Papery Skin Quotes

#1. I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me open, my bitter, irritating juices would have stung their eyes, and they would have cried. Although I couldn't cry myself, much at the time. But no one would cut me open.

Crescent Dragonwagon

#2. How things appear is only the thin, papery outer skin of the onion. Of course, when you cut open the onion, your eyes will sting and water, and then you can't see at all. You're lucky if you don't slice your finger.

Elizabeth Cunningham

#3. Strong delusions travel like cold germs on a sneeze.

Stephen King

#4. Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.

Nancy Gibbs

#5. One piece at a time,' the angel hissed, dangling something papery and drenched in dark liquid over Hank's whirling vision.
Hank felt his eyes widen. His skin!

Becca Fitzpatrick

#6. In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.

Herbert Spencer

#7. By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.

Gerald Durrell

#8. The fiend gives the more friendly counsel.

William Shakespeare

#9. Forgiveness will not be possible until compassion is born in your heart.

Nhat Hanh

#10. I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

Paul McCartney

#11. Birth, death, and suffering all bring us to the very edge of what our minds can understand.

Ram Dass

#12. If the body can respond so decisively to music, it must in some sense be music.

Don G. Campbell

#13. It's not the parts of the Bible I don't know that worries me ... it's the parts that I do.

Mark Twain

#14. Something inside of him twisted in an ugly manner. The girl had a damn movie star on her front porch and had looked away.

Alessandra Torre

#15. So, what exactly did these companies do and how did they make use of Facebook Fan Marketing E-Commerce

Sam Key

#16. Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

Romola Garai