Shriveled Skin Quotes

#1. When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.

Virginia Woolf

#2. A herd of old men with shriveled balls and spotted skin and young men with ridiculous hair.

George R R Martin

#3. Please understand. Please forgive me.
I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful.
Don't hate me.
I still love you.

Lauren Oliver

#4. If you can't feel grateful, if you're discouraged or depressed, then think of the fact that things could be a lot worse than they are.

Frederick Lenz

#5. The moon shone upon his almost transparent hands, and Stephen saw that the nails were fearfully long and that the light shone through them.

M.R. James

#6. Take care how you listen to the voice of the flatterer, who, in return for his little stock, expects to derive from you considerable advantage. If one day you do not comply with his wishes, be imputes to you two hundred defects instead of perfections.

Saadi

#7. He couldn't understand at all why he had let himself risk his skin for a dead shriveled-up part-nigger dwarf that had never done anything but get himself embalmed and then lain stinking in a museum the rest of his life.

Flannery O'Connor

#8. The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.

Natalie Goldberg

#9. As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

Buffalo Bill

#10. Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke.

Mark Twain