Skins Quotations | Page 10

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.

The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard

I've often felt unattractive or different looking. As I've grown up, I've felt more comfortable in my own skin. It may sound cliche, but when you feel beautiful and strong on the inside, it shows on the outside.

The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.

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

Skins may differ, but affectionDwells in white and black the same.

How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: "this is really you, this is no longer outer shell.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

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.

My skin is too thick and bullet proof to touch me.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

I'm on a diet as my skin doesn't fit me anymore.

The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.

Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.

The mind does not take its complexion from the skin....

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.

The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.

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.

Skin diseases are something doctors like, the patient neither dies nor gets well.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

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.

Now I had won the gold medal. But it didn't mean anything, because I didn't have the right color 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.

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.

The color of a person's skin had nothing to do with the content of their character.

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.

Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike.

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.

The Earth is like one of those balls made of twelve pieces of skin.

If there's a message to pass to people, I'd say that it's normal to be different from others, it's good to differ from one another, and we'd better look at ourselves first before we start criticising someone who looks, acts, speaks different or has a different skin colour. I'd like to continue, even at a minimal level, what John Lennon had started. If I could do as much as a bit of what he did, if I could contribute to the elimination of hatred among us, that would be a great deal.

Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.

WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE THE TEXTURE OF YOUR HAIR? WHO TAUGHT YOU TO HATE THE COLOUR OF YOUR SKIN?...

Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety 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.

What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?

It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin, That lays eggs under your skin.

Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.

Mentally strong people are comfortable in their own skin.

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.

One hundred years ago, the slave was freed. One hundred years later, the Negro remains in bondage to the color of his skin.

What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.

As an actor, throughout three years, I've become more comfortable within my own skin and confident.

The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

You've got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made And people whose skin is a different shade.

I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within.

The thing that binds us together is the commonality of our dreams, not our skin tone.

As the old African adage says, 'everybody skin to me ain't kin to me'. So you can't exclusively make that the criteria of your job selection and say that it's right when it's black and discrimination when it's white.

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin... Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.

Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me.

Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly, The spot on your skin is a shocking disease.

I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.

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.

Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.