Skins Quotes by Shu Uemura, Idris Elba, Jamaica Kincaid, Becca Fitzpatrick, J.R. Ward, Lauren DeStefano and many others.
Love your skin, give oil a go.
I’m tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It’s always sexy.
People think if you describe someone with glistening brown skin you’re writing about race, as if the whole of the African diaspora is in someone’s brown skin.
If you can’t feel, why did you kiss me?” Patch traced a finger along my collarbone, then headed south stopping at my heart. I felt it pounding through my skin. “Because I feel it here, in my heart,” he said quietly.
Man, some open doors were not welcoming, and that was so the case here—less hi-how’re-ya, more come-in-so-your-skin-can-be-used-to-make-a-super-hero-cape-for-one-of-Hannibal-Lecter’s-patients.
I stare at her collarbone that’s framed with lace, the hollow of her throat, her shoulders that rise with each rise with the weight of her next breath. We’re fragile things. Our bones show through our skin. What would any god want with us?
My sleeping pill is white.
It is a splendid pearl;
it floats me out of myself,
my stung skin as alien
as a loose bolt of cloth.
It is a splendid pearl;
it floats me out of myself,
my stung skin as alien
as a loose bolt of cloth.
For someone who wears makeup so much all the time, it’s really important to take it off and give your skin some time to breath.
There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.
Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, ‘I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection.’ I have dubbed this kind of fallacy ‘the Argument from Personal Incredulity.’ Time and again, it has proven the prelude to an intellectual banana-skin experience.
I find this curious – two photos from today, one edited so my skin is perfect and one real. remember flaws are ok.
When we finally had a cast and could see what they could do, here was an opportunity to go back and modify things. We didn’t actually do that much modifying, but we did enough to make it feel as if they fit in their own skin, and we got a lot of good input from them. They’re a terrific cast. They worked really hard.
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
I remember that feeling of skin. It’s strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers still tingle with it.
She gets on you under your skin like a tattoo she’ll always be there!
Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.
Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?
As a woman, birth control can really mess you up. Like, I switched and it completely messed me up – not completely, but I just started breaking out and as soon as I got off it, my skin was completely clear again.
I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.
If you look at me close enough, there’s a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don’t know if it’s my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.
Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you don’t because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn’t look like drowning and some people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.
I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat’s skin.
When I wear the national team shirt, its sole contact with my skin makes it stand on an end.
It’s their skins I’m peeling,” she said. “The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness.
The wheel is an extension of the foot, the book is an extension of the eye, clothing an extension of the skin, electric circuitry an extension of the central nervous system.
Feminine spirituality is much more about the emanation of love in this moment, feeling into this moment, feeling the texture of this moment through the skin, through the body, and then letting your life become an emanation of love.
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.
In 2012, I was diagnosed with melanoma – skin cancer – and had to get surgery on my left foot. I was out for four weeks – no dancing, no walking, nothing! It was horrible, but it taught me patience and to never take for granted the simple things we have.
The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows…Color is surface skin that fits over the form.
I’m not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one’s skin color or one’s gender, I think it should be done based on one’s need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.
The fox changes his skin but not his habits.
The painter saw what was, an alternate
Candor and secrecy inside the skin.
Candor and secrecy inside the skin.
I love romance. I think our skin clears up and we’re nicer when you are in love.
I feel good in my own skin because I’ve accepted the fact that I’m me. That’s what’s so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody’s different.
I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself.
Hope is what happens when a wound starts to heal;
Whether skin-deep or soul-deep, you begin to feel real.
Whether skin-deep or soul-deep, you begin to feel real.
The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself.
I don’t see anything wrong with being comfortable with my own skin.
I realized that my skin was always the best when I had only been cleaning it, I hadn’t been moisturizing that much and I hadn’t been going to a facialist.
I have never fit into this town, this marriage, this skin. I am the child who was picked last to play tag; I am the girl who laughed although she did not get the joke; I am the piecemeal part of you that you pretend doesn’t exist, except it is all I am, all the time.
I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
‘Skins’ was like our uni. I’m tight with everyone from ‘Skins’ because we had that special experience together.
I don’t weigh myself – it’s all about how I feel in my clothes. What looks good on one person might not look good on another body type. I happen to be very confident in my own skin. It takes time to get to that place, but it’s all about embracing yourself and your body.
I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.
I think one of the hardest things about doing a book in the first person is that to a certain extent each day, when you begin to do your work, you’re climbing into somebody else’s skin.
My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn’t be alive anymore with so much pain, and at the same time I knew I was alive because it hurt. I was afraid that death would find its way into me through this open knee and I quickly covered my knee with my hands.
Holy smoke! We lost our last match and there’s a storm coming!
Party On!
A flash flood swept away all our gear and we’re twenty miles from the trailhead!
Party On!
My femur bone’s sticking through my skin and I’ve gotta cross that river!
Party On!
Party On!
A flash flood swept away all our gear and we’re twenty miles from the trailhead!
Party On!
My femur bone’s sticking through my skin and I’ve gotta cross that river!
Party On!
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.
She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.
Without that thick skin and a clear vision of what it is you want to do, what it is you know you want to do, it can be really easy to get out here and get lost and swept away in whatever is going on. You really have to be steadfast in the mind for sure.
I love you more than my own skin.
Money is human kind’s greatest invention. Money doesn’t discriminate. Money doesn’t care whether a person is poor, whether a person comes from a good family, or what his skin color is. Anybody can make money.
Just the idea of making money can increase your skin conductancy, meaning there’s a current of excitement.
When people are really great at what they do there is no aggression because they are comfortable in their own skin. They know themselves well enough that you don’t have anything to prove.
My biggest fear isn’t crashing this bike at 85mph and losing my skin – it’s sitting in a chair at 90 and thinking ‘I wish I’d done more’
People just need to be confident in their own skin and be proud of themselves.
Anybody with skin issues knows that that’s a very sensitive subject, and that’s why I’ve never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.
I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we’re fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.
If you really want your films to say something that you hope is unique, then patience and stamina, thick skin and a kind of stupidity, a mule-like stupidity, is what you really need.
All these people who think they deserve free health care, or a job, or a plasma screen TV, simply because they radiate heat at 98.6 degrees, or because they were born in a certain place, or because they have a certain skin color – it’s all bunk. There’s no such thing as a ‘just’ wage. There’s only what you earn.
Now you wear your skin like iron
Homophobia’s just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance – skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability – you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.
You are not an encapsulated bag of skin dragging around a dreary little ego. You are an evolutionary wonder, a trillion cells singing together in a vast chorale, an organism – environment, a symbiosis of cell and soul.
Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I’ve developed a pretty thick skin.
Almost as soon as I went vegan, people started telling me that my skin looked great, and that I appeared younger, slimmer, and healthier. I’m convinced that of all the changes I’ve made to my lifestyle, it’s the adoption of a vegan diet that has been best for me – physically, mentally, and certainly spiritually.
God has given the salt lick to the deer; and He has given to man, red-skin and white, the delicious spring at which to slake his thirst.
Most times we only see things for the way we are. But we’re good at lying to ourselves. Sometimes we need somebody who’s not living in our skin to point out how things really are.
I feel like somehow I’m living my life mentally in reverse. It’s taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I’m going to be dancing on tables when I’m 50. I really hope I am.
I feel that if you can transcend the color of your skin, with your talent, why carry that as a badge or a label?
You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once.
I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead.
Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.
I was performing skin grafts and became interested in why skin wouldn’t graft permanently.
I just wondered what a thing it would be…if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free. It would be…heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and… Very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unemcumbered, into the morning.
A man doesn’t grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul.
He wants to do you in cause the color of your skin.
consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in a sandstorm in the Western Sahara, I understood Muhammed’s dictum, ‘A journey is a fragment of Hell.’
I’m confident – confident in my skin, and I’m cool with my flaws and all that stuff.
The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.
We can wash the skin of our bodies with a bath, but through asana practice we not only purify our blood and cells, we are cleansing the inner body as we practice.
A man can be honest in any sort of skin.
Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
A woman is most beautiful when she smiles. Other than that, the most valuable tip I’ve learned is always use a skin moisturiser!
I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn’t wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.
Generally speaking, politicians are an odd bunch. They seem to have very thick skins and genuinely don’t care what people think. And charm is a very important part of the politician’s armoury. I try to resist that kind of charm.
All right, kids. We’re going to a party where they don’t like us very much. Everyone know what they’re doing? (Sin) Not a clue, but I think certain death and dismemberment is in my forecast, followed by a light rain of guys and flayed skin. (Kish)
I don’t like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.
Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our sight and burn our skins to such an extent that we could not survive. The smallest bit placed on one’s arm would produce a blister which it would need months to heal.
The happier I am, the better my skin is. Any woman knows when they are over exerting themselves, whether it is emotionally or physically, you can see it on your face.
I have pretty thick skin. I’ve been in the arena a long time, and that means that I am not going to get down with [Donald Trump] and go insult for insult.
CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: “The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.”
For the Yupik, all life was continuous, animal with human with ‘spirit’, and recognising that continuum allowed them to undergo transformations that we, locked into our own disappointingly Cartesian skins, find impossible even to imagine.
I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.
I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It’s a nice barrier against super high heat which tends to make a lot of fish to turn really flaky. It’s very easy to overcook fish on the grill. But I still brush it with oil before I start.
I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
See, tomato skins are really good at keeping tomato juices inside the tomato, but they have one defect: Moisture can escape from the tops, where the tomatoes were attached to the vine.
I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye.
A lot of people say I am using all the procedures for my face. I didn’t do anything. I live a healthy life, I take care of my skin and my body. I’m against Botox, I’m against injections; I think it’s damaging your face, damaging your nerves. It’s all me. I will age gracefully, as my mom does.
At 50 you’re more confident, more comfortable in your skin and you don’t put up with nonsense, especially from men.
I don’t think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.
Underneath all the skin, we’re all the same.
Memory – the very skin of life.
Jim Rosato was recently married, to a Greek nurse. Rosato was half Irish and half Italian, and there was a pool on at the 1st as to which of the two would arrive at work wearing the other’s skin as a hat within the year.
It takes more than some mind games, a couple of parlor tricks, to get under my skin.
When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?
In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It’s all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.
I think women should start to embrace their age. What’s the alternative to getting older? You die. I can’t change the day I was born. But I can take care of my skin, my body, my mind, and try to live my life and be happy.
Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn’t need time to figure it. The soul always knows… whether it’s right or wrong.
If you can judge a wise man by the color of his skin
Then mister you’re a better man than I
Then mister you’re a better man than I
My neediness is not a hole to be filled but something beneath the skin scratching to get out.
He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.
A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.
A man spends the first year of his life learning that he ends at his own skin, and the rest of his life learning that he doesn’t.
Music is the universal language no matter the country we are born in or the color of our skin. Bring us all together.
I chose a sunflower because when darkness descends they close up to regenerate. But I really wish I’d never had the tattoo in the first place. Clean, clear skin is always better.
I want to be Lon Chaney. I want to be Karloff. I want to help people escape the mundane world. I want to make their skins crawl. And I want them to love it every bit as much as I do.
The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.
The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don’t feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.
In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as “Barias” [Amharic for slave]… let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!
Of course, like any woman, I look in the mirror and think, ‘Oh, wouldn’t I look better with a bit of Botox?’ But you’ve got to find comfort in your own skin. I’ve watched women stretch themselves year after year until their faces are no longer recognisable.
A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.
Homeopathy has been of tremendous value in reversing diseases such as diabetes, arthritis, bronchial asthma, epilepsy, skin eruptions, allergic conditions, mental or emotional disorders, especially if applied at the onset of the disease.
The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head’s going to explode with ideas.
But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn’t do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn’t in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.
The same with the mortgage brokers that were selling people mortgages they couldn’t afford. We shouldn’t pay them on each mortgage they write. They should have what they call “skin in the game,” where they’ve got to reimburse us if the guy who sold the mortgage defaults.
There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color or religion.
I combined smoky grey shadows with ultra heavy black liner and piled on extra lashes for a mysterious and sultry look. To contrast with the gritty texture on the eyes, I kept the girls skin soft and pretty and gave their lips a natural flush.
