Skins famous quotes
04-23-2025
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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
-- A. E. Housman -
We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.
-- A.L. Kennedy -
We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.
-- Abbey Lincoln -
Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
-- Aberjhani -
Be who you want to be - be free in your own skin, be liberated and feel beautiful, and do what you want to do without judgement
-- Adam Lambert -
Take control over your skin by using an acne treatment system that actually works: Proactiv+.
-- Adam Levine -
I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.
-- Adelaide Clemens -
In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.
-- Adelaide Clemens -
You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my skin with womenChain my tongue with whiskyStuff my nose with garlicCoat my eyes with butterFill my ears with silverStick my legs in plasterTell me lies about Vietnam.
-- Adrian Mitchell -
One of the great functions of art is to help us imagine what it is like to be not ourselves, what it is like to be someone or something else, what it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
-- Adrienne Rich -
I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
-- Aimee Bender -
I have always been a person who is extremely comfortable in my skin. I have always just been myself in all these years on the public platform.
-- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan -
Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.Their tongues are separate in speech,And their natures as well;Their skins are distinguished,As thou distinguishest the foreign peoples.Thou makest a Nile in the underworld,Thou bringest forth as thou desirestTo maintain the peopleAccording as thou madest them for thyself,The lord of all of them, wearying with them,The lord of every land, rising for them,The Aton of the day, great of majesty.
-- Akhenaton -
Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.
-- Al Capp -
I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.
-- Alan Watts -
Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.
-- Alane Ferguson -
Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.
-- Alber Elbaz -
My skin was the border between the world and me.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
I prefer using cream-based products on my skin. I love having that summery dewy skin - I like using cream blushers as well.
-- Alexa Chung -
I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my skin?"
-- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon -
If zipper catches skin, I'll know I had it out when I should a kept it in.
-- Alice Cooper -
The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.
-- Alice Weaver Flaherty -
It helps to think of soil as a living organism covered with skin like a human. We can live with a certain percentage of our skin damaged, but if too high a percentage is damaged, we die. So, too, does soil and thus most life
-- Allan Savory -
As Conservatives, We Don't Care About The Color of Your Skin, We Care About The Color of Our Flag
-- Allen West -
The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.
-- Alphonso Jackson -
Many people who voted for Mr. Obama in the last election did so based on skin color.
-- Alveda King -
Haven's warm, clammy palms press hard against my cheeks as the tarnished edge of her silver skull ring leaves a smudge on my skin.
-- Alyson Noel -
With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it.
-- Amanda Beard -
I protect my skin with sunscreen and am religious about keeping my face moisturized and properly protected all day, so I also use a face lotion with SPF 30.
-- Amanda Beard -
At 50 you're more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don't put up with nonsense, especially from men.
-- Amanda Donohoe -
I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.
-- Amanda Plummer -
It gets better. It gets so much easier to be in your skin no matter what size that skin is. If you do something that you're good at and that makes you happy, that's the best outlet that I could ever suggest to anybody....if you are able to just enjoy who you are, and if you can learn to love who you are, then you'll just be a much happier person.
-- Amanda Schull -
You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.
-- Amarillo Slim -
The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I know that having the perfect body doesn't fix all your problems, or make you love yourself more. To me, it's all about being comfortable in your own skin.
-- America Ferrera -
Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.
-- Amy Adams -
Life is easier when you are comfortable in your own skin.
-- Amy Dickinson -
consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
-- Amy Hempel -
There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk.
-- Amy Lee -
I feel very comfortable in my own skin. When someone makes jokes about me being heavy, it makes me mad. It's not true. I'm right where I should be.
-- Amy Schumer -
Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei
-- Amy Tan -
Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.
-- Amy Winehouse -
Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.
-- Anderson Cooper -
We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.
-- Andrea Gibson -
The paint has a skin to it, here taut and glossy, there wrinkled, abraded, scarred. It is pierced, abraded, scraped. A line drawn through it will go through half a dozen states, from the furry bloom of crusted charcoal to a blind furrow, cutting a channel in to soft paint below.
-- Andrew Forge -
Perhaps we become aware of our existence only when we feel on our skin the touch of a place that has no name, that connects us to the earliest time, to all the dead, to prehistory, when the mind first stood apart from the world, still unaware that it was orphaned.
-- Andrzej Stasiuk -
The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation.
-- Andy Grove -
Drink a bunch of water and get facials regularly. I take care of my skin.
