Top 100 Quotes About Skins
#1. The spiritual life is about becoming more at home in your own skin.
Parker J. Palmer
#2. The happier I am, the better my skin is. Any woman knows when they are over exerting themselves, whether it is emotionally or physically, you can see it on your face.
Kate Hudson
#3. Cast off everything/everyone else has known for you./Move gratefully, from these old skins./And this time, if you toughen,/decide/for whom?
Em Claire
#4. It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.
Ezra Pound
#5. Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly lies to the bone. Beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own! Create and cultivate Inner Beauty that never fades away but grows and matures with Time!
Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
#8. Here am I shedding one of my life-skins and all they will say is, 'Bernard is spending ten days in Rome'.
Virginia Woolf
#9. It was love, after all,
that rubbed the skins from their gray cheeks,
crippled their fingers,
snarled their hair, brown or dull gold.
Hate would merely have smashed them.
Margaret Atwood
#10. I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is [the doctors'] symbol.
Robertson Davies
#11. Throughout my life, I've had different metaphors for freedom. At one time, it was skin diving. In the ocean you feel weightless; you escape from gravity.
Sam Keen
#12. I felt there needed to be a show for teenagers that didn't make them feel judged. 'Skins' never tried to preach. It allowed young people to make their own decisions about what to do and whether it was right or wrong. Young people really respond to that, and that's what sets 'Skins' apart.
Kaya Scodelario
#13. It's as important to be well informed in this area, if you're going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you're going to do that.
Terence McKenna
#14. My sleeping pill is white.
It is a splendid pearl;
it floats me out of myself,
my stung skin as alien
as a loose bolt of cloth.
Anne Sexton
#15. I have always read all my reviews, the bad along with the good (although you remember the bad much more than the good!). I am just too curious to see how it's playing with the audience, and I have a thick-enough skin to handle the less charitable assessments.
Frank Spotnitz
#16. We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.
Abbey Lincoln
#17. If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
Tom Petty
#18. Let the skin be like water, let the flesh hang from the bones.
Dharma Mittra
#19. I want to look good, obviously. I don't want to look at the screen and go, Oh, my skin looks terrible, or, I look exhausted. That's why I take care of myself when I work ...
Scarlett Johansson
#20. You can shear a sheep many times, but skin him only once.
Mike McDermott
#21. Deep in the drilled-in mud of the fields behind me, our bulbs are wrapped in their brittle skins with their messages of color stored inside. Blue iris, yellow crocus, tulips of all colors.
Anna Smaill
#22. To experience the northern forest in the raw, I went to northern Finland and Lapland, travelling on horseback, and sleeping on reindeer skins in the traditional open-fronted Finnish laavu. I ate elk heart, reindeer and lingonberries, and tried out spruce resin: the chewing gum of the Stone Age.
Michelle Paver
#23. Zach Galifianakis is a comic force of nature! He is terrific. He digs down here and delivers a beautifully nuanced performance that gets under your skin. Just like the movie.
Peter Travers
#25. The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.
Fernand Braudel
#26. I hate to try to be that person in my own skin, in my own way, in my own head, not through exercises or anything else, just by, I guess, belief, concentration.
Elizabeth Taylor
#27. Thin skin is the only kind of skin human beings come with.
Meg Greenfield
#28. There are a lot of signs. One of the things that makes me most nervous is the disappearance of the frogs. They're going downhill all over the planet. Frogs are susceptible to all kinds of problems, because they require water to breed and their skin is very porous. Their condition is nerve racking.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#29. Beauty lies mainly, above all, in personality, not in the skin.
Eva Longoria
#30. I have a kitten,the drollest of all creatures that ever wore a cat's skin.
William Cowper
#31. Why would I try to change who I look like, what my race is? No. No no no. You are beautiful because that's the skin you were born with. Love it. And be proud of it.
Shay Mitchell
#32. You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.
Catherine The Great
#33. I like monsters in general - that's what I like to write about. Somebody was joking with me that my body was becoming a manual for a role-playing game because I'm covered in little monsters. That's true. I could easily have more monsters on my skin.
Maria Dahvana Headley
#34. Neither are the pig-skins, in common use to hold wine, and hung out in the sun in all directions, by any means ornamental, as they always preserve the form of very bloated pigs, with their heads and legs cut off, dangling upside-down by their own tails.
Charles Dickens
#35. I don't use specific brands really. It's just that for my skin, I need as high an SPF factor as I can get my hands on. That's the only rule.
Stella McCartney
#36. I'll go to Tracie Martyn about a week before and get the Resculpting Facial. It makes you look brighter, healthier ... like you got some extra rest. I'm 33 now and need to treat my skin, otherwise it doesn't look fresh.
Kate Winslet
#37. The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings, contradictions with the elders, nostalgia for a nonexistent Kenyan past.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
#38. was like a disease, and these children whom I loved without caring about their skins or their backgrounds, they were tainted with the hateful virus which attacked their vision, distorting everything that was not white or English. I
E.R. Braithwaite
#39. We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.
Patti Smith
#40. The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.
Vera Nazarian
#41. I enjoy getting people angry and getting underneath their skin, especially people who don't think.
Jello Biafra
#42. I absolutely get more comfortable in my body and my skin as I get older, more than when I was in my 20s
Jennifer Aniston
#43. When it comes to the skin, there are two possible ways to tighten it up: surgery, or develop the muscle underneath! It is like blowing up a balloon underneath some wrinkly sheets. It eventually pulls them tight!
Chris Powell
#44. Consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
Amy Hempel
#47. I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.
