Skins Quotes · Page 27

You can shear a sheep a hundred times, but you can skin it only once.

— Amarillo Slim

Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have…

— Michel de Montaigne

I will never grow thick skin, so that you don't have to feel bad about being a jerk to me.

— Anonymous

Between skin and skin, there is only light.

— John Fowles

A lot of people thought oh, we caught the dictionary in racism, or all it takes is a whole bunch of people…

— Kory Stamper

But the color of a Negro's skin makes him easily recognizable, makes him suspect, converts him into a defenseless target

— Richard Wright

She felt him tremble with the force of his need. He spoke just beneath her ear, his voice thick with tormented pleasure.…

— Lisa Kleypas

When you meet the one. It just clicks. Clicking is important in a relationship. When you click, you share the same passion…

— Rita Zahara

The body does not end with our skin - it extends into time, into space, and into other people.

— Stanley Krippner

I say let me never be complete, I say may I never be content,I say deliver me from Swedish furniture, I say…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Sometimes the purpose of a day is to merely feel our sadness, knowing that as we do, we allow whole layers of…

— Marianne Williamson

I wrote this [Most Kings] before MJ died, and his death only proves my point: When he was alive, the King of…

— Jay-Z

Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But…

— Henry David Thoreau

Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a…

— Carl Sagan

Worried about dry skin? Concerned about lines and wrinkles? Then visit a burns unit and get some perspective.

— Shaun Micallef

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour. A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road…

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

— Nam June Paik

I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

I never felt the urge to jump off a bridge, but there are times I have wanted to jump out of my…

— David Levithan

If you're comfortable in your own skin, you will feel beautiful - and look beautiful to others, too.

— Adriana Lima

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

— Nate Parker

Don't be polite. Bite in. Pick it up with your fingers and lick the juice that may run down your chin. It…

— Eve Merriam

Here's what I've found in Louisiana: The voters want to know what you believe, what you stand for, and what you plan…

— Bobby Jindal

I admit to having worn suede and leather pants myself for a while, but you just never feel clean, and it's degenerate,…

— Andy Warhol