Top 100 Quotes About Skin
#1. No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela
#2. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.
I want.
Sara Gruen
#3. This was what she needed ... the quiet turning to the other in the middle of the night, the wordless meeting of lips, skin, breath. The trust, unfurling one pale petal at a time, that he would be there.
Eileen Wilks
#4. I'd make a lousy cop. I'd just wear it too close to my skin and wouldn't survive. I'll stick to acting.
Enrico Colantoni
#5. I rub a mixture of honey and salt all over my body to moisturise and exfoliate. You wash it off and your skin is gorgeous.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#6. My final prayer:
O my body, make of me always a man who questions!"
- Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks
Frantz Fanon
#7. She had small animal bones. They moved her skin - surface swimming.
Tom Benn
#8. inside them, no one's having fun.
Instead, people are expressing needs (to earn money, to see a woman's skin) in pretty much the most depressing way possible.
Caitlin Moran
#9. The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath
Michelle Sagara West
#10. There's good sex, and then there's sex where the memory takes up permanent residence in your brain, changes the fucking chemical balance or something so that you crave it like a damn fix. It makes you jones for it, gets under your skin like an itch. That's the kind of sex this is.
Sabrina Paige
#11. [As an actor] you're looking to crawl into an anonymous fictional person's skin, but then you have the ironic obligation to promoting the movie in such a public way that it almost undermines the initial intention of going under the radar.
Jesse Eisenberg
#12. SO THIS IS HOW NOAH FELT. You wake up one morning and God has forgiven you and you walk around squinting all day because you've forgotten how sunlight feels warm and rough against your skin like a kiss on the cheek from your dad, and the whole world is brighter and cleaner than ever before,
John Green
#13. Because I know it in my bones. You are the only female I desire, the only water that will quench my thirst, the only sun that will warm my skin, the only lips that were made for mine.
Dannika Dark
#14. His perpetual grin was wider than any I'd ever seen, and that included several guys I'd known at Dreadgrave's with no skin on their faces.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#15. Your skin was song. Your advice was:see.
Unica Zurn
#16. I don't even draw on my life experiences when I'm acting. I just try and make it feel like I'm living through that person's skin.
Aaron Paul
#17. I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.
Lauren Oliver
#19. I wanted to be normal. I didn't want to be the woman turned on while her husband held her down on the kitchen floor and dragged a knife across her skin. Pleasure and pain bled together feeding a sickness that I wanted to be cured of.
Natalie Bennett
#20. Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
Michelangelo
#21. Vegans are still considered as sort of "out there," a fringe group of animal rights activists with pasty skin and protein issues. However,
Steven D. Levitt
#22. Looking at her, he could almost see the painted serpent squirming on her skin, ready to turn, mouth open.
Megan Abbott
#23. I know who I am and I've always been comfortable in my own skin.
Ledisi
#24. He slipped his hand under hers and bowed his head over it. His breath touched her skin and sent a tingling sensation up her arm.
Melanie Dickerson
#25. Just show a little skin once in a while. You look like a member of a freaking Mormon cult or something. We live in Chicago, not Baghdad.
M.K. Schiller
#26. As she leaned forward to catch his mouth, she misjudged the distance between them and smashed against his chest. He caught her, roping an arm around her wait.
"Forget me tomorrow. Hell, forget me tonight." Shivers danced over Emelia's skin and she closed her eyes. "But kiss me now.
Kristin Miller
#27. Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.
Josephine Baker
#28. Where people really base their principles has nothing to do with the color of someone's skin, it has to do with money and their class.
Zoe Saldana
#29. She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her nose and licked at her lips. Her eyes had blackened. Cuts had opened up and a series of wounds were rising to the surface of her skin. All from the words. From Liesel's words.
Markus Zusak
#30. The hands were ivory-coloured, the skin finely wrinkled everywhere, like the crust on a pool of wax, and under it appreared livid bruises, arthritic nodes, irregular tea-brown stains ... The flesh under the horny nails was candlvwax-coloured, and bloodless.
A.S. Byatt
#31. A great fig should look like it's just about to burst its skin. When squeezed lightly it should give a little and not spring back. It must be almost unctuously sweet, soft and wet.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#32. Skin chilling, she realized he had no more in him.
Nalini Singh
#33. Years from now this will be what I remember when I remember my spring break senior year. It will be this moment right here. The smell of chlorine on his skin. The way the sun dips slow into the water before it disappears. The first time I ever told a boy I loved him.
Jenny Han
#34. It smelled bad there, like blood and rotting meat, a dense, heavy smell very different from the smell of his own town, which smelled of dirty clothes, sweat clinging to the skin, pissed-on earth, which is a thin smell, and smell like Chorda filum.
2666, Bolano
Roberto Bolano
#35. I'm strong enough and have a pretty thick skin, but when people go after my kids, I just hit block-delete, block-delete. It's my mantra.
