The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no becoming, no revolution, no struggle, no path; already you're the monarch of your own skin - your inviolable freedom… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think that the heart is a lot like those wonderful fruit, like coconut and mangoes, you know, you have to break… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are fighting so that insults may no longer rule our countries, martyred and scorned for centuries, so that our peoples may… — Amilcar Cabral Copy Share Image
Your skin is prickly from fatigue and pain and there is a hissing in your ears. Time passes and the pills are… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I thought I would love you forever—and, a little, I may, in the way I still move toward a crate, knees bent,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Vampires have bright eyes glistening white teeth unnaturally smooth skin and a certain animal magnetism. If they aren't pretty they starve. It's… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid. — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
I do feel pressure to look a certain way but am fighting that and focusing on being comfortable in my own skin… — Kathryn Budig Copy Share Image
Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
[I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Wounds, I think, are never confined to a single skin but reach out to rasp us all. — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
That's what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
You know, [skin] happens at the gravy boat stage - right? - or this happens when you're trying to keep it warm.… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Redefine what it means to be sexy and what it means to be a woman. Showing my skin is not what makes… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The (editing) work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time youd be down… — Edward Blishen Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid, the darkness you're in is no greater than the darkness inside your own body, they are two darknesses separated… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image