Skins Quotes - Page 10

Homophobia's just one form of abjection, and wherever you have a marker of deviance - skin colour, gender, gender identity, disability - you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.

Yes, we should not forget that the five senses are one. And all of them extensions of the skin

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.

My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.

Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!

As Conservatives, We Don't Care About The Color of Your Skin, We Care About The Color of Our Flag

It helps to think of soil as a living organism covered with skin like a human. We can live with a certain percentage of our skin damaged, but if too high a percentage is damaged, we die. So, too, does soil and thus most life

There’s blood beneath every layer of skin.

We're all brothers and sisters. It doesn't matter what language you speak or what color your skin is.

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

Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

My skin is an art gallery right, with paintings and crucifixes hoping to save me from all the dangers in the music business

I have a fantastic method for anti-ageing. It's eating. Plumps out your skin beautifully.

The skin of a python is no less precious to the snake than fur is to the fox.

Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.

I spent 30 minutes each morning rubbing my body with half a lemon to lighten my skin.

He smelt of the sun, as if it had seeped deep into his skin, and I found myself inhaling silently, as if he were something delicious.

We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.

The white blouse can be light and floating, impeccable and austere, sumptuous and all-enveloping, tight and close-fitting. It rises up to frame the face. It sculpts the body by transforming itself into a second skin. Imputed with glamour and poetry, freedom and impetuousness, the prim white shirt turns out to have a thousand identities.

Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

Wonder is like grace, in that it's not a condition we grasp; it grasps us. Wonder is not an obligatory element in the search for truth. We can seek truth without wonder's assistance. But seek is all we'll do; there will be no finding. Unless wonder descends, unlocks us ... truth is unable to enter. Wonder may be the aura of truth, the halo of it. Or something even closer. Wonder may be the caress of truth, touching our very skin.

You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff.