Skins Quotes · Page 20

People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.

— Janet Jackson

and her skin shone luminous and impossibly pale, as if it drank light from the moon.

— Madeline Miller

I couldn't see who swam in the darkness, who wore shadows like a second skin.

— Rachel Vincent

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

— Daphne Guinness

[Paris] is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.

— Albert Camus

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

— Jane Hirshfield

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

— Plutarch

The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.

— Herbert Spencer

People do make assumptions about models. That's their issue, not mine. It doesn't bother me because I'm comfortable enough in my own…

— Lily Cole

My father Lloyd Bridges was very versatile in his parts, but he had a hit in the '60s 'Sea Hunt,' where he…

— Jeff Bridges

You know how we'd get along better? If everybody'd just remember how we're all related. White, black, Asian, skin. No difference. All…

— Charles de Lint

Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money…

— Zoe Saldana

Just the idea of making money can increase your skin conductancy, meaning there's a current of excitement.

— Kabir Sehgal

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

— Virginia Madsen

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It's not a question of clothes or makeup. It's…

— Sophia Loren

I admired fashion but I wasn't an "iconic fashionista" myself. I think as I got more comfortable in my skin, then I…

— Erin Brady

Not only was Cain called upon to suffer, but because of his wickedness, he became the father of an inferior race. A…

— Joseph Fielding Smith

Baby Boomers are now living longer and want to stay vibrant and gorgeous for as long as possible. I've identified a need…

— Sophie Heyman Uliano

When I was younger, living in an all-black neighborhood the other kids thought I was better than them because of my light…

— Halle Berry

This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its…

— Toni Morrison

[2010] was a rough year. Between my divorce and the other things I went through, a lot happened. It's hard for anyone…

— Christina Aguilera

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…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I hear you calling and it's needles and pins (And pins) I want to hurt you just to hear you screaming my…

— Alice Cooper

That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there…

— Haile Selassie

The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put…

— Nhat Hanh

Criticism is hard for me but people find hard to believe because they think I'm very tough, very strident, that I tell…

— Ani DiFranco

Raindrops are beating, a large puddle is forming, there on the balcony. It all floats in Emptiness, in purest Transparency, with no…

— Ken Wilber

When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to disappear. You begin to dwell in his energy, recognize…

— Lisa Unger

Not Exactly True That skin hate is dead. There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear. But when you…

— Ellen Hopkins

How did you keep this by you?" Grey demanded abruptly. "You were searched to the skin when you were brought back." The…

— Diana Gabaldon

I can’t see through clothes or anything. Just glamour skin. Except I can see through all of you, since your clothes aren’t…

— Kiersten White

“Through music you learn not to care about the color of someone’s skin. ”

— Vince Gill

Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.

— Terry McMillan

A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.

— Anya Seton

I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.

— Patrick Wilson

Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins…

— Anonymous

The photograph is married to the eye, Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth.

— Dylan Thomas

Greatness has nothing to do with diversity, skin color, race, ethnicity, nothing to do with it.

— Rush Limbaugh

I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.

— Dana Plato