Skins Quotes · Page 40

So Nemerov showed us this picture, which is of Apollo flaying Marcius. You don't think of Apollo as being the sort of…

— Larkin Grimm

i could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how could skin be that thin? i was…

— Francesca Lia Block

You can only really get under anybody's skin if you are married to them.

— Agatha Christie

Like all living things, love, too, struggles against hardship, and in the process sheds its fatuous skin to expose one composed of…

— Richard Paul Evans

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his…

— George Orwell

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin;…

— Karl Kraus

With relationships, I always had a reason why some time in the future would be better for me than it was that…

— Stephanie Klein

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…

— Anna Quindlen

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an…

— John Irving

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright,…

— Doris Lessing

Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.

— Dorothy West

The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted…

— Charles Bukowski

Beauty [is] a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a…

— Cameron Diaz

Running unites us and brings us together because, in the words of the great Bill Rogers, "We sweat the same. We struggle…

— Dean Karnazes

I wonder about death, I who may never know it. It looks much like ecstacy, the way they open their mouths as…

— Holly Black

The Japanese are a disease of the skin. The Communists are a disease of the heart.

— Chiang Kai-shek

When I stop doing the things that make me unhappy, I will experience the happiness that is that natural state of being.…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

This is the swamp as I see it, but what I can’t capture on canvas is you as I see you. No…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

One of the things I love about translation is it obliterates the self. When I'm trying to figure out what Tu Fu…

— Sam Hamill

I'm not going to play a racial game. With me, you're going to meet a guy named Shelby Steele, and you will…

— Shelby Steele

I'm mildly obsessed with skin care. I do a lot of masks at home, like Elisha Coy's Korean Collagen masks. I also…

— Nina Arianda

The years wrinkle our skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles our soul.

— Socrates

For me, beauty and fashion are always connected. One doesn’t exist without the other. Make up is a key element of the…

— Frida Giannini

We're not our skin of grime, we're not our dread bleak dusty imageless locomotive, we're all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we're blessed…

— Allen Ginsberg

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

— Muhammad Ali