Skins Quotes - Page 17

• Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Reality, Heal, Fragile

  Jonathan Lethem (2011). “Motherless Brooklyn: A Novel”, p.58, Vintage

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• By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know. All I wanted was to hold my assumptions to the light, and to watch them sparkle in their facets, as all sham gemstones do.

  Darin Strauss

  Light, Watches, Camouflage

  Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.101, Random House

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• I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  France, Handbags, Umbrella

  Speaking to onMilwaukee.com, February 1, 2005.

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• I'm less interested in skin than in fascia -- connective tissue.

  Matthew Barney

  Tissues

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• No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion.

  Nelson Mandela

  Wisdom, Hate, Education And Freedom

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2016

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• I’m not for profiling people on the color of their skin or on their religion. But I would take into account where they've been traveling and perhaps you might indirectly have to take into account whether or not they've been going to radical political speeches by religious leaders. It wouldn't be that they are Islamic. But if someone is attending speeches from someone who is promoting the violent overthrow of our government, that’s really an offense that we should be going after. They should be deported or put in prison.

  Rand Paul

  Religious, Islamic, Government

  "Does Rand Paul Really Want to Imprison People for Attending Speeches?". "The Sean Hannity Show", reason.com. June 2, 2011.

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• 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.

  Bill Bryson

  Travel, Judging, Sound

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• There comes a voluptuous moment when the senses and the whole skin tingle with a sharpened awareness of the body and the world around.

  Anton Ehrenzweig

  World, Body, Moments

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• I appear at times merry and in good heart, talk, too, before others quite reasonably, and it looks as if I felt, too, God knows how well within my skin. Yet the soul maintains its deathly sleep and the heart bleeds from a thousand wounds.

  Hugo Wolf

  Depression, Heart, Sleep

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• The other thing is that women my age know that looks are only skin deep. They don't matter. What matters is who you are. Hopefully at the end of the day, you're a good person. That's what counts.

  Marcia Hines

  Women, What Matters, The End Of The Day

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• I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars.

  Curt Schilling

  Cancer, Dollars, Cost

  "MLB great Curt Schilling thriving in second career". "Hannity" with Rich Lowry, www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2012.

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• It's so important to encourage the use of sun cream, tan in a bottle and the disuse of sun beds which are known world-wide as causes of skin cancer.

  Peter Andre

  Cancer, Important, Bed

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• With the early prototypes, I held the phone to my ear and my ear [would] dial the number. You have to detect all sorts of ear-shapes and chin shapes, skin colour and hairdo... that was one of just many examples where we really thought, perhaps this isn’t going to work.

  Jonathan Ive

  Phones, Numbers, Example

  "Apple design chief: We nearly scrapped iPhone" By Rory Anderson, www.cnn.com. August 3, 2012.

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• Surely nowhere in the world do oppression and persecution based solely on the color of the skin appear more hateful and hideous than in the capital of the United States, because the chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawn so wide and deep.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Believe, Color, Government

  What It Means to be Colored in Capital of the U.S., delivered 10 October 1906, United Women's Club, Washington, D.C.

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• Colour is the skin of the world.

  Sonia Delaunay

  World, Colour

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• We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages than we have been human. Our identity is a dream. We are process, not reality.

  Loren Eiseley

  Dream, Sleep, Reality

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• From Heaven I fall, though from earth I begin.
  No lady alive can show such a skin.
  I'm bright as an angel, and light as a feather,
  But heavy and dark, when you squeeze me together.
  Though candor and truth in my aspect I bear,
  Yet many poor creatures I help to insnare.
  Though so much of Heaven appears in my make,
  The foulest impressions I easily take.
  My parent and I produce one another,
  The mother the daughter, the daughter the mother.

  James Parton

  Daughter, Mother, Fall

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

  Maneka Gandhi

  Python, Snakes, Fur

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• Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; its respect for contingency, and the unlikely and odd; its willingness to expose itself to moments of low, almost animal being and make them nobly illuminating, can deliver truths we might not otherwise stumble on.

  David Malouf

  Animal, Unseen, New Life

  David Malouf (2011). “The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World”, p.87, Black Inc.

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• If this earth should ever be destroyed, it will be by desire, by the lust of pleasure and self-gratification, by greed of the green frog skin, by people who are mindful of their own self, forgetting about the wants of others.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Self, People, Greed

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• Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. Its essence is the realisation by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression - the blackness of their skin - and to operate as a group to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them to perpetual servitude.

  Steven Biko

  Brother, Attitude, Men

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• There are two things that really get under Gary Neville's skin: scousers and policemen.

  Rio Ferdinand

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• I protect my skin with sunscreen and am religious about keeping my face moisturized and properly protected all day, so I also use a face lotion with SPF 30.

  Amanda Beard

  Religious, Use, Faces

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• I was interested in how we engage the world. How do we use our skin as our eyes? If you read a cityscape or a landscape with just your mind, and not your body, it becomes like a picture or representation, not something you really engage with.

  Olafur Eliasson

  Eye, Mind, Use

  "Water, Water" by Calvin Tomkins, www.newyorker.com. June 23, 2008.

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• Different types of chicken come at different price points. Filets are going to be more expensive. If it's bone-in and skin-on it's going to be less expensive.

  Sandra Lee

  Different, Bones, Chickens

  Interview with Kathryn Jezer-Morton, www.askmen.com.

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