Delia Sherman
#48. The Hermit was known to be pretty sniffy about disciples who returned in failure. There was a wall of the institute layered with their skins- an ingenious display that encouraged vigor in his students, as well as nicely keeping out the drafts.
Jonathan Stroud
#49. Silk didn't care if it slid over scars or smooth, untouched skin. I'd earned my right to be paranoid.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#50. Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting.
Loretta Chase
#51. A fruit is not afraid of its own weight. It grows into its skin fully. It is whole, each part of its body equally alive.
Gayle Brandeis
#52. Who cares if there are lumps on my thighs? I'm guilty of having human legs made up of fat, muscle, and skin, and sometimes when you sit, they get bumpy!
Kristen Bell
#53. All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.
Ralph Venning
#54. A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.
E.L. Doctorow
#55. These are the screams within these are the life streams bleeding from skin
Patrick Jones
#56. I had a lot of excess skin - I just needed to have it firmed
Carnie Wilson
#57. Like sunlight under their skins, they want to be loved from the poem STAY in RidingTheEscalator
Jay Woodman
#59. Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.
Tracy Chapman
#60. I don't see my skin aging. I see my skin looking as good, or better, than it did ten years ago ... and that makes me smile.
Cindy Crawford
#61. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin
Not color'd like his own, and having pow'r
T' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause
Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.
William Cowper
#62. She would turn from him in bed, her hands under the pillow, the digital clock peeling back the old skins of numbers.
Lorrie Moore
#63. The skin of all of us is responsive to gypsy songs and military marches.
Jean Cocteau
#64. Not one woman over seventeen has any faith in her skin tone, and no woman over thirty can ever regard her upper arms with equanimity.
Cynthia Heimel
#65. There are some bad people on the rise;
they're saving their own skins by ruining people's lives.
Morrissey
#66. I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.
Sandra Cisneros
#67. In the Ondariva gardens the branches spread out like the tentacles of extraordinary animals, and the plants on the ground opened up stars of fretted leaves like the green skins of reptiles, and waved feathery yellow bamboos with a rustle like paper.
Italo Calvino
#68. Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
Henry Ward Beecher
#69. The tattoo can only exist as part of the skin, as a drawing always is an incision in the material and therefore cannot be parted from it.
Antoni Tapies
#70. One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.
Octavia Spencer
#71. Feminine spirituality is much more about the emanation of love in this moment, feeling into this moment, feeling the texture of this moment through the skin, through the body, and then letting your life become an emanation of love.
Arjuna Ardagh
#72. No, we're not prisoners of flesh, I think, bound in our skins, and only waiting for the final judgment that will send us into fire or light. We're fucking prisoners of conscience, prisoners of fear and shame. We're fucking prisoners of sorrow, and it's time for our release.
Hal Duncan
#73. An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
George Catlin
#74. All ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
Edith Sitwell
#75. For as the body is clad in the cloth, and the flesh in the skin and the bones in the flesh and the heart in the whole, so are we, soul and body, clad in the goodness of God and enclosed. Yea and more homely; for all these may wear and waste away, but the Goodness of God is ever whole.
Juliana Berners
#76. The first thing I do when I get there-like all of the players on tour-is apply sunscreen. One of the few hazards of the job is the wear-and-tear our skin takes from the sun.
Karch Kiraly
#77. As long as I don't end up hosting a skin care commercial with Cher, I'm happy.
Jon Stewart
#78. Hell, I'm looking at tattoo skins from dead people that might be my sister's. How fucked up is that?
Bobby Adair
#79. There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.
Anton Ehrenzweig
#81. Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?
James F. Cooper
#82. I have thick skin. I'm not a baby. Nothing really offends me. If there's something I think might offend me, I don't listen to it.
Larry The Cable Guy
#83. I have the thickest skin of anyone you'll ever meet. No one can say anything about me I haven't heard a million times before.
Kelly Brook
#84. My poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.
Tove Ditlevsen
#85. If one wants to be an ox one can easily turn one's back on hum suffering and look after one's own skin.
Karl Marx
#86. Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.
Louis Auchincloss
#87. Milk is about helping guys feel good about their skin and relaxed about taking care of it.
Michael Klim
#88. I'm a fan of things I can get done fast! It feels awesome because it heats up in your hand, and leaves your skin tingly and clean.
Shay Mitchell
#89. Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
Paul Valery
#91. To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with skin wrapped around it.
Fred Allen
#92. Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
George Bernard Shaw
#93. Liposuction isn't an option, because I don't have any fat under my skin. The solution? ReFirme, which is painless
Carnie Wilson
#94. But one day, you will be faced with a choice, as we all are. One day you will have to choose between your own desires, your own darkest impulses, and what you know to be right . . . and it will harden you. You will understand that all of us are devils in the skins of men.
Samantha Shannon
#95. Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.
Robinson Jeffers
#96. Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin.
Mahatma Gandhi
#97. Now that I am an adult, I'm very comfortable in my own skin. I'm a lot more settled down and I learnt to just be comfortable with where I'm at, rather than always wanting to be somewhere ahead of where I am.
Brooke Fraser
#98. Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.
Marlen Haushofer
#99. The entire 'my art is better than your art' thing really gets under my skin. The fact of the matter is: Your art IS better than my art ... at being what it is. So what? It just so happens that my art is better than your art, at being what it is.
Derek R. Audette
#100. In the newspapers I read a biography about an American. He left his whole huge fortune to factories and for the positive sciences, his skeleton to the students at the academy there, and his skin to make a drum so as to have the American national anthem drummed on it day and night.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
