Quotes About Flaking

#1. Her body, the nucleic force of the furious scribble, was absolutely out of control: slipping and falling and flaking off, gaining much, losing little.

Ainslie Hogarth

#2. To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business - not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into ... rhetoric and plot.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#3. Her gaze dims as her nostalgia for Palermo overcomes her. Those smells of seaweed dried by the sun, of capers, of ripe figs, she will never find them anywhere else; those burnt and scented shores, those waves slowly breaking, jasmine petals flaking in the sun.

Dacia Maraini

#4. It was a flaking scab on a fleshy field of neglect.

Hunter Shea

#5. My change of heart isn't about flaking out; it's about fighting back.

Jasmine Warga

#6. Inside my heart is breaking,
My make-up may be flaking,
But my smile, still, stays on!

Freddie Mercury

#7. I knew it was coming. I knew they didn't have the nerve.
Three days in and they've got faces like vexed tomatoes, their skins flaking sci-fi style: burnt to fuck. They were an embarrassment; not only to me and the wife and The Fall fans but to their own generation.

Mark E. Smith

#8. By lunchtime, the glitter was flaking off my mask. Three pearls dropped off and rolled down the tiled hallway.

Tessa Gratton

#9. Around them small animals scampered along knotted cables and flaking vines, chirruping, squealing, venting yellow farts. Everywhere was animation, purpose, hurry. Momentum.

Gregory Benford

#10. Alix bore the blow without flinching. A block of marble. Her gaze was piercing and blank, her nose nobly arched. But one cheek was flaking. A hint of strange green and pink vegetation was invading her chin. Another winter perhaps would lay her low.

Marcel Proust

#11. My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.

Bill Bryson

#12. Feathers!" spluttered Sargatanas. "Feathers are for the birds, my boy. Flaking, peeling, scale-ridden wings, now that's what real beings wear. I'll tell you a secret." He said, and drew me closer. "The eternal pain at having known Paradise and lost it is priceless. I wouldn't swap it for anything.

George Pendle

#13. She had never seen snow before, except in TV shows and movies. It had looked to her like the stars were flaking out of the sky. It had looked like thousands of fireflies in the moonlight; like breathlessness, like time stopping, like the most beautiful thing she had ever seen.

Lauren Oliver

#14. WHY IS MY BATH COLD? Because I, purchaser of sadist shoes, needed to soak after wearing cheese graters on my feet yesterday and then traveling and walking and sitting through meetings and touring facilities and impersonating a pack mule today. 'Twas not meant to be.

Qwen Salsbury

#15. Frankly, I wish they would do 'The Bachelorette' for old people. And I could be the bachelorette.

Julie White

#16. The Tanakh says John Lennon is wrong.

Daniel Gordis

#17. I've never kissed you just for show, precious. I'm not about to start now.

Laurelin Paige

#18. No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

Ammianus Marcellinus

#19. I like to swim a lot, while Stjepan likes to take long walks with girls. He's the very romantic type. Yes, musicians are romantic.

Luka Sulic

#20. It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

Abu Bakr

#21. It's a wise parent who allows her children to give up the things of childhood in their own time.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#22. he was bitten in the groin by a Belgian shepherd trainee named Kong, and he required three operations, culminating in a scrotal graft from a Brahma steer.

Carl Hiaasen

#23. I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

Joseph Stiglitz