(559 quotes found)
“A thick skin is a gift from God”
Konrad Adenauer
“. . . these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.”
Herman Melville
“Around your skin, I tie and untie mine.”
Miguel Hernández
“I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.”
Primo Levi
“When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever changed.”
Roy Rogers
“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
Jean Kerr
“Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin.”
Benjamin Franklin
“On a sofa upholstered in panther skinMona did researches in original sin.”
William Plomer
“Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.”
Samuel Ullman
“Being someone I'm not for a period of time and loving every minute of being in someone else's skin.”
Jessica Biel
