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Quotes About Skin

My body was prickly with fear sweat as I lay in the gathering morning light and listened to the slender spindles of malice whining away in the distance. i thought how that shudder was under the skin of everybody in the world, not in the mind, deep under the skin. It's not the jets so much as what their purpose is.
~ John Steinbeck
She shook her head slowly from side to side. "I'm jus' pain covered with skin.
~ John Steinbeck
Her face, seen so close, is built of great flats of skin pressed clean of color except for a burnish of yellow that adds to their size mineral weight, the weight of some pure porous stone carted straight from quarries to temples. Words come from this monumental Ruth in the same scale, as massive wheels rolling to the porches of his ears, as mute coins spinning in the light. "You have it pretty good.
~ John Updike
Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
~ Landon Donovan
He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.
~ Unknown
Beneath his fine skin the bold construction, the feudal architecture were apparent. His head made one think of those old dungeon keeps on which the disused battlements are still to be seen, although inside they have been converted into libraries.
~ Marcel Proust
I was drinking tequila, and I was drinking grappa, which is Italian for gasoline. And I was drinking Jägermeister, which I believe is the liquid equivalent of Wonder Woman's golden lasso, because it will make you tell anybody the truth for no reason whatsoever. "You have really bad skin. Thanks for the drink."
~ Margaret Cho
I tatuaggi sono segni nuovi scelti da te. Metti qualcosa tra la tua pelle e il destino. Un sorso di coraggio.
~ Margaret Mazzantini
At night, forgotten words tried to reach me. I listened with my skin. Words tore my skin off, crept inside me, and nestled down. I was a mass of wounds. When I opened my mouth in front of the mirror, beasts lay asleep in my throat; they'd made it their home.
~ Unknown
I stayed under the moon too long. I am silvered with lust. Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes. My voice is trees tossing in the wind. I loose myself like a flock of blackbirds storming into your face. My lightest touch leaves blue prints, bruises on your mind. Desire sandpapers your skin so thin I read the veins and arteries maps of routes I will travel till I lodge in your spine. The night is our fur. We curl inside it licking.
~ Marge Piercy
A cloud of bugs settled around me. Swathes of mosquitoes landed on my arm, tickled my skin, and took off. Why didn't they bite? Professional courtesy, I guess.
~ Unknown
While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impact. Nutritional deficiencies as well as excesses can worsen acne.
~ Mark E. Hyman
The finest clothing made is a person's skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
~ Mark Twain
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.
~ Mark Twain
The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
~ Mark Twain
I am a vicious and unrepentant killer who should be locked up. With him, my idiot boyfriend.
~ Unknown
He's sitting casually at my kitchen table peeling the skin off an applewith a pocket knife, a red apple that he has quite obviously appropriated from my fruit bowl, might I add.
~ Unknown
Its strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for whats real and whats imaginary.
~ Jason Mraz
Day was for discipline; night, chaos. Day was for white gloves and skirts below the knee, night was for goat blood on black skin. Day was for stiff lips and Bible verse; night was for an orgy of one with a green banana as her incubus.
~ Marlon James
I tan the easy way. I just wait for my liver spots to connect.
~ Martha Bolton
Sociopaths cannot love, by definition they do not have higher values, and they almost never feel comfortable in their own skins. They are loveless, amoral, and chronically bored, even the few who become rich and powerful.
~ Martha Stout
It was the logical choice, it was the obvious choice, and I would still rather peel my human skin off than do it. I was going to have to do it.
~ Martha Wells
I was lying on the procedure table, my armor gone, just wearing what was left of my suit skin, the humans gathered around. That was a bit of a nightmare image.
~ Martha Wells
know my little request, with the sweet end of time held in my mouth the heartbeat slows under the skin of the world cut and changed forever
~ Unknown