166 Quotes on Skin

• In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.

  Author: Ziyi Zhang

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

  Author: Virginia Woolf

• I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.

  Author: Debra Wilson

• Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

  Author: Wendell Willkie

• Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.

  Author: Ron White

• All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

  Author: E. White

• A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.

  Author: Paul Westerberg

• I am lucky to have good Polish skin that doesn't wrinkle so I might be around for a few years yet.

  Author: Ruby Wax

• And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

  Author: Alan Watts

• I use products from my dermatologist but the best things you can do for your skin, are not smoke always use sunscreen and drink a lot of water.

  Author: Sela Ward

• All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.

  Author: Ralph Venning

• At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

  Author: Carrie Underwood

• I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.

  Author: Skeet Ulrich

• Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

  Author: Samuel Ullman

• Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

  Author: Samuel Ullman

• I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.

  Author: Shania Twain

• What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

  Author: Mark Twain

• In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

  Author: Desmond Tutu

• There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

  Author: Lily Tomlin

• It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.

  Author: Tiberius

• In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

  Author: Taylor Swift

• The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

  Author: Gloria Steinem

• After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

  Author: Barbara Steele

• Being happy in your skin that's what it's all about.

  Author: Koo Stark

• It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

  Author: Will Smith

• There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.

  Author: Ed Smith

• My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.

  Author: Gene Simmons

• We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.

  Author: Navjot Sidhu

• I was looking for someone to formulate a skin care line I could use.

  Author: Connie Sellecca

• When I began my search for the perfect skin care to fight the aging process, I noticed that my sensitive skin was reacting horribly to any product I used.

  Author: Connie Sellecca

• My kitchen's pink, like skin-tone pink, and I lowered my spice rack so it's eye level - it's true! - and my phone, so I can reach it when I fall, it's right there.

  Author: Amy Sedaris

• In terms of jumping into a character's skin, I try to immerse myself in the role as much as possible to bring me closer to them. All I do is what's required to achieve what I want to achieve.

  Author: Dougray Scott

• There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.

  Author: Zoe Saldana

• I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.

  Author: Diana Ross

• The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

  Author: Manfred Richthofen

• I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan.

  Author: Nicole Richie

• The Death of Advertising? I think that's in the book of Revelation. It's the day when people everywhere become satisfied with their weight, their hair, their skin, their wardrobe, and their aroma.

  Author: Jef Richards

• A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin.

  Author: Charlotte Rampling

• Not to sound egomaniac or anything, but just to get under people's skin like that, and for them to believe in you and believe strongly enough to write... it's flattering and it helps you during the day.

  Author: Glenn Quinn

• I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.

  Author: Dana Plato

• Flying is awful, there's nothing to do when you're up in the air. I bloat up, my skin gets dry, and when we hit turbulence, I'm terrified.

  Author: Daniela Pestova

• Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.

  Author: Amanda Peet

• But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

  Author: Estelle Parsons

• Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.

  Author: Gwyneth Paltrow

• Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

  Author: Nam Paik

• Beauty is only skin deep.

  Author: Thomas Overbury

• It's funny that all these goths paint their faces with such white make-up and that is the actual colour of my skin, I am that pale!

  Author: Kelly Osbourne

• In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

  Author: Austin O'Malley

• Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.

  Author: Adela Nicolson

• You know a lot of what worked on this was taken from Harry Potter 2, the little Doby character, we had a lot of our skin stuff worked out and that helped a lot. We have a lot of exchange happening.

  Author: Dennis Muren

• I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash.

  Author: Rebecca Mornay

• For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

  Author: Thomas More

• You know, I don't play the race card a lot. I'm half-black, half-white, and I'm proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn't raise me as a black man. She didn't raise me as a white guy.

  Author: Shemar Moore

• Despite what anti-aging ads say, growing older can be better. I feel better in my skin, 100 percent. You have greater effects of gravity, but the better sense of yourself you have is something I wouldn't trade. Women who lie about their age - 'why?'

  Author: Demi Moore

• Being the only non-Black was a unique experience. After a few weeks, you're not aware of skin color differences. You see the color; you're not blind, but it doesn't matter. You see the human being first.

  Author: Ricardo Montalban

• Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

  Author: Michelangelo

• What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?

  Author: Michelangelo

• My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.

  Author: Ethel Merman

• Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

  Author: John McGraw

• I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.

  Author: Frank McCourt

• I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time.

  Author: Peter Mayhew

• If Bill jumps into something that relies on a lot of cymbals, I'll jump into something that relies on a lot of skin sounds; if he goes into metal tones, I'll go into wood, and so on. I basically play in his holes.

  Author: Pat Mastelotto

• The Brown decision promised that every child, regardless of the color of his or her skin, would have unequivocal access to quality education and an equal opportunity to pursue his/her dreams.

  Author: Ed Markey

• Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.

  Author: Teena Marie

• I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

  Author: Virginia Madsen

• Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

  Author: Douglas MacArthur

• NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

  Author: Joanna Lumley

• Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

  Author: Jennifer Lopez

• The roles for South Asians may have increased by a decent number but there has been a negligible change in the quality of these roles. We still have to fight stereotypes. Fortunately, I've had the priviledge of working with people who look beyond the color of your skin.