-- Angela Bassett -
Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
-- Angela Carter -
If one is talking about sculpture then scale and skin is everything,
-- Anish Kapoor -
You hold on to old experiences: injuries, injustices, and great love affairs, too. And you hold them in your joints and your organs, and wear them on your skin.
-- Ann Brashares -
Caffeine dehydrates the body and speeds up the aging of the skin and kidneys.
-- Ann Louise Gittleman -
Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!
-- Anna Kournikova -
I will howl for you, human boy (...). I will hunt you in my girl skin but I'll celebrate as wolf.
-- Annette Curtis Klause -
In his wolf-skin he was as strong as any of them, but he was a gentle person in many ways. He'd feel so bad about failing he'd probably step aside for someone else without a fight.
-- Annette Curtis Klause -
I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
-- Annie Dillard -
Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.
-- Annie Lennox -
Staph lives on skin. Thats the reason why many infections start as a boil.
-- Anthony S. Fauci -
It is not only by the pores of the skin that this aqueous emaciation takes place. A considerable quantity of humidity is also exhaled by the lungs at each expiration.
-- Antoine Lavoisier -
There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.
-- Anton Ehrenzweig -
The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it.
-- Antoni Tapies -
In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.
-- Antonin Artaud -
When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on.
-- Antonio Damasio -
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 -
A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.
-- Anya Seton -
Since the soul in me is dead, Better save the skin.
-- Archpoet -
I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.
-- ASAP Rocky -
I like Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream, as its great for soothing dry skin and adding shine. I use it instead of balm, too.
-- Ashley Madekwe -
I love skin care and actually wanted to be an esthetician for many years.
-- Ashley Rickards -
I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.
-- Aubrey Plaza -
I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
I have olive skin, so if I'm in the sun for even 15 minutes, I turn brown.
-- Audrina Patridge -
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
-- August Strindberg -
An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.
-- B. F. Skinner -
The evocative power of the drum can be compared to the Trinity. The drum's frame comes from the trunk of a tree, and that tree has a spirit. It is not dead wood. There is also spirit in the animal skin. If there wasn't, it would not produce sound. Those, plus the spirit of the person playing become an irresistible force.
-- Babatunde Olatunji -
Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody's home, then I despise my own life - my birth, my upbringing, everything.
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
I usually go make-up free when I'm not working. Because I work so much, during the free days that I have I like to let my skin breathe, but of course I'm girly so I like to put on some blush and some mascara.
-- Bar Refaeli -
Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin...
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
-- Barbara Steele -
[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.
-- Barry Lyga -
You deal with failure - strike, strike, strike - all the time. Acting is like that. You have to have a very thick skin in a way - your hair is too dark, you're too ugly for the part, your audition wasn't good.
-- Benicio Del Toro -
The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
-- Benjamin Banneker -
Poverty has a home in Africalike a quiet second skin.It may be the only place on earth where it is worn with unconscious dignity.
-- Bessie Head -
My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what works. Often he used to open up his motorbike to fix things and I saw how the wheels worked. His car used to be open for dissection very regularly. All this taught me and inspired me to look beyond what I could see on the skin.
-- Bibhu Mohapatra -
Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.
-- Billy Gibbons -
An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.
-- Billy Sunday -
Tamaki: A girl should only show skin once she's married, not before!!!
-- Bisco Hatori -
Old peoples' skin sags because it's being pulled toward the underworld.
-- Bo -
You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we're all spirit. That's all we are, we're just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we're going to leave that behind.
-- Bob Dylan -
Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.
-- Bob Dylan -
I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken
-- Bob Dylan -
Here's what I've found in Louisiana: The voters want to know what you believe, what you stand for, and what you plan to do, not what shade your skin is.
-- Bobby Jindal -
I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos.
-- Brandon Boyd -
I think what makes someone pretty amazing is being comfortable in your own skin.
-- Brendan Dooling -
I tried to make meat loaf out of the girl but it becomes too frustrating a task and instead I spend the afternoon smearing her meat all over the walls, chewing on strips of skin I ripped from her body
-- Bret Easton Ellis -
People just need to be confident in their own skin and be proud of themselves.
-- Bristol Palin -
I knew that my hair was falling out and I had really weird skin. My face looked really weird and I was getting this fuzz on my face and I was always cold - always to the point of uncontrollably shaking. I was more scared that 85 lbs. wasn't good enough. I wanted to be lower.
-- Brittany Snow