I doubt you’ve ever been forced to nonstop bang a woman hyped up on the undead voodoo version of Spanish fly, have you?” His chuckle was soft. “Can’t say that I have, Kitten.” “Yeah, well, consider me an original.” This time, when his lips brushed across my skin, it lasted more than a moment. “I always have.
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.
‘Will,’ she whispered against his mouth. She wanted him closer to her so badly, it was like an ache, a painful hot ache that spread from her stomach to speed her heart and knot her hands in his hair and set her skin burning. ‘Will, you need not be so careful. I will not break.’
In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would
make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
rights.
make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
rights.
When it comes to skin care, I like to keep things simple. I’m not the type of person who runs out to have facials.
I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles, your kisses…the smell of your hair, the taste of your skin, the touch of your breath on my face. I want to see you in the final hour of my life…to lie in your arms as I take my last breath.
Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him – with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.
When I look back, I was so mean to myself, and I was so uncomfortable in my own skin. I still feel that very loudly sometimes, but to try and really nurture that sense that you are your own friend.
I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater… We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly – hatred just because of the color of somebody’s skin.
I was a dumpy teenager. My mum was a model and was all about looks, so I rebelled by going goth. It took me years of peeling back the onion to finally stop using make-up as a mask and feel comfortable in my skin.
Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.
My skin was the border between the world and me.
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
The fall is my favorite time of year. I love the colors. The sun is out, you get warmth on your skin but there’s the coolness of the breeze. It’s really comfortable.
I will howl for you, human boy (…). I will hunt you in my girl skin but I’ll celebrate as wolf.
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.
She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.
I barely knew I had skin before I met you.
Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen.
I think there’s something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think – you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.
I had acne late, in college. My skin used to be really flawless. Went to college, became a vegetarian, ate a lot of cheese – big mistake. Here I am trying to be healthy and I’m eating grilled cheese sandwiches and French fries every day, having mad eruptions all over my face.
We have a black President in the United States. I think the world has matured. It’s no longer about colour, but the person in the skin.
Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.
Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can’t be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.
Richard began to understand darkness: darkness as something solid and real, so much more than a simple absence of light. He felt it touch his skin, questing, moving, exploring: gliding through his mind. It slipped into his lungs, behind his eyes, into his mouth.
We must now, in the 21st century, protect democracy, one which rests on fundamental rights for all, regardless of skin color, gender, race or religion. Nothing less than that is at stake.
The problem was that I’d never worn a bikini before. My dad doesn’t allow them. He thinks even one-pieces show too much skin and constantly suggests that Jane and I wear wet suits.
The parrot holds its food for prim consumption as daintily as any debutante, [with] a predilection for pot roast, hashed-brown potatoes, duck skin, butter, hoisin sauce, sesame seed oil, bananas and human thumb.
I mean,[Marco] Rubio, he`s having fun. I`ve got to say I`ve never seen him enjoy himself out there so much. He`s found way to get under his skin. So, he`s found way to look like he`s somebody that is a force, which has hasn`t so far.
She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.
Good genetics are a start, but I have to go to the gym, look after my skin, and drink lots of water. It’s my job to take care of myself and my body. Happiness plays a big part in your appearance too.
You’ve got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, Of people whose skin is a different shade. You’ve got to be carefully taught.
For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
There comes a day when you’ve become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can – without going against nature.
He’s helped me a lot over the years.” “I’m sure he has. You scratch his back. He scratches yours.” “I have skin allergies. I’m itchy.
From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile – always singing to himself as he goes – a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind I should like to throw mud at him.
I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn’t go out.
I don’t want to grow a thick skin. Some people say, “Oh, you’re an actress, you have to get used to criticism.” But I don’t accept that. I’ll never get used to criticism, and I’ll always care about whether or not people like my performances – because I’m an entertainer, and I want to please.
Not only was Cain called upon to suffer, but because of his wickedness, he became the father of an inferior race. A curse was placed upon him and that curse has been continued through his lineage and must do so while time endures…
I’m comfortable in my own skin. I know I’m not going to ever be Cindy Crawford or Elle MacPherson.
The best thing wrestling ever taught me was how to network with people, how to talk to people, how to deal with a lot of different kinds of people in different situations and being a good guy and a bad guy teaches you how to be able to have a thick skin.
Your craving should be for me, angel, not an orgasm. For my body, my hands. Eventually, you won’t be able to come without my skin touching yours.
We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them graham crackers.
Colour is the skin of the world.
More than anything else, my mother wanted to be an actress – a famous actress – which in the 1950s was all about being young, sexy, and available. She was all that, and more. She had big blue eyes, alabaster skin, a heart-shaped face, a beautiful figure. She was just a knockout.
When you’re in the womb, you’re in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and the world, you’re not. Very quickly, you have, living on the surface of your body, trillions of bacteria, literally trillion.
I’ve never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that – of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
Finding joy is probably tantamount to finding yourself and being comfortable in your own skin.
Our bodies are temples of the Lord. We should earn respect and admiration for our hearts, not for showing skin to look sexy.
She kissed me on the mouth. Her mouth tasted like iced coffee and cardamom, and I was overwhelmed by the taste, her hot skin and the smell of unwashed hair. I was confused, but not unwilling. I would have let her do anything to me.
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.
When I was 10 years old, we’d pick out a cow and boom! They’d hit it in the head with a hammer, lift it up by the back legs, and skin it in front of us. Then I’d take the head home and make soup
The yellowfly is almost too small to see, but if you leave its egg in your skin, you will lose an arm or leg before it hatches – if it does not kill you.
To me there’s very few actresses who’ve had twenty years experience who have that cyberpunk aesthetic already baked in. Scarlett Johansson comes from such edgy films from Lost in Translation to Under the Skin – she’s got an incredible body of work and the attitude and the toughness of her really is to me, the Major.
To put to rest any doubts you might have… I’m jealous of every man who comes within ten feet of you. I’m jealous of the clothes on your skin and the air you breathe. I’m jealous of every moment you spend out of my sight
I went to Brazil in 2010 and pretty much did songs about that trip. I was there just to hang out, chill with the people, and feel the vibe. It was great – tons of great women, great skin, good beaches. Cant complain; the food is great.
The Bishop has a skin, God knows,
Wrinkled like the foot of a goose,
(All find safety in the tomb.)
Nor can he hide in holy black
The heron’s hunch upon his back,
But a birch-tree stood my Jack.
Wrinkled like the foot of a goose,
(All find safety in the tomb.)
Nor can he hide in holy black
The heron’s hunch upon his back,
But a birch-tree stood my Jack.
The life of a dancer is not for everyone. You really have to have some thick skin. You really have to know what you’re going into and how competitive the field is.
While we appreciate our ancestry as Americans or even our ethnic ancestry and our color of skin, we believe that our real citizenship is in Heaven.
The proprietor had hair so red that pigmentation had flowed out into every visible inch of his skin and even into the pinks of his eyes, as the colour of flowering cherry trees stains their leaves.
I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal his true identity.
Two people who I think have the world’s most perfect skin are Cate Blanchett and Kate Bosworth. Maybe there’s something to being named Kate, I don’t know, but those two just seem to be effortless, yet completely, ethereally gorgeous.
We have received a dog with serious eye problems and a skin disease in hopeless stage. The person who brought it here demanded we cure it for free and refused the idea of euthanasia to end its pain.
The function of the prosecutor under the federal Constitution is not to tack as many skins of victims as possible against the wall. His function is to vindicate the rights of the people as expressed in the laws and give those accused of crime a fair trial.
When you a darker brunette and have pale skin like I do, it can wash you out a bit, so learning to contour is really helpful. I think you can be a bit more bold with eye makeup to define your eyes, and the same with lip colors – you can go for dark wine colors, which I love.
I think the notion that we are different just because of skin color, and that we should be kept apart or kept from interbreeding, is very hurtful.
Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils.
As a Test cricketer you expect that at times you’re going to be heckled, and you must have a thick skin.
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.
I feel comfortable in my skin. … I used to run around my house naked when I was 13.
I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and my enormous forehead and all these things. I do have a lisp, I do have a forehead I know you could land a plane on, it’s no mystery to me. I just didn’t have the skin for it.
I was never comfortable because I was always trying to wear what was trendy, but it never felt right on my body or in my skin. It felt wrong. I was finally like, hey, fashion and style can be just about self-expresession, about what makes you feel stylish.
Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.
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
With skin, I really believe it has a lot to do with your genes. And I’ve been really lucky.
Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.
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.
Once somebody’s aware of a plot, it’s like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it’s very ugly.
I know what I am fighting for. I am fighting for the most basic rights of innocent children. And that is why I never take the criticism too deep under my skin.
If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink, Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.
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.
Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.
I hate a man who skins the land.
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.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.
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.
The skin is no more separated from the brain than the surface of a lake is separate from its depths; the two are different locations in a continuous medium…The brain is a single functional unit, from cortex to fingertips to toes. To touch the surface is to stir the depths.
Horrible dates are when you’re with people who are immature and can’t really be comfortable in their own skin.
The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.
Her skin is pale as watermelon sucked free of its juices.
What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?
I can’t get into all that physical stuff of having to have flawless skin… Sometimes you see people and it looks like someone’s got an eraser and made their face a little blurry – their traits seem to go out of focus.
I’ve always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you’re in your 40s and you’re kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.
I think what makes someone pretty amazing is being comfortable in your own skin.
I have tried all my life to look after my skin, so I never do things like go to bed with make-up on. I also always use moisturisers. But I certainly do not believe in Botox or anything like that. The thought of it just makes me think ‘urgh’.
The color of a person’s skin had nothing to do with the content of their character.
I’d rather bare skin than wear skin.
There is a sensuality about fabric. I think all materials should be inviting when they touch the skin. When I watch children stroking their mothers clothes, I feel that I have succeeded.
I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.
Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.
Skin was earth; it was soil. I could see, even on my own skin, the joined trapezoids of dust specks God had wetted and stuck with his spit the morning he made Adam from dirt. Now, all these generations later, we people could still see on our skin the inherited prints of the dust specks of Eden.
I’d love to do more comedy. It’d just be nice to go into work and not be crying every day. Some broad slapstick would be great. Falling over banana skins would be wonderful.
Our devil has pale skin and blue eyes
The Stone Age gave us arrow heads and eventually knives, and that allowed us to kill animals in ways you couldn’t before, and once you had them you were able to remove the skin and bones.
How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident, being comfortable in your skin – that’s what really makes you beautiful.
We are all Adam’s children – it’s just the skin that makes all the difference.
I’m a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don’t think I’d ever change back unless it was for a film.
We all live in fear of cancer, but to be told you have skin cancer was terrifying.
I change jobs like drinking water … And as I grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink I regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. So I break camp; I shed skins.
The thing that binds us together is the commonality of our dreams, not our skin tone.
When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?
I like monsters in general – that’s what I like to write about. Somebody was joking with me that my body was becoming a manual for a role-playing game because I’m covered in little monsters. That’s true. I could easily have more monsters on my skin.
Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.
Fashion is every woman’s language, and every woman’s tool. Fashion is anatomy for me, creating your second skin is one of the most intimate art forms I can think of.
When it comes to the skin, there are two possible ways to tighten it up: surgery, or develop the muscle underneath! It is like blowing up a balloon underneath some wrinkly sheets. It eventually pulls them tight!
Take control over your skin by using an acne treatment system that actually works: Proactiv+.
Wearing your clothes or standing in the shower for over an hour, pretending that this skin is your skin, these hands your hands, these shins, these soapy flanks
When you’ve been really beaten, you realize that you are just an envelope of skin, an easily penetrated envelope that holds together a lot of fluids and some rigid structures, which in their turn can simply be broken and invaded.
I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.
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.
I’m trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people’s perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that’s when it can be dangerous.
You know, I dont play the race card a lot. Im half-black, half-white, and Im proud of – my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didnt raise me as a black man. She didnt raise me as a white guy.
I love a strong brow and ChapStick with glowing skin and messy hair. I’m a minimalist at heart.
I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin, it’s something that I cannot help, OK?
It’s not a feminizing product; it’s designed to make your skin look better.