  Author: Lavrenti Lopes

• Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

  Author: Annie Lennox

• It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.

  Author: John Lennon

• Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that.

  Author: Nigella Lawson

• The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.

  Author: Judge Lane

• The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?

  Author: Richard Land

• That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

  Author: Hans Kung

• I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Author: Martin King, Jr.

• I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Author: Martin King, Jr.

• But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you're all covered up in this heat, you're gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It's sweaty in Miami-but the diamonds will keep me cool.

  Author: Lil' Kim

• Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde.

  Author: Nicole Kidman

• When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to heal, so that you can skin them again.

  Author: Nikita Khrushchev

• I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

  Author: Jean Kerr

• If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

  Author: Robert Kennedy

• Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

  Author: John Kennedy

• I love you more than my own skin.

  Author: Frida Kahlo

• The discoloration is very minimal. I have not turned blue. The extent of skin discoloration is not even remotely near what the news media are saying. It is barely noticeable.

  Author: Stan Jones

• I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

  Author: Keith Jarrett

• The only difference between me and those other great Yankees is my skin color.

  Author: Reggie Jackson

• I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?

  Author: Michael Jackson

• Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

  Author: Mahalia Jackson

• So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

  Author: Jesse Jackson

• I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

  Author: John Irving

• You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.

  Author: Amy Irving

• It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

  Author: Natalie Imbruglia

• A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.

  Author: Elizabeth Hurley

• The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

  Author: Kin Hubbard

• Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

  Author: Vernon Howard

• Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

  Author: A. Housman

• If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

  Author: A. Housman

• We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.

  Author: Bell Hooks

• A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.

  Author: Oliver Holmes, Jr.

• I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home.

  Author: Judy Holliday

• Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.

  Author: Steven Hill

• In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

  Author: Robert Herrick

• Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour?

  Author: Keith Henson

• Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.

  Author: Matthew Henry

• Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colors that are but skin-deep.

  Author: Matthew Henry

• You know how you wake up in the morning and sometimes you look gorgeous and other times you look like you got hit by a mack truck? I realized that my mack truck is food. If I have no sugar, yeast or wine, I have no undereye bags and my skin is perfect.

  Author: Mariska Hargitay

• I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.

  Author: Pauline Hanson

• Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.

  Author: Steve Guttenberg

• Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

  Author: Che Guevara

• That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.

  Author: Pam Grier

• The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.

  Author: Macy Gray

• You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

  Author: Sheilah Graham

• The hardened mass of liquid stones had much stronger qualities than those which had simply torn. The skin remained a recognisable part of the molten stone.

  Author: Andy Goldsworthy

• I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

  Author: Richard Gere

• You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

  Author: Charles Gaulle

• The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

  Author: Marcus Garvey

• The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.

  Author: Janeane Garofalo

• Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

  Author: Lucian Freud

• A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.

  Author: Virginia Foxx

• Dressed in the lion's skin, the ass spread terror far and wide.

  Author: Jean Fontaine

• Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

  Author: Jean Fontaine

• Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

  Author: F. Fitzgerald

• Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

  Author: Paul Engle

• I knew exactly what I was, and there was no hang-up with me. None whatsoever. The fact that the pigment of my skin maybe being lighter brown than other people of my race, maybe some of them, but you know our race has all colors.

  Author: Billy Eckstine

• I'm a lot more grounded now, a lot more settled in my skin.

  Author: Clea Duvall

• To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.

  Author: Vincent D'Onofrio

• Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.

  Author: Cory Doctorow

• It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.

  Author: Phyllis Diller

• Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

  Author: Cameron Diaz

• In this movie, you have all the things you love from Tim. All the magic and the whimsy and the surreal, but he also has a fantastic story of a father and son that really gets under your skin.

  Author: Danny DeVito

• May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.

  Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.

• We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.

  Author: Glenn Danzig

• Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.

  Author: Courteney Cox

• On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.

  Author: Doug Coupland

• I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

  Author: Leonard Cohen

• We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

  Author: Joe Chung

• Burglars know there's more than one way to skin a vault.

  Author: James Chiles

• The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

  Author: Henri Cartier-Bresson

• I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.

  Author: Tia Carrere

• Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

  Author: James Caan

• I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.

  Author: Gisele Bundchen

• There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

  Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

• Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?

  Author: Sitting Bull

• I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.

  Author: Jeff Buckley

• Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.

  Author: Mel Brooks

• I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience.

  Author: Lorraine Bracco

• I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.

  Author: Lara Boyle

• On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

  Author: Erma Bombeck

• Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

  Author: Ambrose Bierce

• Being someone I'm not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else's skin.

  Author: Jessica Biel

• I love being someone I'm not for a period of time. I love every minute of being in someone else's skin.

  Author: Jessica Biel

• Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.

  Author: Robert Benchley

• Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen.

  Author: Michael Behe

• Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.

  Author: Glenn Beck

• The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

  Author: Djuna Barnes

• The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

  Author: Benjamin Banneker

• I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.

  Author: Jean Auel

• Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

  Author: Paddy Ashdown

• Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

  Author: Richard Armour

• The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

  Author: David Antin

• None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

  Author: Marian Anderson

• Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

  Author: Thomas Aldrich

• A thick skin is a gift from God.

  Author: Konrad Adenauer

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