raped; if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.

We know we need, and so we acquire and eat and eat, past the point of bodily fullness, trying to sate a greater need. Ashamed of this, we turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how to not-need.

Drawing is the skeleton of what you do and color is its flesh.

Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as ‘and’ and ‘what,’ or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as ‘hello.

I’m afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I’ve got a whole cemetery full of them.

No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.

There’s a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they’re wearing. I’m not gonna act all ashamed of it.

The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton.

If Democrats insist on looking for skeletons in the closet, they should take a long look at themselves. They’ve hidden more than their fair share.

I don’t have any skeletons in my closet.

The dreams are the skeleton of all reality.

Hey,” Dopey said when I was finished reading. “How come they never mentioned me? I’m the one who found the skeleton.” “Oh, yeah,” Sleepy said in disgust. “Your role was really crucial. After all, if it wasn’t for you, the guy‘s skull might still have been intact.

What I have on my left calf is two skeletons; when you put them together, they form a heart, and it says, ‘Love till Death.’ That represents me and my wife – ’til death do us part.

Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.

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

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

By Interstate 70: a dog skeleton, a vacuum cleaner, TV dinners, a doll, a pie, rolls of carpet.Later, next to the South Platte River: algae, broken concrete, jet contrails, the smell of crude oil. What I hope to document, though not at the expense of surface detail, is the form that underlies this apparent chaos.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Pop culture is more and more about skulls and skeletons and zombies and vampires, and that’s not just on Halloween.

Do yourself a favor,’ I said. “Forget it. Forget you ever saw me.” “Forget that you tried to kill me too?” “Yeah. That, too.” “But who are you?” “Percy-” I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. “Gotta go!” “What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?” I bolted for the exit.

They take the greats from the past and compare us. I wonder if they’d ever survive in this era. In a time where it’s recreation, to pull all your skeletons out the closet like Halloween decorations.

If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.

One thing you’ll say for skeletons, they’ll always give you a smile.

in the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night.

But who are you?” Percy—” I started to say. Then the skeletons turned around. “Gotta go!” What kind of name is Percy Gotta-go?

I guess I just like the idea of digging things up. Although I used to be scared of human skeletons.

Everyone’s got skeletons in their closet, and I’ve got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.

The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.