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Quotes About Skin

And he still has clothes on, which means it couldn't have burned his skin in too many places. He'll be fine." "Yeah, good that," Newt replied with a sarcastic chuckle. "Remind me not to hire you as my buggin' doctor anytime soon.
~ James Dashner
And the careful manipulation of the occluding edges of clothing with progressive revealing of skin is a form of the theatrical art called stripping.
~ James J. Gibson
She smiled and Joe was touched suddenly by the very special beauty of a lady at the far, far end of her youth - old age just under the surface of her skin, but not yet emerged, not yet.
~ James Leo Herlihy
The biblical counselor must always remember that the ROOT problem is deeper than skin; it is sin. The ultimate cure is not culture, but Christ.
~ James MacDonald
What happened to your tan?"--Fang "It was dirt." --Max
~ James Patterson
Her eyes--lined with black makeup--stared blankly at the ceiling; and her tan was obviously sprayed on since her skin had a healthy apricot glow even though the top of her head was missing.
~ Donna Tartt
All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.
~ Doris Lessing
The knowledgeable gypsy eyes scanned the dairy-maid skin, the gilded hair, the long hands, jewelled to display their beauty while the Master, serenely smiling, returned the compliment under relaxed lids.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.
~ Dorothy West
In the most deadly variety of smallpox, the hemorrhagic form, called the bloody pox or black pox, the skin turns a deep purple or takes on a charred look, and comes off in sheets. The victim often "bleeds out," blood pouring from every orifice in the body. It is extremely contagious. Unlike most other viruses, smallpox can survive and remain virulent for months or years outside the body in clothing, blankets, and sickrooms.
~ Douglas Preston
With a living canvas such as human skin, whether or not a tattoo artist could produce a work of art that satisfied him depended in great measure upon the subject. The ideal, of course, was pale, velvety, fine-grained skin without a single birthmark, scar, or blemish.
~ Akimitsu Takagi
Even after a work-of-art tattoo was located, the problems were just beginning. The next obstacle in the collector's path was obtaining a contract for posthumous conveyance of the tattoo. The potential difficulty of this cannot be overemphasized, for people tend to be passionately attached to their own skins, even after death.
~ Akimitsu Takagi
At least, he thought, looking down at his feet, his socks were still in decent shape. It was the socks that went first. A whore he knew said that she only took customers whose socks were in good condition. One of Casson's fellow lodgers showed him how he used a pen to color in the skin that showed white in the holes.
~ Alan Furst
Misery is a routine you can learn to live with. It's like rain. Once you're soaked to the skin, you can't get any wetter.
~ Alan Gibbons
Privately held," Vail said. "Meaning we don't know much about their operations. Their financing, investors, the people with skin in the game.
~ Alan Jacobson
skintight layer of clothing that extends from my feet to my neck that's supposed to help improve my hypertrophic scarring. The Iron Maiden describes hypertrophic scarring as skin that exhibits the three Rs of being red,
~ Alan Russell
Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.
~ Alane Ferguson
The best photographers know how to light any color skin.
~ Edward Enninful
I don't do facials - I don't really enjoy people picking at my skin. I'd rather a dermatologist who's a doctor for that do that.
~ Hailey Baldwin
I'm on many a pill for my skin... I feel like that's cheating but when I turned 18, out of nowhere I got acne.
~ Sasha Spielberg
I do my best to use all-natural type of products. I find that Perricone has really nice face cream. I find they have good facial products. Whenever I have a pimple, their products clear them up and make my skin nice and clean. Also, Kiehl's Ultra Facial Oil-Free Gel-Cream.
~ Christina Milian
As moisturizers, oils rapidly penetrate the deeper layers of the skin, protecting against the breakdown of proteins in the cell wall with fatty and linoleic acids, mimicking what our bodies produce naturally. The oils also function as humectants, which help our skin retain moisture.
~ Isabel Gillies
The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.
~ Macy Gray
I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.
~ Uzo Aduba