Skin Quotes

In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that wonderful biological attribute - a white skin.

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?

The color of somebody's skin or the way he wears his hair or clothes has nothing to do with anything.

When you are skinning your customers, you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin.

I've got thick skin.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home.

I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

Like most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and what suits me better now than I did when I was much younger and feel more comfortable in my own skin.

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.

I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.

Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

I wouldn't mind spending a little more time and effort and money on good skin care. And I'm sure they'll come out with, as they are doing, with more and more treatments that are noninvasive and healthy ways to keep your face looking as good as it can.

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

I feel sexy when I get out of the tub - your skin is fresh and you've put up your hair without looking.

Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.

I'm a good skin, natural makeup kind of gal.

My act is sort of improvisational. I have a skeleton in my head, but no fat or skin on it.