Thick Hide Quotes

#1. I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
[Writer's Digest, September 1961]

Harper Lee

#2. I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say.

Thomas Sowell

#3. A thick hide is a gift from God.

Konrad Adenauer

#4. My parents wanted me to go to law school.

Sasha Alexander

#5. The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.

Robertson Davies

#6. Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.

Jon Postel

#7. Breathe and relax.

Danielle Barone

#8. The Congressional Black Caucus is a moral fraud. It's amazing how many people are afraid of saying that

Dennis Prager

#9. It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.

Madeleine L'Engle

#10. And what if I don't want forgiveness?

Erica Jong

#11. My mother used to say that rain here pours like a blessing, like a thick veil that parts to reveal the bride's face. But nearly every day, when this rain parted, it revealed a long line of soldiers, like you, like death, marching toward us, and we would scatter with a practiced silence and hide.

Mia Kirshner

#12. The more spiritual successes that Edwards experienced, the more he seemed to intentionally infuse his sermons with language deemed to move a person's emotional center - their souls - to spiritually and physically respond.

Matthew Paul Turner

#13. Some things you just can't hide, no matter how thick the material.

Christine Fonseca

#14. I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age ... The evils it guards against are not only old, they are with us now, they exist today.

Hugo Black

#15. Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

Eleanor Roosevelt

#16. The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient ... allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence.

Edzard Ernst

#17. The more you hide, the higher the walls around you gets. The more you cry in silence, the thicker it becomes.

Akshay Vasu

#18. The truth would set her free. Only then would she be able to get on with her life.

Jackie Collins

#19. I didn't choose to be the guy who talks about the mundane - it's just who I am and it's what kind of works for me.

Jim Gaffigan

#20. An artists job is to see. And to go out in the world and see it firsthand, just as it is; to report with line and words what is seen. To be in the world, not just study about the world, that is the artists task

Robert Fulghum

#21. He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.

John Steinbeck

#22. Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.

Mariella Frostrup