The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy.
And yet there was something about his strength, his arrogance, his sheer size that got under my skin. He probably couldn’t even spell vanilla. He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and…unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.
Our facial skins are thin with large pores; our back skins are thicker with small pores. One acts mainly as filter, the other mainly as barrier. And yet, it’s the same skin, no parts, no assemblies. It’s a system that gradually varies its functionality by varying elasticity.
But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around-they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them for what they are until it’s too late.
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.
I just feel like this skin is mine. It’s aging every day and the tattoos are aging with me. So, I’m going to be an old piece of paper one day with a lot of work on it.
I see my sisters, my mother, my grandmother. I like the way I look. I think I have a nice face. I like my eyes, my mouth. I have a good nose. I have good skin.
I’ve worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I’ll think, ‘Have you stopped learning?’ They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.
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.
Sometimes when you pick up your child you can feel the map of your own bones beneath your hands, or smell the scent of your skin in the nape of his neck. This is the most extraordinary thing about motherhood – finding a piece of yourself separate and apart that all the same you could not live without.
Just recently Ive learned to be okay with myself without wearing makeup. I think it was a special someone telling me that I didnt need it. I started taking care of my skin and realized I didnt need as much as I thought I did.
The skin you’re in makes choices for you…
When you buy bananas all you want is the fruit not the skin, but you have to pay for the skin also. It is a waste. And you the customer should not have to pay for the waste.
There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don’t feel the pain of others because they haven’t imaginatively got under their skins.
I was fine with that. The very idea of Death knowing my name made my skin crawl. Even if this particular Death was only one of many, and almost too pretty to look at.
I like to let my skin breathe when I’m not shooting or working, so that’s why you’ll find me on most of my social media accounts barefaced with face masks!
Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.
It doesn’t ever occur to you, as you fashion your mask so carefully, that it will grow into your skin and graft itself, come to seem irremovable.
This is Romney’s biggest political weakness. His policy flip-flops and the general sense that he’s not comfortable in his own skin leads voters, including many supporters, wondering about his core values.
Beat him until there’s no skin left on his back. If he passes out, wake him and beat him again. (Father) Love you, too, Father. (Acheron)
Never hesitate to imitate another writer – every person learning a craft or an art needs models. Eventually you’ll find your own voice and will shed the skin of the writer you imitated.
The concept of the characters in animal skins and us satirizing modern technology made it fun. But the voices we cast and the characterization of Fred Flintstone had a lot to do with it.
Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice – that is the essence. And if it’s not the essence, then we’ve been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot – the content of character, not the color of skin.
the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.
It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.
When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.
Why hate someone for the color of their skin when there are much better reasons to hate them?
‘Skins’ was such a great platform for young actors. They had this whole thing about getting people who weren’t trained, this new generation, this new culture.
I don’t want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun – hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.
I got so into moisturizing, my skin started overproducing oil. That’s my story. There’s a lot to talk about, for sure.
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children’s children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.
If you’re born in America with a black skin, you’re born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.
As hipster chicks age, and their skin starts to sag, tramp stamps sink below waistbands, like the sun slipping into the sea.
I think women don’t grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.
Donald Trump is a guy that’s gets stuff done. If he says he’s gonna do something, he does it. He doesn’t worry about it. He’s got thick skin. He’s gonna do it. He’s gonna bring jobs back.
A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin
Flying is awful, there’s nothing to do when you’re up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I’m terrified.
If your friend is critical [of your work], you have to have a very thick skin and a thick skin is something that only builds up after it’s callused for awhile.
There wouldn’t be half as much fun in the world if it weren’t for children and men, and there ain’t a mite of difference between them under the skins.
My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.
The joyful will stoop with sorrow, and when you have gone to the earth I will let my hair grow long for your sake, I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion
I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It’s just how it is.
The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.
People are realizing that being gay is just as defining as the color of our skin and it’s not a choice. I’m really encouraged. I think in my lifetime we will achieve equality. I’m honored to be a part of it.
Stanley Kubrick was brilliant at getting under the audience’s skin. He was very interested in the idea of, ‘How can I tell this with just a camera?’
In practice it is possible to determine directly the skin colour and hence the ethnic affiliations of the ancient Egyptians by microscopic analysis in the laboratory; I doubt if the sagacity of the researchers who have studied the question has overlooked the possibility.
Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world. The cost is high, but the blessing of being compassionate is beyond your wildest dreams.
I don’t think because I hang out with enough black people, I’m gonna turn black. What kind of rationalization is that? I’m just friends with people that I like. I don’t care what skin color you are.
Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.
That was probably the most important fight of my career…he was this crazy guy, who acted like most adults that I knew as a kid, and I knew right away by him being so crazy and wild and quick tempered, I was gonna get under his skin and aggravate the heck out of him. And that’s exactly what I did.
We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man’s presumption made of man in Auschwitz
But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough.” – ‘The Girl with Two Skins’ from A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects
Personally, I don’t like watching violence. I’d much rather see more skin.
You’ve got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made
And people whose skin is a different shade.
Of people whose eyes are oddly made
And people whose skin is a different shade.
I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That’s why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
You still should enjoy the beach and going outside. Having a good time at the beach can still include being smart about protecting your skin because getting burned is no fun at all.
I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other’s wounds; they repair the broken skin.
But he who loveliness within Hath found, all outward loathes, For he who color loves, and skin, Loves but their oldest clothes.
People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.
The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.
I love you more than my own skin and even though you don’t love me the same way, you love me anyways, don’t you? And if you don’t, I’ll always have the hope that you do, and i’m satisfied with that. Love me a little. I adore you.
I’ve worked hard to feel beautiful in my natural skin. Personally, I don’t ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.
I went on Skins’ when I was 23, and everyone else was about 17. It was like being back at school.
True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights
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
What I do is sometimes – at least in Germany – met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I’ve decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn’t feel any more.
Eyes open, then,” I say, tapping the skin between my eyebrows. I don’t really need her eyes to be on mine, but I feel better when they are.
In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport… I would say most hunters are Christian men.
I’m mildly obsessed with skin care. I do a lot of masks at home, like Elisha Coy’s Korean Collagen masks. I also use an embarrassingly wide variety of facial creams.
Nothing’s changed except the dates on the newspapers. I’m in my same skin thinking the same old thoughts. The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen.
I said, “If I was a Negro girl-” He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. “We can’t think of changing our skin,” he said. “Change the world-that’s how we gotta think.”
Unhappiness is a dangerous thing, like carbon monoxide. You don’t smell it, you don’t taste it, it’s formless and colourless, but it poisons slowly. It seeps into every pore of your skin until one day your heart just stops beating.
..this feeling haunts and inhabits me, like a sickness. it covers me, like skin.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
But it seems to me that if God had intended for you to cover your face then, in His wisdom, He would have provided you with a flap of skin for the purpose.
Grace. I held on to that name. If I kept that in my head, I would be OK. Grace. I was shaking, shaking; my skin peeling away. Grace. My bones squeezed, pinched, pressed against my muscles. Grace. Her eyes held me even after I stopped feeling her fingers gripping my arms. Sam,” she said. “Don’t go.
I don’t judge those who can’t dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because I am fortunate in the tools of my escapes
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.
Technology has also had a big impact, especially on the bike. Now everything is tested aerodynamically, wind tunnels are used to optimize performance, and frames, wheels, water bottles are all tested. Even clothing, like my Castelli Stealth Top, is faster than skin.
There are an awful lot of things in the cut of street drugs that eventually make you sick. I reached a point where the skin around the edges of my fingernails used to hurt all the time. And it would peel away easily. Now, that must have been from some poison in the cut.
You can only really get under anybody’s skin if you are married to them.
One more thing,” Megan said, stopping Doug in his tracks. His shoulders slumped and he turned around. “What? You want my kidney?” “I want in on the next ultimate Frisbee game,” Megan said. Doug grinned. “You’re playing skins.” Megan grinned back. “We’ll see about that.
My makeup artist, Tonya Brewer, taught me the importance of moisturizing daily. Hydration is a must if you want pretty, dewy skin – which I love.
I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one’s skin, at the extreme corners of one’s eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.
Tommy [ Lee Jones] doesn’t suffer fools easily. I think everybody knows that, but I have great respect for someone that’s very direct and very honest. I don’t have thin skin so I’m okay with that.
In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can’t walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck — it rises.
This is my breakfast: Two poached eggs, turkey bacon, and a half avocado. The yolks in a poached egg are alkalizing. Avocados are a great source of fat and vitamin E; great for your skin. Its super light and not too heavy. Sometimes I like a little sweet as well, so I have a cup of plain yogurt with blueberries.
Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.
You have to surround yourself with really good people and have a very thick skin.
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.
It’s kind of a shock to your skin, changing climates. It’s new water, and new air quality.
When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That’s probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.
She must have really loved him to leave her home for the Seam. I try to remember that when all I can see is the woman who sat by, blank and unreachable, while her children turned to skin and bones. I try to forgive her for my father’s sake. But to be honest, I’m not the forgiving type.
Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability Nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff.
I’m the age I am, but my skin is in pretty good condition because I’ve been consistent with my skincare.
I can’t wait to find out how you taste, and you won’t want me to stop even after I’ve completely exhausted you. You’ll think you were on fire, your skin will burn. I’ll suck all of your juices out of you. And then I’ll drink your blood.
May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.
Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeous imagery of things that have never been and never will be? The most special effect in movies is always the human face when its mind is being changed.
What I’m trying to describe is that it’s impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else’s…. That somebody else’s tragedy is not the same as your own.
The greatest mania of all is passion: and I am a natural slave to passion: the balance between my brain and my soul and my body is as wild and delicate as the skin of a Ming vase.
I have thick skin. I’m not a baby. Nothing really offends me. If there’s something I think might offend me, I don’t listen to it.
Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don’t understand characters that aren’t ourselves and we aren’t willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It’s cartoons we’re making now. And that’s a shame.
I know for some girls, tight clothes make them feel like they can take on the world-and that’s fine too. But I don’t think that sexy only means showing skin: It’s all about wearing whatever makes you feel the most badass.
I went through a real punk stage-I had braids, red hair, pink hair, green hair, I cut it into a Mohawk, the lot. Then about five years ago, I dyed it dark and stayed out of the sun to get pale, because I hated looking like everyone else, all blonde hair and tanned skin.
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
When people see my makeup, they think all types of crazy things that I’m doing to my skin, but it’s makeup. It’s the weirdest thing. They’ll see contouring and think you had surgery on your nose. No. No. No. Look at ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ and you’ll see… you can make your nose look… what ever shape you want it.
Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
As for my ideal type, I like girls who don’t have powerful presence, and not self-centered. I’d like her to have a light skin, and a calm personality.
Dressed in the lion’s skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.
The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath
I think you sort of shed skins as you go along in life. You get into your 40s, and you feel like, ‘OK, no more pretending.’ You get to just be who you are.
With the Internet, we can communicate instantly across the globe, but the net also makes it possible for us to shrink ever further into our own skins – a state of being that neither suits the human temperament nor provides ground for further growth.
A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.
Whether you’re gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin’s a different color, it’s absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.
I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it’s degenerate, anyway, to wear animal skins…. So I went back to bluejeans after my degenerate period.
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.
This skin is a nuisance. This skin that separates you and me…it is a nuisance.
All minorities think they’re immune, but we’re absolutely part of the one in five that gets skin cancer! It’s a myth, and myths are meant to be debunked!
She touched the healthy folds of skin around the baby’s neck, wrists, and thighs, the dark lines crying for life made in his forehead, and thought how people start with wrinkles and end with wrinkles, grow into their skin and then live to grow out of it again.
Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.
I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It’s never an issue for me.
[Islam] is not measured by the color of his skin.
The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife, silver and bone. The screams of my little sister shatter mirrors.
Worried about a skin condition? Leap smartly into a bath of porridge.
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
If we really feel like we’re comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out that kind of third or fourth act of our life.
She was his and he was hers. They had under-the-skin privileges.
The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens Flowering over the skin.
And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur.
NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.
I’ve always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.
I love movies that have that resonating scare, that really get under your skin and make you think.