Kris Jenner
#36. Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial respect and understanding. It seemed as if the dream of a color-blind society was within reach in the jazz world, where musicians were judged on merit and not skin color.
Randy Sandke
#37. I've stayed away from doing 'urban film' because I just don't relate to the characters. I'm not going to take a role because I happen to have the same skin color.
Zoe Kravitz
#38. I am a big foodie, so much so that I eat in every half an hour. This is the secret of my glowing skin.
Deepika Padukone
#39. Since I was growing up in New Zealand where there's a hole in the ozone layer above us, we get so much sun damage to our skin, and the thing we can do to look after ourselves is use sunscreen during the day, but making sure your skin is well hydrated while you sleep.
Rose McIver
#41. She put
two-fingered guns to her temples when she saw us: red patch
of smoker's skin around her mouth like a raw sun rising.
Adrian Matejka
#42. And the next time I reach for my pen,
it won't be to write about you again.
The sun will feel warm on my skin once more,
and I will get drunk on the colors of the sky
instead of tasting hangovers dripping from strangers' lips.
Sade Andria Zabala
#43. Kyrie ... I need to feel you. Need to kiss your skin. I have to taste your beauty.
Jasinda Wilder
#44. Jane felt self-conscious each time Ghost saw her naked. A lifetime of fathood had left her with sagging skin. Ghost didn't seem to mind. He had a paunch and a hairy back.
"All the supermodels are dead, baby," he told her. "Let it go.
Adam Baker
#45. I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.
Arianna Huffington
#46. You could never know what transpired beneath another's skin.
Ward Just
#47. Is this the message 'save yer own skin at all costs'? Because if that's the message, no wonder America's in the state it's in. Thank God I'm Australian.
E. Van Lowe
#48. You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made
And people whose skin is a different shade.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#49. With his sunglasses gone and his scarf hanging down, there was no denying that he had no flesh, he had no skin, he had no eyes and he had no face.
All he had was a skull for a head.
Derek Landy
#50. I think films have to reach people and really grab them. That's what I hope to do when I make a film - to get under your skin and really make you think about something, and have a transporting time that takes you somewhere.
Mira Nair
#51. The afternoon light brightening the green in her eyes, her tan skin the last memory of fall
John Green
#52. Beauty's only skin deep.
Everybody has ugly days.
We're all made of the same stuff underneath.
Acting right is better than looking right.
Realize what make you special beyond looks.
Evil can look pretty on the outside.
Shannon Delany
#53. He pressed his lips to her shoulder, whispering along her soft skin, "I'm right where I want to be.
Lisa Kessler
#54. She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.
Alice Hoffman
#55. This is a book about getting naked - not physically, but spiritually. It's about stripping away the symbols and status of public religion - the Sunday-dress version people often call "organized religion." And it's about attending to the well-being of the soul clothed only in naked human skin.
Brian D. McLaren
#56. Sensation is an element of what I do, and why not? It's not sensational for the sake of being sensational, but it's sensational art ... It's like touching skin.
Damien Hirst
#57. [Jack] checked his watch, then returned to studying her back. damn if she didn't have a nice back, too - smooth, unblemished skin, nicely shaped vertebrae-
He pulled himself up short. Nicely shaped vertebrae? Was he going insane?
Sarah Mayberry
#58. Do you mind," he asked politely, "if I slide my blade under your skin, just a little?
Mercedes M. Yardley
#59. To be comfortable in your skin was the biggest topic for me because I'm somebody who's always judged just by how I look. I wanted to get the message across that you don't have to hide yourself or be glamorous, just be you.
Kid Ink
#60. You should never be in a hurry if you can help it. It's bad for everything. Bad for the stomach, the spleen, the skin. Especially bad for the joints. The knees and ankles. Rushing isn't healthy at all.
Catherine Lacey
#61. The Bush administration is the most diverse in history because the president fills jobs on the basis of a person's capabilities and qualifications, not on the color of his or her skin.
Alphonso Jackson
#62. The flirty old moon eased his way across the warped and sooty floorboards and kissed my bare toes, turning my feet as luminous as the skin of cinema stars.
Cat Winters
#63. Although I am able to walk about freely, I am a prisoner in my skin.
Souad
#64. In comfort and abundance the Friend raised me. With vein and skin He tailored this ragged body. It's just a robe worn by a Sufi, the heart. The whole universe is a khaneqah1 and He is my Shaikh.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#65. Without thinking twice, he'd lifted his hand, still clutching the penknife, and drawn it swiftly along her milky skin, made his pain her own . . .
Kate Morton
#66. I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me. The color of my skin or the kink of my hair or the spread of my mouth has nothing to do with what you are listening to.
Leontyne Price
#67. Fragments of energy sizzled against my skin where he touched me, like sparks that shoot from a sparkler you played with as a kid.
Jodie Andrefski
#68. When you're really crazy you don't question it. Being aware of my behaviors stops them. Sure, a lot of people pick their cuticles, but how many people cut big parts of their skin off? It's unfair because I have been judged.
