Skeleton/bones and Cartilage

Famous quotes containing the words skeleton, bones and/or cartilage:

    “The bone-frame was made for
    no such shock knit within terror,
    yet the skeleton stood up to it:
    the flesh? it was melted away,
    the heart burnt out, dead ember,
    tendons, muscles shattered, outer husk dismembered....”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.”
    —J. Frank Dobie (1888–1964)

    “An English family consists of a few persons, who, from youth to age, are found revolving within a few feet of each other, as if tied by some invisible ligature, tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)