Skin Quotes
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The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.
Fernand Braudel -
Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.
Antonio Lobo Antunes
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...the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.
Nancy Willard -
Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.
Dan Savage -
Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.
Alane Ferguson -
There are two things in life that I really wanted to do: be an actress, and to be in skin care, and I've gotten to do both of them.
Victoria Principal -
My skin is my canvas. The artwork on it represents something that is very powerful and meaningful in my life. I look at my skin as something of a living diary because all my tattoos represent a time in my life. And I never wish to shut the door on the past, so I carry it all with me.
Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
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Children come running to the truth But you've got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one's living high another's grieving But what's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh - What's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.
Ben Harper -
Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.
Plutarch -
I find this curious - two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok.
Lorde -
After having a baby, there will inevitably be something on your body - a mark, a scar or some loose skin - that wasn't there before.
Constance Marie -
He was the khan of Wolves and he feared no man. They would pay dearly for his skin.
Conn Iggulden -
What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.
Katharine Hepburn
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Gravy is persistently plagued by two problems. Problem number one - skin. And problem number two - lumps.
Ari Shapiro -
I can’t go to jail, not with his soft skin and these boyish good looks. I’ll be snapped up before the first lights out!
Cedric the Entertainer -
Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.
Mahatma Gandhi -
She gets on you under your skin like a tattoo she'll always be there!
Jason Aldean -
Gator lifted the needle and dabbed at the decorated flesh, frowning. The cases on the Mimosa generally had terrible skin, but they were docile enough to make a good filing system, considering you could usually find them where you left them – they didn’t move around much on their own, and unlike other kinds of hardcopy, they seldom got stolen.
Pat Cadigan -
The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to be part of the other, the outside world: the impossibility of ever being able to get beneath another person's skin.
Beat Streuli -
I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.
Courteney Cox -
One wants in a Prime Minister a good many things, but not very great things. He should be clever but need not be a genius; he should be conscientious but by no means strait-laced; he should be cautious but never timid, bold but never venturesome; he should have a good digestion, genial manners, and, above all, a thick skin.
Anthony Trollope -
The truth was, she couldn't stand to let such an opportunity pass; she wanted to see what was behind the closed door, because it was there. Because leaving it unopened would get under her skin.
S. D. Perry