Jenny Lawson
#69. You need to be the one to walk away. Tell me to fuck off, and end it. I'll quit Skin Deep, you find a different bar. I can't ... you have to be the one.
Jamie McGuire
#70. Alan:I used rabbit-skin glue to size the panels. I got it from the art
shop. I don't know if they use real rabbits in it. It seems kind of a
shame if they do, but then it's not like there's a rabbit shortage, is
it? And maybe they only used rabbits that would've died anyhow.
J.L. Merrow
#71. I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek.
Aspen Matis
#72. Say that to my mother. She stays up at night wondering about who will marry me with this skin colour.
Chetan Bhagat
#73. I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.
Danny Boyle
#74. The more popular a person thinks he is in the blogosphere, the thinner his skin and the thicker his hypocrisy. This should be exactly the opposite: the higher you go the thicker the skin and thinner the hypocrisy.
Guy Kawasaki
#75. I realised that a lot of women felt the same way I did - they didn't want to wear heavy make-up, but, for whatever reason, there were elements in their skin they want to smooth out or cover.
Louise Nurding
#76. There followed a time when everything was dull. The things that had meant something lost importance, though they were still there, like bruises on the body that fade to hard lumps under the skin.
Tracy Chevalier
#77. People spent their lives searching for something beyond the simple friction of skin on skin, but there was nothing. The void between two people could never be closed, and in trying to close it, they would only learn everything that was to be despised in the other.
Maggie Shipstead
#78. You cannot be defined by your skin color, where you come from. The world is yours, embrace it.
Angelique Kidjo
#79. She took her coat off as if it had only now occurred to her to do so. She emerged from it like an insect sloughing off its skin.
Haruki Murakami
#80. Overdone lipstick is a deterrent to men. It rubs off easily onto their skin and the edges of their shirts, so it discourages them from kissing, touching, and coming closer to you, which is what they really want to do!
Helen Fisher
#81. Lithium makes a fine battery because it's a scarily reactive metal. Pure lithium ignites on contact if it touches water - a flake of it would sizzle and fry on the water-rich cells of your skin.
Sam Kean
#82. I'm trying to be good with my skin care now that I'm getting older. I really do think it's from the inside - so exercise, hydration, sleep, sex.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#83. I recommend Avon Skin-So-Soft. It's a bath product. It smells like someone fed a Disney Princess through a juicer, but it works better than anything else on the market.
Mira Grant
#84. The only prerequisites for a writer are a word processor and thick skin.
Mark Bell
#85. I want to taste your skin, Evelyn. I want to worship your curves exactly how they should be worshiped. I want to bury myself inside you. The longer you make me wait, the harder I will fuck you. The longer you are beneath me, your ability to walk the next day will be non-existent.
Lilly James
#86. Slowly, though, my fingers savoring the familiar soft skin. And then I let her go. I let her go all the way then, because she's my best friend. And because I care way too much to hurt her any more than I already have by keeping her close.
Lauren Layne
#87. Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will remain invisible; and all of the scars will remain under the skin. Where they belong.
Alice Hoffman
#88. Julia ... do you feel how much you own me?" I moaned against the soft skin of her neck, her pulse beating wildly against my lips. So sweet and alive. "But you're mine. You own me, but you've always been mine.
Kahlen Aymes
#89. When I sew you up ...
Don't let me,
Stop bleeding,
Tiny stitches that you placed into my skin,
Won't let me go,
And they're ruining the mood.
Pierce The Veil
#90. Kicking the door shut with the heel of my boot, I wedge her against it, raining kisses on her skin, wishing I could climb inside her and kiss away the welts left on her heart and mind.
Poppet
#91. Sansa felt as though she were in a dream. "Joffrey is dead," she told the trees, to see if that would wake her. He had not been dead when she left the throne room. He had been on his knees, though, clawing at his throat, tearing at his own skin as he fought to breathe. The
George R R Martin
#92. If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.
Florence Welch
#93. Every second we're together, I get under your skin as deeply as you've scarred mine.
Kresley Cole
#94. Saetan laughed, genuinely amused. No, I wouldn't think he would. He's in his prime, virile, living, and well trained in seduction. That twelve-year-old body must be driving him out of his skin.
Anne Bishop
#95. Her skin is softer than a lamb's. What does she put on herself? Unicorn tears? Jesus Christ.
Ruby Dixon
#96. There is no difference between dark skin and light skin if you are both black. You are not inferior or superior, you are the same race.
Angela Khristin Brown
#97. Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.
Nigella Lawson
#98. if a house
does not
automatically
make a home,
then a body
doesn't
automatically
make a home
either.
-i've always felt like a stranger in my skin.
Amanda Lovelace
#99. I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.
Pablo Neruda
#100. I have campaigned all over the state of South Carolina. It is the friendliest state in the country. And truly here people judge you by the content of your character not the color of your skin.
Tim Scott