You and I don’t have the same genetics, we don’t live in the same places, but we can have the same basic attitude – being comfortable in our skin.
The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
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
Colin’s skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.
I really love Penelope Cruz, because she has the tan skin. I think it’s important to look at people who resemble you and see what looks good on them, and how they are doing their makeup or hair and how they carry themselves.
Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world’s body.
The wolf must die in his own skin.
You cannot have a healthy body without drinking a great deal of water. But remember, you can’t just drink a glass of water and tell a glass of water to please go straight to your skin and moisturize your complexion. Water has to be there all the time, doing what it does naturally in a healthy body.
‘Skins’ is actually a part of who I am as a person, so I was really focused on making sure the scripts and the story lines were right.
If beauty is only skin deep, look really, really hard.
I have a fantastic method for anti-ageing. It’s eating. Plumps out your skin beautifully.
She wasn’t happy, but then she wasn’t unhappy. She wasn’t anything. But I don’t believe anyone is a nothing. There has to be something inside, if only to keep the skin from collapsing. This vacant eye, listless hand, this damask cheek dusted like a doughnut with plastic powder, had to have a memory or a dream.
Why? You want to know why? Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels off, roll in coarse salt, then pull on long underwear woven from spun glass and razor wire. Over that goes your regular clothes, as long as they are tight.
Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don’t see somebody’s brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.
It’s as important to be well informed in this area, if you’re going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you’re going to do that.
A man’s name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him…but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.
The laughter in his deep-set black eyes, the feverish heat of his big hand around mine, the flash of his white teeth against his dark skin, his face stretching into the wide smile that had always been like a key to a secret door where only kindred spirits could enter.
It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.
I have lots of desires – good body, nice skin, cute, beautiful, knows how to cook, concentrates on her work, a girl that’s worth the respect.
Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? ‘I’ll take care of it in a moment.’ Of course you don’t! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.
I was raised with pretty thick skin. And I think people are hungry for politicians who aren’t afraid to say what they think and mean it.
When I meet a new person, something has to be a little off for me to consider them beautiful. It could be crooked teeth, or veins in their skin that are a little too visible, or a really dramatic lazy eye. The first guy I ever kissed had a water head.
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
Life is easier when you are comfortable in your own skin.
As Conservatives, We Don’t Care About The Color of Your Skin, We Care About The Color of Our Flag
Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.
I thought I am kissing pain and pain belongs to You as happiness never does. I love You in Your pain. I could almost taste metal and salt in the skin, and I thought, How good you are. You might have killed us with happiness, but You let us be with You in pain.
I don’t see my skin aging. I see my skin looking as good, or better, than it did ten years ago…and that makes me smile.
You must have to want it so badly, if there is any way you can live without it, get out of it. Being an unsuccessful actor is like having a skin disease. Make sure your passion is not misplaced.
This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its devaluation according to how dark one is and the impact that has on people who are dedicated to the privileges of certain levels of skin color.
Latin beauty means being proud of yourself and your culture; being sophisticated and beautiful; and embracing your complexion – whether you have light or dark skin – because it’s gorgeous. We’re such a beautiful rainbow of women.
He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.
I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a landscape with just your mind, and not your body, it becomes like a picture or representation, not something you really engage with.
The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events–that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of our own bodies–and will end in destroying the very environment from which we emerge and upon which our whole life depends.
Now, personally, I am baffled by the concept of racial prejudice. Why hate someone based on the color of their skin when, if you take the time to get to know them as a human being, you can find so many other things to hate them for?
Live like a mud-fish: its skin is bright and shiny even though it lives in mud.
What’s weird about the cinema business is that you have to have a thick skin while remaining vulnerable as an artist. It comes with time. You get dumped, your heart gets broken.
Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body’s new membrane of existence.
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.
If truth were a crayon and it was up to me to put a wrapper on it and name it’s color, I know just what I would call it-dinosaur skin.
[O]nce you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.” – The Skin Horse from The Velveteen Rabbit
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.
Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock… … Common, to see the offspring they had made; The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
That’s the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless. Does it have to be that way? No. We just have to focus on what the turkey is and what the turkey needs.
You lay your hand against his skin and just rib his back. Blow into his ear. Press that baby up against your own skin and walk outside with him, where the night air will sourround him, and moonlight fall on his face. Whistle, maybe. Dance. Hum. Pray. (how to calm a crying baby)
I keep telling everyone that I want to start a revolution but no one is taking me seriously. If I had black skin and an afro, would you take me seriously? If I was an Arab waving a hand grenade, would you take me seriously?
Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.
Punk, I see you as a hypocritical, manipulative waste of skin.
Sometimes you do absolutely know there’s something there. You feel it in your bones. I actually literally feel it on my skin sometimes. I do get goosebumps. There are times when you go oh God, that works that moment! But you find you take it apart again.
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.
If we are not peaceful, if we are not feeling well in our skin, we cannot demonstrate real peace, and we cannot raise our children well either.
I use Ahava skincare, which is natural line from Israel and is made from minerals from the Dead Sea. I have the most sensitive skin.
Imagine a guy. He’s a little taller than you, with perfect skin, skin that just screams “touch me!” and dark hair and gorgeous blue eyes and he looks so sweet and he is sweet. And then have him blush a little.
If you’re comfortable in your own skin, you will feel beautiful – and look beautiful to others, too.
This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in the skin of it, smoking too much and growing too thin and having stray thoughts of jumping from my balcony like a tortured heroine in a Russian novel.
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.
Gleaming skin; a plump elongated shape: the eggplant is a vegetable you’d want to caress with your eyes and fingers, even if you didn’t know its luscious flavor.
Or had she always loved him? It’s likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn’t matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.
I love being natural. I never feel more beautiful then after I’ve been to the beach and my hair’s just a crazy mess of salt curls, or when I’ve just been outside all day hiking. I feel like my skin is at its most beautiful during those times, too – so I try not to do a lot.
We’re all brothers and sisters. It doesn’t matter what language you speak or what color your skin is.
I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my life, out of my skin.
Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.
The president of the United States is a pretty important position, and it’s the ideas and policies that matter to me, not the color of their skin.
Some of these people make my skin crawl.
In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute – a white skin.
What happens is that in each clump you’ve got the gelatinization of starches, which happens very quickly at the surface of the clump and it kind of forms a protective skin around this dry hunk of flour.
He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints.
If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green frog skin, by people who are mindful of their own self, forgetting about the wants of others.
Dan instantly recognized the angry scratch that stretched from the corner of Ian’s eye all the way along the olive skin to his chin. “Have you been messing with Saladin?” “No. Saladin has been messing with me,” Ian shot back. “He isn’t big on Lucians,” Dan explained. “Animals are really good judges of character.
My characters are more like men than these real men are, see. They’re rough and rude, they got hands and they got bellies. They hate and they lust; break the skin of civilization and you find the ape, roaring and red-handed.
I still don’t get stopped about anything else anywhere near as much as ‘Skins.’ The remarkable thing that I’ve noticed is how far that show has traveled: it’s aired all over the world.
Fur only looks good on its original owner. Be comfortable in your own skin, and let animals keep theirs.
My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.
Vampires have bright eyes glistening white teeth unnaturally smooth skin and a certain animal magnetism. If they aren’t pretty they starve. It’s sort of like life in Los Angeles.
When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.
Jesus resisted the temptation of outrage and the quick fix of condemnation. He spent most of his time preparing wineskins before pouring new wine into them. Our tendency is to start pouring the wine into skins that will only burst.
they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly
Elemis Pro-Collagen Marine Cream – I think it’s fantastic.В The same girl has been doing my make-up for 12 years and she says my skin’s never looked so good.
What is a house but a bigger skin, and a neighborhood map but the world’s skin ever expanding?
The human being is a skin-covered petrie dish.
Ah, the feeling you get holding a diamond in your hand! It seems to bore into your skin, to burn, to breathe. It’s like holding a bit of the moon in your hand.
When I hit the skins they all say, ‘Damn Kane…
You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!’
You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!’
I’ve always been really, really aware of my insecurities – really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
Being able to choose the skin I live in was the draw of fashion.
A lot of the exercise of embracing identity as a political affirmation is not just simply parked in the question of skin color or culture, but more it is a political affirmation with all these implications and more.
As an actor, throughout three years, I’ve become more comfortable within my own skin and confident.
I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.
I’m not talking ideas, or even presentation. It’s like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player – like your skin or your heart.
The great thing about ‘Skins’ is that it’s not ‘90210.’ We don’t have to look stick-thin and ripped. Those shows send out the wrong messages by showing body-perfect people but not mentioning that they spend four hours a day in the gym to look that way.
In peace and silence, the skin of the ‘I’ dissolves and the inner and the outer become one.
To be comfortable in your skin was the biggest topic for me because I’m somebody who’s always judged just by how I look. I wanted to get the message across that you don’t have to hide yourself or be glamorous, just be you.
My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason.
I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really are and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are.
There’s something magical about a woman who feels comfortable in her own skin.
I use color as my chief guide. But I always squeeze an avocado – you want the fruit to feel close to the skin. If you can feel a separation, the avocado is past its prime. The avocado should have a little give, but not much.
There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path; already you’re the monarch of your own skin – your inviolable freedom waits to be completed only by the love of other monarchs: a politics of dream, urgent as the blueness of sky.
Of course, I love everyone I meet. How could I fail to! Within everyone is the spark of God. I am not concerned with racial or ethnic background or the color of one’s skin; all people look to me like shining lights! I see in all creatures the reflections of God. All people are my kinfolk – people to me are beautiful!
I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.
When you see deterioration in the skin or the hair, you are having problems with the subtle body. You’re taking in too much bad energy, usually from people, or you’re thinking too many negative thoughts. You are pulling an energy that is not suitable for the human form.
I just think fashion is about enjoying yourself and being comfortable in your skin and allowing you to be you – all the way live.
When I read a script, I’ll have a very visceral gut reaction to what does this mean to me? How does she feel in my skin? Could I play this role?
My advice: Don’t waste so much time worrying about your skin or your weight. Develop what you do, what you put your hands on in the world.
You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.
The guitar’s still around me. I slip it off and put it down. I want to feel him. To feel his breath on my neck. The warmth of his skin. To feel something other than sadness. Hold me, I tell him silently. Hold me here. To this place. This life. Make me want you. Want this. Want something. Please
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
The kitchen, reasonably enough, was the scene of my first gastronomic adventure. I was on all fours. I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all. It must have marked me for life, for I have never ceased to love the hearty flavor of raw onions.
The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.
In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.
There walked warlocks in all their bat-winged, cat-eyed glory, and here, as they swung out over the river, she saw the darting flash of multicolored tails under the silvery skin of the water, the shimmer of long, pearl-strewn hair, and heard the high, rippling laughter of the mermaids.
I think it’s just getting comfortable in New York City, comfortable in your own skin.
Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and – as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis – emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.
My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don’t really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.
In becoming a whole person, the grateful leper was healed inside as well as on the outside. That day nine lepers were healed skin deep, but only one had the faith to be made whole. The tenth leper [was] changed eternally by [his] faith in the Savior and the healing power of his atonement.
I’m very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.
I have a horror of the word ‘flesh’, which has become so shopworn.Why not ‘meat’whilethey’re about it? What I like is skin, a young girl’s skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation.
I hate to try to be that person in my own skin, in my own way, in my own head, not through exercises or anything else, just by, I guess, belief, concentration.
I don’t think there is a need of the categorization ‘woman writing’. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk into the world of words; I believe that writers ought to be able to slip under the skins of both men and women. Only then will the writing and the characters have credibility and strength.
The best herb I smoke in Jamaica and Africa. African – Rasclot! Them people cure it in a banana. In a banana skin. A green banana. They wrap it up in a banana so when you get it, it compressed and, I’ll tell you, it great! Blood clot! In Nigeria and Ghana, love that herb! Good herb, mon.
It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.
It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,
That lays eggs under your skin.
That lays eggs under your skin.
No, I like to wear as least amount of makeup as I can during my everyday life because I’m just all about keeping my skin healthy and hydrated and I love to laugh and have a great time and smile – that’s when I feel the most pretty so I just want to make sure that I stay happy.
APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. “The Mad Philosopher,” 1697
I don’t like basements, but definitely basements could be poems. Not fond of skin diseases, but again, there’s a pattern. Probably anything could be a poem.
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
Photography’s a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the uniform, the fishing vest, and all the Nikons, that that makes them a photographer. But it doesn’t. It’s not just seeing. It’s feeling.
When you hear the word tear gas you think, well, your eyes will burn and that’s it. But that whole feeling of your whole skin burning, that you can’t breathe, you can’t inhale, you feel suffocated – it’s a very, very terrifying experience.
I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.
Mr. D, wearing his leopard-skin jogging suit and rummaging through the refrigerator. He looked up lazily. “Do you mind?” Where’s Chiron!” I shouted. How rude.” Mr. D took a swig from a jug of grape juice. “Is that how you say hello?” Hello,” I amended. “We’re about to die! Where’s Chiron?
Mama tied a blindfold over my eyes. The next thing I felt my flesh was being cut away. I heard the blade sawing back and forth through my skin. The pain between my legs was so intense I wished I would die.
Nothing is more American than stuffing your face with loaded potato skins while drinking loaded mudslides.
I had an amazing experience doing ‘Skins.’ It was the first acting I’d ever done in my entire life, so I had to learn on set for those two years. I had to keep my head screwed on and learn from the other cast.
Charlie took my hand and, in a symbol as old as the world, placed it in Edward’s. I touched the cool miracle of his skin, and I was home.
Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin–or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!
The entire ‘my art is better than your art’ thing really gets under my skin. The fact of the matter is: Your art IS better than my art… at being what it is. So what? It just so happens that my art is better than your art, at being what it is.
A person who looks different all the time frightens me. Only one animal changes its skin: the snake.
I felt the breath of God go cold on my skin.
I think a stalwart peasant in sheep-skin coat, born on the soil, whose forefathers have been farmers for ten generations, with a stout wife and a half dozen children, is good quality
I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan.
I owe the quality of my skin to my cosmetic surgeon.
My wish was to finish my career at Arsenal, but there are always banana skins.
However in the world did her skin come green?” Nanny wondered, stupidly, for Melena blanched and Frex reddened, and the baby held her breath as if trying to turn blue to please them all. Nanny had to slap her to make her breath again.
My mom always told me drinking water was the most important skin care tip. I also think the less you do to your skin the better. I’m a fan of simple and natural products.
Every single pore – not on the men, but on the women – is scrutinized, so I am really grateful that I feel very confident in my own skin.
Leaders need to cultivate two things: a righteous heart and a rhinoceros skin.
Recently, I kind of found that if I just step into my own skin and relax and just walk like I’m just walking down the street, it always looks better than if you try too many cool moves.
Plastic surgery is such a displacement. If people feel good in their skin, then they’re beautiful, end of story.
There’s more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn’t see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.
That’s a big nose,” he croaked and instantly realized he shouldn’t have said something so impolite. I must be light headed, e thought. But the face smiled. The teeth seemed inordinatley white against the dark beard and skin. The only one I have,” he said.
Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It’s still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.
There’s art that I think is pretty silly, but it doesn’t get under my skin like it used to.
Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
I keep my skin – especially on my face and neck – out of the sun. My brother died of melanoma eight years ago, and I’ve got SPF on all the time, 24-7. It makes you realize, the sun is a wonderful thing, but it can be a very devastating thing. So sunscreen is key, and a lot of laughter, too.
There are technical tricks that may help you create more effective characters. My approach to characterization is not at all technical. I can’t really analyze how I do it, but I am sure of one thing. To write convincing characters, you must possess the ability to think yourself into someone else’s skin.
Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.
Peeling off my skin / leaving just my eyes behind / You see inside my head / Still know that you are mine.
Some women,” Dahariel said in that same hard tone devoid of any hint of humanity, “get under a man’s skin until digging them out makes you bleed.
I don’t want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that’s under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.
I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the cover of Elle magazine and thinks – oh, how much better a handsome guy like you would look, David, without all those dumb ink stains stitched into your skin.
Shed your mortal skin and let me take you beneath the waves.
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness – just a drop of it – does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.
Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.
Aside from eating healthy and taking care of my body, I’ve always been passionate about skincare. It’s an essential part of my daily regimen, which is why I decided to create my own skincare line, DEVONNE by Demi. When my skin is clean, I feel my best!
I mean, when you grow up dancing, you have to become very comfortable in your own skin.
I like Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream, as its great for soothing dry skin and adding shine. I use it instead of balm, too.
My skin’s too white.” she said. Says who, Snow White?” he said, touching her cheek lightly with one hand.
I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought – that someone would affect you so deeply they’d always be a part of you.
What I do for a living means that people look at me. As an actress, you are scrutinized. You are not just dealing with your looks privately, you are on display. I have never been 100 percent comfortable in my own skin. I go through different phases. But I don’t feel beautiful all the time, no.
My type, which I didnt realize until somebody pointed out to me, apparently is brunettes with darker skin tones, but that is about it as far as aesthetically.
This was what she needed… the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.
Silk didn’t care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I’d earned my right to be paranoid.
I put a What Would Jesus Do bracelet on my Jewish friend’s wrist and it burned his skin. He threw it on the ground, it turned into a serpent, we both started laughing. We left it there, we hate snakes. We think they’re slimy, even though we know they’re not.
In Hollywood if you’re good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you’re short and fat, it’s a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already
I feel sexy when I get out of the tub – your skin is fresh and you’ve put up your hair without looking.
Your skin’s so fair its not fair
True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter.
No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.
Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or MarГa, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under rain. They have spoken to me of Venezuelas, of Chiles and Paraguays; I have no idea what they are saying. I know only the skin of the earth and I know it has no name.
If i’m going to survive, it won’t be because i have a lion-skin cloak. I’m not Hercules.
A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.
Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It’s hard to be really naked. You have to work hard at it. Just getting into a bath isn’t being naked, not really. It’s just showing skin.
Owning your curves means being confident – actually being confident – in your own skin.
Don’t be polite.
Bite in.
Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin.
It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.
You do not need a knife or fork or spoon.
For there is no core
or stem
or rind
or pit
or seed
or skin
to throw away.
Bite in.
Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin.
It is ready and ripe now, whenever you are.
You do not need a knife or fork or spoon.
For there is no core
or stem
or rind
or pit
or seed
or skin
to throw away.
I am a world-class weenie when it comes to letting people stick needles into me. My subconscious mind firmly believes that if God had wanted us to have direct access to our bloodstreams, He would have equipped our skin with small, clearly marked doors.
The range of human skin colours is quite narrow when you think about it – and I do – and subtle – beige, pink, white, tan, taup.
When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.
In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man’s skin, – seven or eight ancestors at least, and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.
In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.
Botox, I think, is poison, I would never put it into my face, and I’m needle-phobic. I spend a lot of time keeping my face out of the sun and taking care of my skin and wearing make-up.
If you’re successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you’re unsuccessful it’s worse than having a skin disease.
I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism.
Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one’s bones and cragginess of one’s once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it.
We’ll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we’re young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We’ll grow until we’re braver. We’ll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles and our hair goes white, and until our hearts decide, at last, that it’s time to stop.
We are all brothers under the skin – and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.
I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I’m an avid reader of every women’s health newsletter from every hospital in the country.
I support all people on earth
who have bodies like and unlike my body,
skins and moles and old scars,
secret and public hair,
crooked toes. I support
those who have done nothing large.
who have bodies like and unlike my body,
skins and moles and old scars,
secret and public hair,
crooked toes. I support
those who have done nothing large.
The color of somebody’s skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox’s or bear’s, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
I’ve always cared about the world. That’s never been an issue. But with learning how to smile, it’s been learning how to feel comfortable within my own skin, and to feel accepted, and to feel empowered, and to feel worthy.
The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.
Mentally strong people are comfortable in their own skin.
I’ll go to Tracie Martyn about a week before and get the Resculpting Facial. It makes you look brighter, healthier… like you got some extra rest. I’m 33 now and need to treat my skin, otherwise it doesn’t look fresh.
The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn’t touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.
It is a myth that style can’t be learnt. It’s all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing colours that suit your skin tone.
Beauty is only skin deep.
You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.
It’s an odd kind of feeling because it sort of reminds me of being five again. When you’re a five-year-old, you don’t pay any attention to what anyone thinks of you. You just sort of are in your skin.
Before the boiling of blood and the searing of skin comes the secret catastrophe: Before Life on Earth becomes finally merely impossible, it will for a long time before have become completely unbearable.
Some exfoliates have rocks in them and it makes your skin really smooth, and cat litter is a good substitute. I haven’t broke out at all yet!
Beauty lies mainly, above all, in personality, not in the skin.
For me especially, I travel a lot, and with the weather change and everything, my skin gets dehydrated very fast.
Cleanses and products don’t make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you’re set. My makeup artist, Melanie Iglesias, couldn’t figure out why my skin looks so good. I think it’s because I’m happy!
A novelist is a person who lives in other people’s skins.
Women think black is the most flattering color, but they’re wrong. Pink adds a cosmetic-like radiance and warmth. Black drains the skin of color; pink delights the eye.
You are God’s dream with skin on
I already had three strikes against me. One, I have light skin. Two, I’m from Miami, which wasn’t getting looked at at the time. Three, I’m Cuban. But now, I’ve made everything that stacked against me into a virtue.
I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say deliver me from clever arts, I say deliver me from clear skin and perfect teeth,I say you have to give up! I say evolve, and let the chips fall where they may!
There`s a certain attitude toward being presidential that is now going away and I think the other thing we`re seeing is really a moment where I think Republicans are waking up to the fact that they should have been doing this a lot earlier. They should have been trying to get under Donald Trump`s skin a lot earlier.
Religion and love don’t have a price, don’t have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.
I love the smell of a mans skin.
Because of all the cosmetic services like skin whitening and hair bleaching, there is a lot that people can do to change their appearance without having actual surgery. It’s quite common in Thailand and Korea and Japan.
Shedding off one more layer of skin, Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.
I love chicken. I love chicken products: fried chicken, roasted chicken, chicken nuggets – whatever. And going to Japan, I would see that these chicken were smoked and then grilled and then have this amazing crispy skin.
When I was nine, I was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat and was prescribed beta blockers, which had the side effect of turning my skin green. Looking like Shrek’s little sister at school wasn’t the easiest thing.
People don’t associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.
I have more energy to run after our four children. Weight loss and great skin were a bonus!
I have tough skin. I don’t really read any of the comments unless they are positive. I don’t accept that much negativity in my life. It’s not an option.
Sometimes I worry I’m not going to be the best parent because if my baby gets a skin fungus I might sell him at a garage sale.
Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep.
I cheat my boys every chance I get. I trade with the boys and skin ’em and I just beat ’em every time I can. I want to make ’em sharp.
It’s important to leave your face without makeup for a while after waking up…Let your skin breathe a while before applying your makeup, even if it means waking up a bit earlier.
Your skin is your largest organ, and it wants to breathe. There are so many times, like Fashion Week, when you [need to] think about all the stuff your skin and body have absorbed through makeup and products and all this stuff.
It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.
…catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny, in which the phenotype passes through previous fashion stages? Soon there will be gaiters and gloves…I will probably die, he thinks, clad in animal skins.
Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can’t understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?
Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.
The vertical lines that run down his forearms are the most disturbing, thick and jagged as if someone took a razor to his skin. I wish I could run my fingers along them and remove the pain and memories that are attached to them.
How beautiful an old woman’s skin is! All those wrinkles!
There are people who were gay and lived the gay lifestyle and aren’t anymore. I don’t know if that’s the similar situation or that’s the case for anyone that’s black. It’s a behavioral issue as opposed to a color of the skin issue, and that’s the diff for serving in the military.
I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that ‘drug’ and go along with that.
I have huge admiration for people who think like the effective altruist, who try to rationally think about how they can change the world for the better, and who try not to be swayed by irrational considerations, such as skin color or whether or not someone lives in the same neighborhood.
