Skin Quotes
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She had looked in the mirror a million times and only saw the brown of her skin and not the magic flowing beneath it.
Bernice L. McFadden -
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
Anne Carson
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A pixie's true skin color is blue. Cookie Monster, Grover, and other lovable Muppets are also blue. Do not confuse the two. Muppets don't kill you. Usually.
Carrie Jones -
I use products with coconut oil in them all over my skin.
Hannah Teter -
If people wanted to fight me-because of my hair or because my skin was too dark-then I fought them...
Brooke Valentine -
Black people are brown, light yellow and all different colors in the United States. White men created all the vast array of complexions and skin tones in black Americans by copulating with black women.
Alvin Francis Poussaint -
When I was young, I was on a real hot streak with 'Crazy Climber.' There was a good three-week span where I couldn't get that game out of my head. I could not get back to the arcade fast enough to try and climb up there and not get kicked by a potted plant this time. That one got under my skin.
Rich Moore -
Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde.
Nicole Kidman
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Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.
Joyce Carol Oates -
I understand that it's a volatile environment. Certainly I have tough enough skin, so have at it. There's no way to properly answer that question so I won't try.
Brian Billick -
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
Herodotus -
Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, ‘put your hand on top.’ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage.
Arthur Mitchell -
I don't think sun-tanned skin is any more attractive than white skin, or any healthier, for that matter.
Marilyn Monroe -
It seems only yesterday I used to believethere was nothing under my skin but light.If you cut me, I would shine.But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life,I skin my knees. I bleed.
William Collins
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I was darker than he was. And I’m not just talking about our skin coloring. He told me I had a tragic vision of life. “That’s why you like Spider-Man.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Since the soul in me is dead, Better save the skin.
Archpoet -
Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
Gautama Buddha -
Skin care is so important, and I'm the craziest person about it.
Jeffree Star -
Physical compatibility is a question of skin first and foremost. If the contact of one skin on another isn’t immediately pleasing nothing else can possibly matter, but if it is, all other things may follow.
Judith Krantz -
Azazello begged her not to worry, assuring her that he had seen not only naked women but also women with their skin flayed clean off.
Mikhail Bulgakov
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I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
Tia Carrere -
Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.
Lord Byron -
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person's skin from his own?
Joseph Murray -
Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.
Paul Engle