Skinned Quotes

133 quotes by 120 authors

I gather you yellow-skinned men, despite your triumphs in sewage, drinking water, and Olympic gold medals, still don't have democracy. Some politician on the radio… — Aravind Adiga
Some make their worlds without knowing it. Their universes are just sesame seeds and three-day weekends and dial tones and skinned knees and physics and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No… — Malcolm X
He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for… — Pearl S. Buck
...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself… — Aravind Adiga
Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of… — Holly Black
She went out in the city with its lights like a radioactive phosphorescence, wandered through galleries where the high-priced art on the walls was the… — Francesca Lia Block
I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became, the faster and more deft your knife. Knowing what was… — Rabih Alameddine
They all looked like a shampoo commercial, healthy and clear-skinned, perfectly proportioned, a group of handsome young men. Their clothes hung on them like they… — Lilith Saintcrow
It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air,… — Walker Percy
The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a… — Sarah Vowell
A small olive-skinned creature who had hit puberty but never hit it very hard, Ben had been my best friend since fifth grade, when we… — John Green
Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have… — Benjamin Carson
His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man. — Karen Marie Moning
He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, "when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my… — Tom Waits
Look well on this, my son," said the green-skinned man, "for one day I shall rule a clockwork kingdom of such beings, and you shall… — Cassandra Clare
We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for. 'What is it?' asked Larry at length. 'It's a bathing costume, of course,'… — Gerald Durrell
But her grandmother had never suggested she could think the same of Scarlet. You'll be fine, she always said, after a skinned knee, after a… — Marissa Meyer
He raised his eyes. "Sister. See. This time I knew you." Asha's heart skipped a beat. "Theon?" His lips skinned back in what might have… — George R. R. Martin
There she is." Alec spotted his sister and waved her over, looking relieved. "Over here. And watch out for the phouka." "Watch out for the… — Cassandra Clare

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