Skins Quotes - Page 32

• You know, I dont play the race card a lot. Im half-black, half-white, and Im proud of - my skin is brown. The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didnt raise me as a black man. She didnt raise me as a white guy.

  Shemar Moore

  Mother, Men, Race

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• Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them. Stretch it as thin as the temple flesh of an ailing woman and still it serves to ache the bone and to move the bone about; and in like manner the night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in a torment. We will find no comfort until the night melts away; until the fury of the night rots out its fire.

  Djuna Barnes

  Moving, Night, Fire

  Djuna Barnes (1995). “Nightwood: The Original Version and Related Drafts”

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• Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense.

  Maryam d'Abo

  Recovery, People, Layers

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• In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.

  Maryam d'Abo

  Brain, Layers, Common

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• Vampires are so old that they don't need to impress anyone anymore. They're comfortable in their own skin. It's this enigmatic strength that's very romantic and old-fashioned. I think it goes back to something of a Victorian attitude of finding a strong man who's going to look after his woman.

  Stephen Moyer

  Strong, Attitude, Men

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• I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Nice, Clothes, Creating

  "How I get dressed" by Neil Norman, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2008.

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• Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

  Adam McKay

  Thinking, Skin Color, Judging

  "A Letter for McCain Supporters’ Eyes Only" by Adam McKay, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2008.

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• Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have the miserable conviction the we alone suffer to the point of unbearable intensity. Unhappiness is always to feel oneself imprisoned in one's own skin, in one's own brain.

  Jacques Lusseyran

  Thinking, Brain, Suffering

  Jacques Lusseyran (2016). “Against the Pollution of the I: On the Gifts of Blindness, the Power of Poetry, and the Urgency of Awareness”, p.143, New World Library

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• I believe inter -racial marriages show the world that the color of a person's skin is of no consequence. The more such marriages there are, the more people will come into direct contact with such couples. This benefits peace in the world where so much conflict and hatred is based on racial and religious differences

  Robert S. Jepson, Jr.

  Religious, Couple, Believe

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• A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Family, Men, Names

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• It's hard... to shake off something that's already under your skin.

  Thomas Harris

  Shakes, Hard

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• Why would I try to change who I look like, what my race is? No. No no no. You are beautiful because that’s the skin you were born with. Love it. And be proud of it.

  Shay Mitchell

  Beautiful, Race, Trying

  "Women We Love: Shay Mitchell". www.esquire.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Our devil has pale skin and blue eyes

  Jose Angel Gutierrez

  Eye, Blue, Pale Skin

  John C. Hammerback, Richard J. Jensen, Jose Angel Gutierrez (1985). “A War of Words: Chicano Protest in the 1960s and 1970s”, Praeger Pub Text

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• Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring they had made; The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.

  Lucretius

  Men, Sky, Fire

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at no prey at all. Bonnie with her hair that was called something strawberry but that looked simply as if it was on fire. Bonnie of the translucent skin with the delicate violet fjords and estuaries of veins all over her throat and inner arms. Bonnie who had lately taken to looking at him sideways with her large childlike eyes big and brown under lashes like stars...

  L. J. Smith

  Hurt, Stars, Taken

  L J Smith (2010). “Nightfall”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• It was very strange, for I knew we were both in mortal danger. Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest, the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again. My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin. It was like there had never been any hole in my chest. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had been no wound in the first place.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Sweet, Heart, Blood

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• 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.

  John McGraw

  Kindness, Men, Demand

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

  Skeet Ulrich

  People, Want, Questioning

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• A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to sob for such beauty.Clothing drops like leaves."No one makes poetry,my Mme.Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah,"I whisper. She smiles: "We'll shape it withour souls."Desire illuminates the dark manuscriptof our skin with beetles and butterflies.After the lightning and rain has ceased,after the lightning and rain of lovemakinghas ceased, Selah will dive again into thesunflower-open river.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Love, Rain, Butterfly

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• Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to tell me; no example inside my first and only skin. That love is the heritage, and cousin to death. That the only love can only be the first love, the only death the last, the only life within, and the only word . . . choked forever.

  Jack Kerouac

  Love, Dream, Cousin

  Jack Kerouac (2017). “Maggie Cassidy”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• That, you know, is why the world exists at all. It remains outside the cosmic garbage can of nothingness, not because it is such a solemn necessity that nobody can get rid of it, but because it is the orange peel hung on God's chandelier, the wishbone in His kitchen closet. He likes it; therefore, it stays. The whole marvelous collection of stones, skins, feathers, and string exists because at least one lover has never quite taken His eye off it, because the Dominus vivificans has his delight with the sons of men.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Love, Taken, Eye

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• The great black and white draftsman, the sculptor, and the blind man know that form and color are separate. The form itself is what the blind man knows...Color is surface skin that fits over the form.

  John French Sloan

  Black And White, Men, Color

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• 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?

  Richard Land

  Cat, Grandmother, Aunt

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• If you or I want to be healthy (whether it's our digestion, our reproduction, our skin, or anything) we have to assume greater responsibility for our wellness. One of the best ways to do that is to be familiar with and to use on a regular basis, plant medicines.

  Chris Kilham

  Responsibility, Plant Medicine, Healthy

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• The Stormlight rising from his exposed skin was enough to illuminate the chasm, and it cast shadows on the walls as he ran. Those seemed to become figures, crafted by the bones and branches stretching from the heaps on the ground. Bodies and souls. His movement made the shadows twist, as if turning to regard him.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Wall, Soul, Shadow

  Brandon Sanderson (2014). “Words of Radiance: Book Two of the Stormlight Archive”, p.496, Tor Books

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