Unskinned Quotes

#1. We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last.

T. S. Eliot

#2. Some guys smoke. Some guys drink. Some guys chase women.
I'm a big barbecue-sauce guy.

Rick Majerus

#3. What I wanted was to bang by forehead against the steering wheel till it bled. Maybe the self-inflicted pain would help me clear my thought process.

Sue Grafton

#4. In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient.

Henry Charles Carey

#5. Have a little faith in your sons. This journey will be the making of them.

C.J. Milbrandt

#6. The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.

Geoffrey Faber

#7. No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.

Frederick The Great

#8. Meeting with the director is an audition.

Chandler Massey

#9. To see God everywhere is to see Him nowhere.

Cormac McCarthy

#10. The girl who'd written volumes on the walls but never said a word.

Sarah Ockler