Stripped Bare Quotes

#1. Our accents are clothing for our thoughts, my dear," Wayne said. "Without them, everything we say would be stripped bare, and we might as well be screaming at one another. Oh

Brandon Sanderson

#2. One of the most striking of abstract art's appearances is her nakedness, an art stripped bare.

Robert Motherwell

#3. Keep in mind, we are past the age of enlightenment. This is past reason. We are pretty deep into modern history and the decline of religion. This is when nature itself has been stripped bare of its cozy personality and we all feel homeless in our natures as well.

"The Limits Of The World

Diane Williams

#4. I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.

Rachel Hunter

#5. Don't." She looks directly into my eyes. After a month of being forced to avoid her, I feel stripped bare by her gaze. "You can be as much of a charming bastard as you want, but you're never going to bullshit your way into my heart again.

Holly Black

#6. I was practically The Boy in the Bubble; all my autoimmune responses stripped bare by chemical representations of pine forests and summer meadows.

Matthew Crow

#7. To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.

Melissa Etheridge

#8. I don't want this," Sirus uttered, his voice stripped bare.
"Me either." Grey sounded as if he were in agony.
Swearing, they flew at each other in a furious kiss.

Cameron Dane

#9. All the words we use are stripped bare, so that no one ever knows what anyone else is saying, so that all kindness is cruelty, all selfishness generous, all care callous.

David Levithan

#10. We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Winston Churchill

#11. God is light, we are told, and Hell is outer darkness. But look at a desert mountain stripped bare by the sun, and you learn only geography. Watch darkness claim it, and for a moment you may grasp why God had to create Satan - or man to create both.

Colin Fletcher

#12. It is an issue, and whether you get past it now or try to hold out is up to you. Just be aware that when I do finally get my hands on you, you're going to be stripped bare, body and soul.

Kat Black

#13. If anything, revenge is the absence of emotion. It's pure, calculated thought stripped bare of entangling emotions. It's cold, deliberate action.

Carrie Ryan

#14. Certain people, in their eagerness to construct a world no external threat can penetrate build exaggeratedly high defense againts the outside world, againts new people, new places, different experiences and leave their own world stripped bare. It is there that bitterness begins irrevocable work.

Paulo Coelho

#15. Looks to me like Felicity didn't enjoy being mauled, Daniel pointed out reasonably. When what he reasonably wanted to do, was shove Stuart's head so far up his ass the next time he gargled he'd give himself a colonic. -Felicity Stripped Bare

Vanessa Jaye

#16. Could I write an autobiographical novel, I wonder? Can one make a book out of the very essence of one's self? Perhaps so, if one was left with one's gift stripped bare of all that made it worth having, and nothing else was left ...

Vera Brittain

#17. What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#18. You've experienced the single scene out there - it's blood test and background checks and references and 'Please pee in this cup before we can go on a date' screenings, all clinical and stripped bare of any romance.

Katie MacAlister

#19. I won't always be the odd ones going round and round in our owe little squirrel cage!

Corinne Willis

#20. When you have stripped yourself bare like the trees in the fall season you will be standing totally barren with nothing to hide

GS. Subbu

#21. You can't kill anything that's always moving and changing

Ally Condie

#22. When I kissed you the day I left, I swear to God you stripped me bare.

Scarlett Cole

#23. It's only through the degradation of the soul that you can know who you really are; when all else is stripped away, leaving you bare." Somehow, his black eyes darkened, the venom in his words more deadly than a viper's bite. "Let me degrade you, Katherine.

Dianna Hardy

#24. Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Warren Bennis

#25. Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at your core. And both endings are equally painful.

J.R. Ward

#26. Aladdin's lamp is mine.

Ira Gershwin

#27. I have had so many bad auditions.

Ethan Hawke

#28. Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people
because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it
I don't care how good you are.

Bruce Lee

#29. You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

Paul McCartney

#30. Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather ...

Katherine Anne Porter

#31. Women who go into the harem do not come out. It is a permanent position." [...]
"I am not going in as a woman. I am going in as an assassin. So we have nothing to fear.

Kiersten White

#32. There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.

G.K. Chesterton

#33. In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves

Susanna Kaysen

#34. I am not romantic. I am stripped of romance as bare as the white tenters in that field are of cloth.

Charlotte Bronte

#35. She hated him then. Hated the way he stripped her bare. The way he knew her failings before she knew them herself.

Sarah MacLean

#36. So far he'd been there for three hours, hadn't gotten a thing done, was heading out for a free lunch, and was getting paid for it. Jobs were awesome.

J.P. Barnaby

#37. The Universal Declaration ... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations ... it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on these matters, but it has also influenced the thinking of legislators all over the world.

Dag Hammarskjold

#38. I don't think I'd feel any more violated if he'd stripped me bare. I might as well have lain down before him openly exposing all my flaws and my fears, inviting him to psychoanalyze me.

Siobhan Davis

#39. Only when you can understand yourself as All Pervading Consciousness can you possibly understand that all the universe is an emanation of your mind. Everything that you see comes out of you.

Robert Adams

#40. How much the pain grew inside him after Ossie died until the only way to deal with it was to throw himself into the fray. And the whole time, Vanessa's body was wrapped around him like she was the only one being strong as a shield while he stripped his life bare.

Melissa Cutler