Skin Quotes

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. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
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. View quote
Paddy Ashdown
Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. View quote
Jennifer Lopez
The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. View quote
Kin Hubbard
Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. View quote
Roland Barthes
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic. View quote
Lily Tomlin
Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
I love you more than my own skin. View quote
Frida Kahlo
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. View quote
Che Guevara
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin. View quote
Mark Twain
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. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin. View quote
Zoe Saldana
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. View quote
Mel Brooks
It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. View quote
Tiberius
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose. View quote
Gene Simmons
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. View quote
Carrie Underwood
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin. View quote
Gloria Steinem
The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment. View quote
Djuna Barnes
The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness. View quote
Marcus Garvey
Gradually the magic of the island settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen. Each day had a tranquillity, a timelessness, about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us, glossy and colourful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality. (Gerald Durrell)
To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time. View quote
E. B. White
Where the lions skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the foxs. View quote
Plutarch
She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin. View quote
Heinrich Heine