Those people that have hardened to rejection or hardened to life in general, it’s pretty hard to feel them. You know, to look at their eyes on screen and feel them. I guess that’s specifically talking about actors, but I think that’s probably [true] in general. You want to keep your skin thin.
It will be readily admitted that brown tints have never coursed beneath our skin; it will be discovered that yellow shines forth in our flesh, that red blazes, and that green, blue and violet dance upon it with untold charms, voluptuous and caressing.
His mouth is on me, his hands, I can’t wait and he’s moving, already, love, it’s been so long, I’m alive in my skin, again, arms around him, falling and water softly everywhere, never-ending.
Before you write – remember that every speech has something of ‘you’ in the writing. Don’t take that away when you write. Be yourself. Be comfortable in your own skin.
Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.
I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.
Race is a universal flaw in humanity. So yes, I’ve been in many situations where I’ve felt like the outsider because of the color of my skin.
One thing I’ve learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.
Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel more skins than Idaho potato
Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn’t really scare me. I’d say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don’t know what it is. Is there something there or not?
I keep wanting people to realize that there needs to be a tidal wave of peace and love. People should be treated with love and respect regardless of the color of their skin or their sexual preference. We need to keep saying that as much as we can and as loud as we can.
Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.
I think our skin clears up and we’re nicer when you are in love.
A very common thing these days is people show up and they ask us in the band to sign with a Sharpie right on their skin and they go get it tattooed the next day. Then they’ll show up at another show and they’ll have their tattoo.
The extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary.
I stepped closer to him and lowered my voice. ‘If you could change one thing, what would it be?’ He pulled the sheep pendant from his pocket. A question filled his eyes. I held out my hand. Riley placed it in my palm and I curled my finger around the necklace, pressing the metal into my skin.
I’m just skin covering coffee and some real nervous teeth.
I much condole with you on your late loss… pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;–Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.
On ‘Skins,’ we only ever filmed for a couple of months in the summer. When I wasn’t on set, I was doing my normal things.
I think now that I’m in the autumn of my life, and I’m getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don’t think I was that comfortable in my own skin.
Abandonment doesn’t have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It’s like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body.
People’s hands fascinate me. It’s tempting to look at a businessman’s left hand and see if there’s an indentation from a missing wedding ring. Or maybe there’s a tan line and the skin is pressed down where’s he’s worked a ring off his finger.
I want to make women laugh. I want to make them feel beautiful in their own skin. I want to empower them to use their voice and not apologize.
Beyond [Barack Obama] having made history as the first African-American president, I hope that he gets re-elected for what he does while in office, not for his skin color. I certainly believe he has the capacity.
What’s great about ‘Skins’ is that the characters are exactly like people around you.
Just because we’re sisters under the skin doesn’t mean we’ve got much in common.
Most of us in the media are, by and large, sentimental about our national identity, but comfortable enough in our skins as Indians, to be deeply self-critical. The problem arises when loyalty to India gets mixed up with loyalty to the government of the day.
We are all brothers and sisters under the skin and above it . . . it’s super important that we stop lobbing bombs over the top of the wall and start trying to dismantle it, so that we can say ‘hi’ to whoever is on the other side, whether the divide is religious or nationalistic or politic or economic.
There’s such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it’s like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.
Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.
Worried about dry skin? Concerned about lines and wrinkles? Then visit a burns unit and get some perspective.
The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.
I tell you what, I don’t like a hostile red skin any more than you do. And when they are hostile, I’ve fought ’em, hard as any man. But I never yet drew a bead on a squaw or papoose, and I despise the man who would.
I notice if I’m too fat or if I’m too ugly or there’s skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.
I put myself out there; it’s part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
To be a good shepherd is to shear the flock, not skin it!
My shoots are very much about skin, so I’m an exfoliating and moisturizing nut. I fly so much, so I take my makeup off as soon as I get on the airplane. I look at my watch every half hour and moisturize.
With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.
Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture!
Youth, then, once ballyhooed as the epicenter of fun, hot dogs, hot sex, and marvelous dope-smoking good times, is now defined as follows: that period before death, characterized by smooth skin and ill-formed ideas.
When you’re younger, you don’t believe in it, but it’s really so important to stay out the of sun as much as you can. Like if you wanna get tan, you can get a spray tan and not get skin cancer.
With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of ear-shapes and chin shapes, skin colour and hairdo… that was one of just many examples where we really thought, perhaps this isn’t going to work.
Greatness has nothing to do with diversity, skin color, race, ethnicity, nothing to do with it.
Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.
I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin. I want.
There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.
Well-being is how I feel in my skin, not about how other people are looking at me and what they see… its what I feel like.
Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.
We’ve got a [Canadian] prime minister who seems to be intent on destroying our health system and education system. But I have gotten a thicker skin. I can get angry about these things without feeling like vomiting, if you know what I mean.
Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
You’ve got to be happy in your own skin.
‘Skins’ was never about sending a message. It was showing you everything there was and letting you make a decision.
The Indians the needed some food, and some skins for a roof. They only took what they needed, baby, millions of buffalo were the proof.
I still wrestle with the catharsis of acting. I don’t end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that I don’t always feel good.
What acting means is that you’ve got to get out of your own skin.
I can’t see any difference in government between Bush and Obama apart from the color of their skin.
The older you get, the more comfortable you get in your own skin. You find yourself.
I’ll usually run an ice-cube over my skin to close all the pores. That’s pretty much my daily routine.
I’m okay in my skin, you know… I’m okay with who I am.
Milk is about helping guys feel good about their skin and relaxed about taking care of it.
As soon as the seal was clear of the water, it reared up and its skin slipped down to the sand. What had been a seal was a white-skinned boy
My grandmother is basically blind, but she can make out the lighter parts, like my skin and hair. She says, ‘I can see you, because you have no pants on.’ So I’ll continue to wear no pants so that my grandma can see me.
I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me all the time. It’s not getting easier; if anything, it’s always right on the edge of my skin.
I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.
As a teen, I had no idea what the self was. Changing skin like a chameleon came naturally to me, but the self felt like a plastic chair in an airport where I’d have to sit and wait for the next radical character to define who I’d be that season. Acting grabbed me by the gut.
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. –
Landscape is my religion. …God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.
Evie didn’t mind yelling, but she hated feeling judged. It got under her skin and made her feel small and ugly and unfixable.
Bosnia is under my skin. It’s the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and the skin of an elephant.
When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.
Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!
Comedy is helping a lot at the moment. It also seems to be getting under Trump’s skin and revealing a lot about the kind of thin-skinned fool that he is.
The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.
Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.
I admit it: I am louder than the average human being and have no fear of speaking my mind. These traits don’t come from the color of my skin but from an unwavering belief in my own intelligence.
I feel weird if I can’t move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.
I have campaigned all over the state of South Carolina. It is the friendliest state in the country. And truly here people judge you by the content of your character not the color of your skin.
We feel cold, but we don’t mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn’t feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It’s worth being cold for that.
Less is more. I think that if you try to put too many beauty products on, you’re probably gonna get used to it. Your skin is not supposed to be covered with a bunch of stuff, so I think that less is definitely more.
‘Skins’ is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it’s all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it’s a good show because it’s come from a very real place, and there’s a lot of young people involved in the writing.
I might have lost some skin, but I got kissed by a beautiful woman who was happy to see me. I gotta say that’s pretty epic in my book. Definitely not a worst-case day here.” – Sundown
You are your father’s daughter,’ he said, the skin around his eyes tightening. ‘Trent is his father’s son. Apart, you are annoying. Together…you have the potential to be a problem.
The vampire bible, bound in human skin, written in blood, and full of prophecies that were never wrong. Trouble was, if you read the thing too long, it drove you nuts. Not “I’m having a bad day and feel bitchy” nuts or PMS nuts. “I think I’ll commit felony assault on my friends and rape my boyfriend” nuts.
I like to dry brush which is really detoxifying for the skin. Exercise is also really important for me for balance and to get those endorphins going.
I try and stay out of the sun for the most part. I wear a hat. I play golf. And I wear a hat. But I’ve had no problem – no major problem – but certainly no problem with skin.
Musically, he was like an old man in a boy’s skin.
My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.
Sometimes when I travel from climate to climate, my skin can change very drastically because I go from hot to cold. I get dry like everybody else – from planes.
Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious…. The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person’s skin had burned off.
Wonder in everything No matter how great or small… Same thing that’s scrawled across the stars Is written under our skin… There’s a time to search for understanding Sometimes you just got to sing New horizons, new horizon within
My tattoos are like a scrapbook of my life. Sometimes you don’t feel comfortable in your own skin, so covering it up with pictures helps
No, not like this, when I have not seen you without your skin on, when I know nothing, when I am not safe. Not you, whose name all my nightmares know.
guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.
The Stormlight rising from his exposed skin was enough to illuminate the chasm, and it cast shadows on the walls as he ran. Those seemed to become figures, crafted by the bones and branches stretching from the heaps on the ground. Bodies and souls. His movement made the shadows twist, as if turning to regard him.
Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin
Part of you is the wind,” he murmured. “Oui, that is true. But even the wind sometimes rests.” Shaking her head, she slid her hand around the back of his neck, soaking in the intrinsically male heat of his skin. “Then consider me an endless storm.
My skin doesn’t look as good when I’m not eating enough fruits and vegetables, so I try to eat plenty.
I hardly wear any makeup. TV and film makeup is very heavy, so it’s nice to give my skin a break when I’m not filming. And I’m really grungy, probably too much so. Although when I go out, I love to dress very glamorous and quite sexy.
What do you want?” “You,” he said, his voice lowering an octave. “I want you, Dutch, body and soul. I want you in my bed every night. I want you there when I wake up in the morning. I want your clothes strung across my apartment and your scent on my skin.
All the beauty of the world, ’tis but skin deep.
How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union of genes? Who decided that one single solitary soul deserved skin like that? It was so fundamentally unfair.(Chasing Harry Winston)
… all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
It is not so much light that falls over the world extended by your body its suffocating snow, as brightness, pouring itself out of you, as if you were burning inside. Under your skin the moon is alive.
I think great acting is about inhabiting a skin and transforming yourself.
How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.
Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.
Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.
The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
I was turned down by every record label in L.A. Perseverance is three quarters of the game. Talent’s only a quarter. Being able to withstand the word ‘no’ over and over can build you a pretty tough skin. I knew if I just kept at it, at the very least I’d get better at my craft.
It’s hard… to shake off something that’s already under your skin.
The central attitudes driving the Water Torturer are:
You are crazy. You fly off the handle over nothing.
I can easily convince other people that you’re the one who is messed up.
As long as I’m calm, you can’t call anything I do abusive, no matter how cruel.
I know exactly how to get under your skin.
You are crazy. You fly off the handle over nothing.
I can easily convince other people that you’re the one who is messed up.
As long as I’m calm, you can’t call anything I do abusive, no matter how cruel.
I know exactly how to get under your skin.
Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.
These stories about my intellectual capacity really get under my skin. You know, for a while I even thought my staff believed it. There on my schedule first thing every morning it said, ‘Intelligence Briefing.’
When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
I’m not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice… It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
That’s what I do. I get in and get under people’s skin and all that stuff. But you will remember me – and that’s all that matters.
The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don’t tell you what to say.
My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.
I slather Egyptian Magic cream all over my face on overnight flights to keep my skin hydrated.
Her skin was white as leprosy.
With the red hair, you get the white skin; it’s a package deal. The cons are that you never look particularly attractive on the beach. The pros are in a softly lit room, you look pretty.
If zipper catches skin, I’ll know I had it out when I should a kept it in.
Through music you learn not to care about the color of someone’s skin.
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
I didn’t tell anyone in school that I was going to be in ‘Skins.’ I was terrified of them putting me down.
Years wrinkle the skin. Giving up wrinkles the soul.
Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently – skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.
Teen Moms! I started watching them like the first two seasons, and I stopped. I stopped because they are too young. I feel sorry for them. And I didnt watch that show Hoarders. That thing would made my skin crawl.
And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, “My need is more desperate!” and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.
It was just the sort of yatch you’d expect a rock promoter to have. Mirrored ceilings, marble, Jacuzzis and leopard-skin everything, it made the merely vulgar seem commonplace.
As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (…) You don’t pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.
Sure, being good at your job is really important, but in acting, so much of the decision’s already made the minute you walk in the room because they’re like, ‘His hair’s good or she’s got the right skin color’ or whatever. It’s so random, but it’s so physically oriented.
‘Skins’ was a fun role and I enjoyed it.
… Rebel against the flesh and bone,
The word of the blood, the wily skin,
And the maggot no man can slay.
The word of the blood, the wily skin,
And the maggot no man can slay.
My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don’t be ridiculous. Maybe it’s because I’m British. To me, Julia Roberts, that’s a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!
Actions speak louder than words, and a smile says, ‘I like you. You make me happy. I am glad to see you.’ That is why dogs make such a hit. They are so glad to see us that they almost jump out of their skins. So, naturally, we are glad to see them.
When she looked in the mirror these days, she saw someone she didn’t recognize…She saw an old woman trying to be beautiful, her skin dry and her wrinkles like cracks. She looked like a very well-dressed winter apple.
When a child is born into this world it has no concept of the tone the skin is living in.
A great Dermalogica facial every few weeks, and lots of sleep over the weekend are essentials. I also drink lots of water which really helps to hydrate the skin and keep it looking fresh.
Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.
I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they’re going to look like. So it’s kind of like that’s my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
I use products from my dermatologist but the best things you can do for your skin, are not smoke always use sunscreen and drink a lot of water.
You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there’s not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin.
Above us, the wind blew and the branching shadows rearranged themselves on our skin. Gus squeezed my hand. “It is a good life, Hazel Grace.
There’s a power that comes with silence. I had grown to fear the unsaid thing. So it felt like a release to say it-to admit that the risk wasn’t just inside our walls-it was inside my skin. I was willing to claw, scratch, and bleed until I’d found it.
My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.
Our skin is what stands between us and the world.
The development of a long-term sterilizing capsule that could be implanted under the skin and removed when pregnancy is desired opens additional possibilities for coercive fertility control. The capsule could be implanted at puberty and might be removable, with official permission, for a limited number of births.
That’s good advice for any young person to remember who aspires to leadership in corporate or public life. Develop a thick skin when it comes to the press. Remember you’re never as bad-or as good-as the press says you are.
In order to achieve victory you must place yourself in your opponent’s skin. If you don’t understand yourself, you will lose one hundred percent of the time. If you understand yourself, you will win fifty percent of the time. If you understand yourself and your opponent, you will win one hundred percent of the time.
But this is Miami, you can’t come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you’re all covered up in this heat, you’re gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It’s sweaty in Miami – but the diamonds will keep me cool.
Feel the rain on your skin, no one else can feel it for you.
…and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered a gasp for breath It flushed her amber skin with the blood of its bloom.
I have two Filipino nannies who have British passport and not me. I don’t need British passport. When you were running around in an animal skin, my ancestors were building the pyramids.
I’m not the classic type – fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I’m talking about now.
I would say I spend about an hour a day cleansing and moisturising after all of the make-up I’ve worn on jobs, and on weekends I tend to go bare-faced to give my skin a bit of a break.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly lies to the bone. Beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own! Create and cultivate Inner Beauty that never fades away but grows and matures with Time!
In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.
Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.
You would think that Freddy Couples-Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I’ll tell you in skins, it’s a matter of just hitting it at the right time.
Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star.
The heart never knows the colour of the skin
Is it my fault if I do not look like an English girl and I do not talk like a Nigerian? Well, who says an English girl must have skin as pale as the clouds that float across her summers? Who says a Nigerian girl must speak in fallen English…?
Then I placed the blade next to the skin on my palm. A tingle arched across my scalp. The floor tipped up at me and my body spilled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next.
If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man’s skin, then the racists have been right all along.
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.
Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God’s plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.
My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It’s something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.
It is very important not to become hard. The artist must always have one skin too few in comparison to other people, so you feel the slightest wind.
‘Skins’ was the university for me. It was the best years of my life, really. We were all just a bunch of friends.
You gotta be comfortable in your own skin, man. I am, yaknow. Like I said, I am what I am, b. I’m not a gangster, namean. I ain’t no killer. Have I used a gun before? Yeah but, just because you use a gun, don’t mean you a killer or a gangster. It means you a man.
[As an actor] you’re looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person’s skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting the movie in such a public way that it almost undermines the initial intention of going under the radar.
It is still your work or role that finally gives you your definition in our society, and the thousands upon thousands of people who I believe are like me are those who have never found the professional skin to fit the riot in their souls .
Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly,
The spot on your skin is a shocking disease.
The spot on your skin is a shocking disease.
On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.
A question I often get is, “How do you maintain your sanity with so much happening all around you?” I think I developed a certain mental toughness that is required in the business. You have to have a thick skin and a brass bottom, because you’re going to kicked a lot.
My great grandma always told me to drink a lot of milk because it’s good for the skin.
and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.
I really do. I don’t see it as a kind of elite experience – it’s our biggest organ. We need to see a dermatologist and have them really look at our skin and figure out what’s going on.
The best fragrance is the scent of water, the fragrance of dew and rain falling on plants. Water is the essential element, a source of life and energy. A perfume that, like a garment, moves to suit the woman, her skin. A perfume that embraces a woman.
My whole life, I’ve wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It’s the most liberating thing in the world.
The mercury light doesn’t show red. It makes the blood in your skin look blue-black. But see how splendidly it brings out the green in the plants.
From a writer’s standpoint, each character and story presents its own unique challenges and delights. I’m deeply curious about all of my characters, and I love peeling away their layers to see what’s underneath their skin, or secreted deep within their hearts.
Even if you can sing or even if you can write a song, it takes a lot of determination, it takes some kind of thick skin, because you got to persevere despite the fact that people tell you you shouldn’t do this or you shouldn’t do that or you’re not good enough or your style’s too different. I’ve heard all of that stuff.
my poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn’t yet fallen off completely.
In the future, we will play games while floating naked in a tank of warm, sensory-depriving gelatin. Games will be distributed chemically, into the gelatin, and absorbed into the player’s skin. The gelatin will be Lingonberry-flavored, and the games will encourage good citizenship.
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God … It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.
The term ‘celebrity’ makes my skin crawl.
Exercise II. Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started: Dear Diary, I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity. God alive, I feel supple.
She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin’s so pale she looks like she’s just broken dawn.
A thick skin is a gift from God.
We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.
It’s funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!
One of the amazing things about Spider-Man is that you don’t see skin colour when he’s in the suit. You don’t see any religious beliefs. A hero is a hero, whether you’re a man, woman, gay, lesbian, straight, black, white or red all over ― it doesn’t matter.
If the lot of you survives, Curran will fray the skin off your backs,’ Doolittle said. ‘That’s what I always love about you, Doctor.’ Raphael grinned. ‘You’re a cup-halfway-full kind of guy. All flowers and sunshine.
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there’s neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.
I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, “How am I being perceived because of my culture or my skin?”
He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.
Something stirred beneath my skin, some being inside I’d only suspected existed, demon or angel, I couldn’t say.
There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.
There are two things that really get under Gary Neville’s skin: scousers and policemen.
I hate skin; I hate bones and bodies. I want to curl up inside of him and be carried there forever.
The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century – it was actually mummified, skin and all – but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
He laughed. The laugh could strip the skin off an elephant in seconds.
If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one’s back on hum suffering and look after one’s own skin.
As I get older, my skin shows more of how I am feeling, like a mirror. If I am stressed, or not getting enough sleep, I see it in my face right away.
Caffeine dehydrates the body and speeds up the aging of the skin and kidneys.
There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.
An Indian’s dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Caleb and Tris exchange a look. The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same colour, purple-blue-green, as if drawn with ink. This is what happens when siblings collide – they injure each other in the same way.
Staph lives on skin. Thats the reason why many infections start as a boil.
I have believed for a long time that human nature is a reciprocity of what is inside the skin and what is outside: that it is definitely not “rolled up inside us” but our way of being one with our fellows and our world. I call this field theory.
Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the dressing table mirror, his own odor on her skin. A vague thought made her shudder: “The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
I’m mesmerized by the way his fingers move confidently along her skin, as though her body is his to reat and touch and tend to. She was mine before she was yours: The words are there, unexpectedly, surging from my throat to my tongue. I swallow them back.
We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are all forms of the soil. But that part of this mineral that is on top, like it is the skin of the earth, that is the most precious of the commons.
In ‘Futurama,’ the skin color is no longer yellow. They have actually evolved to cartoon skin tone. But they still have four fingers.
What I do not like, the kind of high-resolution cameras, 4K, 6K, for shooting dialogue, for having faces and close-ups of actors, and you see every single pore in the skin.
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin, so to speak. That’s why we read novels, and also why we write them – to experience more life, through imagination.
The body does not end with our skin – it extends into time, into space, and into other people.
If I describe a person’s physical appearance in my writing, which I often do, especially in fiction, I never say someone is “black” or “white.” I may describe the color of their skin – black eyes, beige skin, blue eyes, dark skin, etc. But I’m not talking about race.
Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.
People are like lice – they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can’t get permanently deloused.
Try to get inside the skins of others. Think how they feel, how they react, and guide your own conduct by that.
In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more tantalizing than the thirteen cubic feet of bare skin Orla sported. But in this universe, that was Adam’s job. He was in a terrible mood.
Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.
I had been with a guy for seven years and I was done with that. I wanted to reinvent my whole life and change my hair – I’d had brown, straight extensions forever – and I just wanted to get rid of that, to shed skin, and really just be independent.
The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was.
The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially the poorest.
It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.
I’m lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you’d come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn’t need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.
The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.
One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.
The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors – especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists – deride other people because of their different beliefs and lifestyles.
The majority of Latin actresses in Hollywood were always playing either spitfires or maids. Now here is a woman who comes in and does leads opposite white people and black people and other Spanish people, and she’s comfortable in her skin? Gasp! How dare she?
I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different – such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour – but different in some significant way.
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.
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.
A thug is someone who stands on his own. He lives by the decisions he makes and accepts the consequences. A thug is comfortable in his own skin. I wear mine like a glove.
The way he kissed me felt like a brand. Like he was tattooing himself under my skin.
Care not what they say about the color of your skin let the brilliant light of your soul blind them.
I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin.
Barack and I have been in the public eye for many years now, and we’ve developed a thick skin along the way. When you’re out campaigning, there will always be criticism. I just take it in stride, and at the end of the day, I know that it comes with the territory.
The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.
Be patient. Your skin took a while to deteriorate. Give it some time to reflect a calmer inner state. As one of my friends states on his Facebook profile: “The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.”
After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan.
A church that doesn’t provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn’t unsettle, a word of God that doesn’t get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that doesn’t touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed — ​what gospel is that?
Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone’s skin, it has to do with money and their class.
It’s not difficult for me to stay healthy. I like healthy food. It’s also become a lifestyle for me and I need a certain fitness level to be able to travel and have good skin and nails. If I ate worse then it would be difficult for me to keep up and it also wouldn’t be so good for my looks either.
Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.
I don’t think about being beautiful or not being beautiful. … It’s more about feeling confident inside your own skin really and thinking about yourself as little as possible.
Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.
That’s what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are.
The man in the coon skin cap in the pig pen wants eleven dollar bills, you’ve only got ten.
I don’t think sun-tanned skin is any more attractive than white skin, or any healthier, for that matter
People can perfect whatever facade they want, but everyone holds their sins close to their skin.
Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off – your experience of life is more intense.
My style is streamlined, sophisticated and simple, so I usually go for a dress. No matching involved. I am bad at matching! I like easy and when you’re done, it looks like a second skin. I wear dresses every day for that reason. It’s easy!
The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.
They tied me back together, but they didn’t use double knots. My insides are draining out of the fault lines in my skin, I can feel it, but every time I check the bandages, they’re dry.
Depending on the season, between 20 and 30 percent of my collections contain some sort of eco or sustainable element, whether it’s a beautiful organic fabric or a natural dye. And obviously I don’t use animal skins or fur of any kind.
I want to be inside you so badly, Grace,” he whispered. “I want to feel your legs wrapped around me, feel your breasts against my chest, hear you moaning as I make slow, sweet love to you. I want your smell on my body, your breath on my skin.
