Skinned Quotes

133 quotes by 120 authors

A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot… — George Bernard Shaw
Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours. — John Carmack
So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each… — Henry Louis Gates
The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's… — James Fenton
You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal. — Mia Hamm
I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and… — Janis Ian
I was fair-skinned in a country that's about the outdoors. — Nicole Kidman
From the right, you get demagogues shouting about brown-skinned anchor babies and clamoring to deport the undocumented. From the left, you get advocacy for the… — Eric Liu
It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance. — Ryan Lochte
If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not… — Steven Morrissey
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. — Ross Perot
I am not a particularly thick-skinned person. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses… — Anna Deavere Smith
Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA. — Fred Upton
I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German. — Lawrence Welk
Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost. — A. S. Byatt
I will be your friend,' I said. 'I will go home to my mother's house the way I did when I skinned my knees as… — Consuelo de Saint-ExupÃ©ry
We are a thick skinned people with emtpy souls. We spend our days playing dice, chess, or sleeping - and we say we are the… — Nizar Qabbani
A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different… — Jane Yolen
Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom! — William Shakespeare

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