Skins Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• But it didn't stop him from loving her just a little. From loving all women-all shapes, all sizes, all walks of life. Their soft skin and softer curves, the way they gasped and giggled and sighed, the way the wealthy ones played their coy games, and the less fortunate ones looked at him, stars in their eyes, eager for his attention. Women were, without a doubt, the Lord's finest creation. And, at twenty-three, he had plans for a lifetime of worshipping them.

  Sarah MacLean

  Stars, Eye, Loving Life

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• Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn't need time to figure it. The soul always knows... whether it's right or wrong.

  J. Lynn

  Two, People, Soul

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• The hospital room was as cold as dead skin, the hallway crowded with lost souls and reeking of illness.

  Raquel Cepeda

  Soul, Rooms, Cold

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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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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• He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery.

  Lisa Ling

  Dwarves, Bird, Agitation

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• Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for skin Wind for mind.

  Nanao Sakaki

  Song, Flower, Eye

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• Pain is as common as skin, we all experience it. It unites us all. Fortunately, that's not the whole story.

  Michael Gungor

  Pain, Stories, Common

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• My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones.

  Ellen Barkin

  Skin And Bones, Nicknames, Bones

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• I owe the quality of my skin to my cosmetic surgeon.

  Cindy Crawford

  Quality, Cosmetics, Surgeons

  "Cindy owes her model beauty to her surgeon" by Daniel Dasey, www.smh.com.au. August 27, 2006.

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• People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I did not think of being physically tired. My feet were not hurting. I was tired in a different way. I was tired of seeing so many men treated as boys and not called by their proper names or titles. I was tired of seeing children and women mistreated and disrespected because of the color of their skin. I was tired of Jim Crow laws, of legally enforced racial segregation.

  Rosa Parks

  Hurt, Children, Giving Up

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• I'm very uncomfortable in my own skin.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Uncomfortable, My Own

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• The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.

  Herodotus

  Hair, Noses, Lips

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• In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would
  make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
  rights.

  Julius Nyerere

  Believe, Men, Rights

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• What comfort there is in the skin of someone you love!

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Comfort, Someone You Love, One You Love

  Erich Maria Remarque (2014). “The Night in Lisbon: A Novel”, p.67, Random House

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• The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . .

  Andy Warhol

  Self, Despair, Skin And Bones

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I ask you and all the leaders of the world: Would you act differently, would you keep silent and do nothing if you were in our place? Would you not resist if you were allowed no rights in your own country because the color of your skin is different to that of the rulers, and if you were punished for even asking for equality? I appeal to you, and through you to all the countries of the world, to do everything you can to stop the coming tragedy. I appeal to you to save the lives of our leaders, to empty the prisons of all those who should never have been there.

  Miriam Makeba

  Country, Countries Of The World, Rights

  "Honoring Mama Africa: Angélique Kidjo Pays Tribute to South African Singer, Activist Miriam Makeba". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. November 3, 2014.

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• You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in her entire wardrobe. But over my own dead body will I spend my own time and money turning you into a clone of some brain-dead waste of skin who thinks the pinnacle of achievement is selling her wedding shots to a magazine.

  Tana French

  Thinking, Achievement, Brain

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• I put a What Would Jesus Do bracelet on my Jewish friend's wrist and it burned his skin. He threw it on the ground, it turned into a serpent, we both started laughing. We left it there, we hate snakes. We think they're slimy, even though we know they're not.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Jesus, Hate

  "Completely Serious". Comedy album by Daniel Tosh, June 17, 2007.

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• The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he squats and rocks, shifting his weight from foot to foot, his heart racing, pounding inside the fellow's ribs, his teeth chattering. He dreads some grisly death. But the skin of a brave soldier never blanches. He's all control. Tense but no great fear.

  Homer

  Fear, Heart, Rocks

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• Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial respect and understanding. It seemed as if the dream of a color-blind society was within reach in the jazz world, where musicians were judged on merit and not skin color.

  Randy Sandke

  Dream, Dark, Rights

  Randy Sandke (2010). “Where the dark and the light folks meet: race and the mythology, politics, and business of jazz”, Scarecrow Pr

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• You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.

  William Anders

  Baseball, Glowing, Flames

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• I like pastels and lighter shades on darker skins. I feel like it lifts everything and accentuates being chocolate.

  Laura Mvula

  Chocolate, Shade, Accentuate

  "Laura Mvula on why she, like many black women, shaves her head". Interview with Anita Bhagwandas, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2013.

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• It's hard to feel comfortable in your own skin when you're younger.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Feels, Comfortable In Your Own Skin, Hard

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• Deep, dark unearthly black. I hadn't told anyone yet, but the color kept streaking across my mind at the oddest moments. When it did, my skin shivered pleasantly, and it was as if I could feel the color tracing a finger tenderly along my jaw, tipping my chin up to face it directly. I knew it was absurd to think a color would come to life, but once or twice, I was sure I'd caught a flash of something more substantial behind the color. A pair of eyes. The way they studied me cut to the heart.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Eye, Heart, Cutting

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.578, Simon and Schuster

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