You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.
I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It’s like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling.
You have to develop a very thick skin.
“Godling? Demigod?” Lysis nearly howled. “You’d be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like that. In Sparta, the secret police would ambush you, violate you, skin you alive and use your skull for a drinking cup.”
Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?
The heart lies and the head plays tricks on us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin. Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in a way knowing the truth.
It’s a sin problem, not a skin problem.
I see blindness more as an ability and sight more as a disability because there are some people with sight who tend to judge others by what they see on the outside but I don’t see that. I don’t see the skin color, the hair style or the clothing people wear; I only see that which is within a person.
My all-time favorite skin cream is from Poland. Its called Eva Natura with Polish herbs, including rosemary. It smells wonderful and is soothing and comforting.
My mom didn’t use face cream, like, nothing at all. She’s got great skin and looks very youthful.
Mars still remains the astrobiology community’s number one choice for ‘nearest rock with life,’ but there are many researchers who argue that the moons of Jupiter are better bets. In particular, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto are all thought to hide vast oceans of liquid water beneath their icy, outer skins.
every move of his body sent ripples along those lean muscles. his flawless crystal skin practically dared people to see ifit felt as good as it loked – which it did.
President George W. Bush won reelection in 2004 largely because he was seen as comfortable in his own skin, while rival John Kerry was viewed as a flip-flopping opportunist.
Being a mom changes your life. It actually has made me become more comfortable in my own skin and my own body because it’s such a growth and a learning lesson.
I want people to feel happy in their own skins and feel accepted by society.
The sky is dark. But to understand something is to give light. Those who deny liberty to the slaves may have white skins, but their consciences are blacker than the skin of the Negro.
The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely … Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.
My thoughts took frantic flight, wanting to escape this prison, and seek out the wind so it could fan my hair and sting my skin, and make me feel alive again.
In Kamby Bolongo Mean River damage and delusion walk hand in hand, and everything we think we know is gradually called into question. Reading like a cross between Samuel Beckett’s ‘The Calmative’ and Gordon Lish’s Dear Mr. Capote, Robert Lopez’s new novel gets under your skin and latches on.
Skins may differ, but affection
Dwells in white and black the same.
Dwells in white and black the same.
[She] was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don’t weigh anything.
My skin is like a map of where my heart has been And I can’t hide the marks It’s not a negative thing.
After all these years, I’ve done well and I’m cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I’ve saved some paper, everybody’s healthy, my kids are beautiful and smart, doing different things, it’s all good.
I’m not too big on moisturisers and fancy skin products. I keep my grooming regime nice and simple.
Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial respect and understanding. It seemed as if the dream of a color-blind society was within reach in the jazz world, where musicians were judged on merit and not skin color.
She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her nose and licked at her lips. Her eyes had blackened. Cuts had opened up and a series of wounds were rising to the surface of her skin. All from the words. From Liesel’s words.
Now that I am an adult, I’m very comfortable in my own skin. I’m a lot more settled down and I learnt to just be comfortable with where I’m at, rather than always wanting to be somewhere ahead of where I am.
Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others’ discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it’s funny.
One must know the so-called ‘lesson of a downpour. A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.
Basting is evil. Basting does nothing for the meat. Why? Skin. Skin is designed to keep stuff out of the bird, so basting just lets heat out of the oven. That means the turkey will take longer to cook… so don’t touch that door!
As readers, we have gone from learning a precious craft whose secret was held by a jealous few, to taking for granted a skin that has become subordinate to principles of mindless financial profit or mechanical efficiency, a skill for which governments care almost nothing.
The skin is a true symbol of our health because it’s the last place to get nutrition and if you can drive all those nutrients all the way through to the skin then you know it’s gotten everywhere else too and that’s something that we all recognise.
I think just having smooth skin is so great because when you get your summer tan, you don’t have to do anything. It’s just soft and smooth.
I love new cities, and if I haven’t travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin.
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.
He finds his fellow guilty of a skin
Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r
T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause
Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
Not color’d like his own, and having pow’r
T’ enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause
Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
Those who have never worked nude outdoors just can’t imagine how much better a breeze feels on their skin than an item of sweaty clothing.
I’m not a dermatologist, but I had someone explain it to me, and I’ve seen the effect on my own skin over the years. So I feel like we need to protect our faces, especially those of us who live in Southern California, from this goddamn sun that’s on us all day.
Folklore is the perfect second skin. From under its hide, we can see all the shimmering, shadowy uncertainties of the world.
If any man claims the Negro should be content… let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
Marlee, what are you doing? Get under a tent before you burn your skin.” She gave me a polite smile. “I’m happy here.” “No, really,” I said, putting a hand around her arm. “You’ll look like my hair.
You’re my change of skin / my summer-winter-fall / I spring to follow you / this loss is beautiful.
I’m pretty blessed when it comes to clear skin. I owe that to being Cape Verdian. My whole family has great skin. My grandfather is 80 but doesn’t look a day over 50. And we all love the sun, too, so blessed is an understatement!
What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son’s skin, and straighten out his nappy hair?
Fiction is a sort of inter-human magic, allowing you to travel into a scene and feel it tingle on your skin.
As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone is a stone. My beautiful fusion with the things of this world was over.
I want to kiss her without counting the seconds. I want to hold her so long that I get to know her skin. I want, I want, I want.
My response was that more than half of Israelis are of Sephardic origin. Many of these Jews come from Arab lands and share the same physical skin color.
Her skin tasted expensive.
I couldn’t see who swam in the darkness, who wore shadows like a second skin.
Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.
I suddenly remember something I’ve been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin.
Life is just like a book. Only after you’ve read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live.
the darkness is a cresting wave. It sweeps me up out of my body until I float among the stars, those tine bright pores on the sky’s skin. If only I could pass through them, I would end up on the other side, the right side, shadowless, perfectly illuminated, beyond the worries of this mundane world
Personal prejudice: Hispanic and Latino women with blond hair look like hookers to me, no matter how clean or cute they are. Somehow those skin tones that look so good with dark, dark hair just don’t work for me with lighter shades.
I have the thickest skin of anyone you’ll ever meet. No one can say anything about me I haven’t heard a million times before.
Not everything about me is cute.” “That’s true, some things are cute. The rest are sexy. Astonishing, agonizingly sexy. It’s a wonder I can get anything done at all, when all I ever think about is the way your lips taste or how your fingertips feel on my skin or how your legs are…” “Adrian, shut up.
we shed the skins of who we used to be!
It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.
I’m not going to play a racial game. With me, you’re going to meet a guy named Shelby Steele, and you will have to get to know me as an individual. The color of my skin won’t tell you anything. I think there’s more and more of that in America.
I was looking for someone to formulate a skin care line I could use.
The Japanese are a disease of the skin. The Communists are a disease of the heart.
Filming is long – you get very tired, and your skin breaks out and you get lumps and bumps. It’s easier if you’re allowed to have bags under your eyes.
The Lord has never indicated that black skin came because of being less faithful. Now, the Indian; we know why he has changed, don’t we? The Book of Mormon tells us that; and he has a dark skin, but he has promise there that through faithfulness, that they all again become a white and delightsome people.
On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they’re listening to what you’re saying, you’re off the screen.
If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I’m just more sensitive to noise these days.
The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin – this is bone – all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality.
[On journalists:] … however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he is not Great. They can but scratch at his skin with their mice nails.
I grew up around hunters. I love guns, bows, arrows, compasses and binoculars. I don’t do any of that stuff, I just like the stuff. I shot one animal, in my life, and I didn’t like it. If I had to skin an animal to eat it, I’d probably eat vegetables.
First, I eat healthy; it comes from the inside out. If you eat right, your skin, hair, nails will look good. The same if you have negative thoughts – they can give you a bad look, too; we reflect what we eat and think. We also taste and smell what we eat. Being happy and doing what I love really reflects.
The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.
A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella’s limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.
Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That’s all history is, after all: scar tissue.
When I won the Cesar, I was, first of all, an actor. I have to say, it’s humanity first. That’s the future. We have to stop seeing the skin color. I believe that’s the most powerful way to change mentalities and behavior.
The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins- an ingenious display that encouraged vigor in his students, as well as nicely keeping out the drafts.
You have to realize, when you’re a comedian, that you have to have a thick skin. And trust me, being onstage in front of people is already difficult enough. Somebody’s personal attack in an email is not as hard as getting onstage.
I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
What I do in the writing of any character is to try to enter into the mind, heart and skin of a human being who is not myself. It is the act of a writer’s imagination that I set the most high.
I’m sorry to say I’m very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.
Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.
I don’t think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.
That’s the beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel’s tears away and invented worlds just so he could promise them to her, when she tore the skin off her own arm at the thought of living without him.
My kids have to maintain good grades. They have to be involved in activities. They have to report to me how thing are going. I watch for any activity that would steer them wrong – drinking, drugs, etc. So their skin in the game is knowing the money won’t be there if they don’t do their part.
He was the mightiest of Puritans no less than of philistines who first insisted that beauty is only skin deep.
You can put in a curl or put on a lip color or mascara, but the important thing is that the health of your skin and hair is shining through.
I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.
What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
So now I’m rollin’ down Rodeo wit a shotgun, These people ain’t seen a brown skin man, Since their grandparents bought one
Gravy is persistently plagued by two problems. Problem number one – skin. And problem number two – lumps.
… people misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.
When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.
Like most people, I’ve grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and what suits me better now than I did when I was much younger and feel more comfortable in my own skin.
I would never want to write a character who was not thoroughly herself or himself. She’s a very specific creature in my mind, and she has her thoughts, which range from skin to American history, philosophy, and the arts.
Skin heads are doing an awful job of promoting racism. You guys need to loosen up, and for god’s sake would it kill you to smile.
Grape juice at the communion table symbolizes the historical impotence of Christ’s blood, Christ’s gospel, Christ’s church, and Christ’s expanding kingdom. Grape juice stays вЂbottled up’, confined to the historical skins of Palestine.
My skin may have wrinkles but it’s because I’m smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it’s immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
I have learned that real angels don’t have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days’ sweat.
In the middle of a wrist’s suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there’s an acupuncture point that says, “Get back to who you were meant to be.”
Sage?” Adrian lightly touched my arm, and I jumped at the feel of his fingertips against my skin. “You okay?” “I don’t know,” I said softly. “I just thought of something crazy.” “Welcome to my world.
There are a lot of signs. One of the things that makes me most nervous is the disappearance of the frogs. They’re going downhill all over the planet. Frogs are susceptible to all kinds of problems, because they require water to breed and their skin is very porous. Their condition is nerve racking.
The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person’s skin from his own?
What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.
I recommend Avon Skin-So-Soft. It’s a bath product. It smells like someone fed a Disney Princess through a juicer, but it works better than anything else on the market.
I’m lucky with my skin – it doesn’t require a lot of attention, so I keep things simple. And I drink a lot of water.
God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so I can handle life. Make me tender so I can love people. God, make me a man.
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!
I want to make movies that pierce people’s hearts and touch them in some way, even if it’s just for the night while they’re in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin.
Water is essential to life! It’s also great for keeping your skin looking good and healthy, which is an added bonus.
Good skin makes me feel pretty, and it makes me feel healthy, and it makes me feel happy.
Throughout my life, I’ve had different metaphors for freedom. At one time, it was skin diving. In the ocean you feel weightless; you escape from gravity.
I’m trying to get under people’s skin in a way. I don’t like films that go in one ear and out the other.
I have sensitive skin, so I don’t use regular razors. The Yankees make us stay cleanly shaven!
And in addition to its practical uses, it would seem to work for cosmetic purposes. This powder would make my very skin glimmer for eternity.” Henry frowned. “Not eternity,” he said, but then he brightened. “But I could make you up another batch whenever you please!” “I could shine at will!” Magnus grinned at Henry.
Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be especially true for seniors, as the ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin declines with age.
I have always regarded historical fiction and fantasy as sisters under the skin, two genres separated at birth.
European standards of beauty are something that plague the entire world – the idea that darker skin is not beautiful, that light skin is the key to success and love. Africa is no exception.
