Quotes about Skinned

Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. Votes: 2

Man is the only animal that can be skinned more than once. Votes: 2

Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge. Votes: 2

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people. Votes: 2

Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face. Votes: 2

There are so many misconceptions about me, and it gets frustrating no matter how thick skinned. Votes: 2

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal. Votes: 2

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it. Votes: 2

Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically. Votes: 2

I'm light skinned, and I used to lean on that because that's something a lot of black people pride themselves on, and it's weird. Votes: 2

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA. Votes: 2

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired. Votes: 2

During National Playground Safety Week, I'll celebrate common-sense safety. I'll also celebrate skinned knees and bruised elbows. I'll celebrate so-called 'dangerous' playgrounds - playgrounds with see-saws, zip lines and towering slides. Votes: 2

But for real, for me, I feel like with the red lipstick thing it all depends on the pair of complexion. I'm just being for real. You have to be fair skinned to get away with that. Votes: 2

So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each of these societies the people at the bottom are the darkest skinned with the most African features. Votes: 2

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then. Votes: 2

As a fair skinned blonde, I disappeared into the background. I've always been a loner, so I suppose dyeing my hair red was a way to say, 'I'm here, I exist, I'm a human being and you can't just push me aside.' Votes: 2

If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible. Votes: 2

There is this really old school stereotypical notion in Australia that to be Aboriginal you have to be black: anything but white or pale skinned. What 'The Sapphires' does is open up the conversation that I've been having my whole life, the fact that being indigenous isn't about the color of your skin; it's about your connection to your culture. Votes: 2

Thou weedy elf-skinned canker-blossom! Votes: 0

"...light-skinned," and with "no negro dialect." Votes: 0

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person. Votes: 0

His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man. Votes: 0

I was fair-skinned in a country that's about the outdoors. Votes: 0

I'm pale-skinned so I don't feel at my best on a beach. Votes: 0

Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned. Votes: 0

Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin. Votes: 0

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor. Votes: 0

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German. Votes: 0

Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours. Votes: 0

They travel best in gangs, hanging around like clumps of bananas, thick skinned and yellow. Votes: 0

Im pretty fair-skinned, so I need to get in the sun for a little while. Votes: 0

I'm pretty fair-skinned, so I need to get in the sun for a little while. Votes: 0

As for them pretty light-skinned models standin in the cold, ah yeah they with us. Votes: 0

Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free healthcare. You're thinking of Jesus. Votes: 0

Over the years, I've gotten a little bit thick-skinned when it comes to the acting thing. Votes: 0

Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, ossified, three-karat Christianity. Votes: 0

I'm the light skinned version of Mandingo, I've seen more Beatles and Jagged Edges than Ringo. Votes: 0

Troubles cured you salty as a country ham, smoky to the taste, thick-skinned and tender inside. Votes: 0

Donald Trump is misogynist and a racist; he is thin-skinned and beyond unqualified to be president. Votes: 0

And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned, Votes: 0

I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person. Votes: 0

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned? Votes: 0

Girls of all kinds can be beautiful; from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned Votes: 0

Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost. Votes: 0

Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson, Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson. Votes: 0

I wish i were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken heart. Votes: 0

Everything affects my poetry, every day something happens that changes me forever. I'm susceptible and plastic, thin-skinned and moody. Votes: 0

The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary--how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive? Votes: 0

When I was young, I went to a church where the lighter-skinned you were, the closer you sat to the altar. Votes: 0

I am a thinned-skinned type. I am very sensitive, very emotional. Vulnerability is kind of always a part of my day. Votes: 0

Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy. Votes: 0

After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity. Votes: 0

If it was so honorable and glorious to be black, why was it the yellow-skinned people among us had so much prestige? Votes: 0

In black America there's such a thing as passing, the black people who are light skinned and they will pass for white. Votes: 0

The easy path of aging is to become a thick-skinned, unbudging curmudgeon, a battle-ax. To grow soft and sweet is the harder way. Votes: 0

She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence. Votes: 0

I know you're supposed to be thick-skinned in this business, but I'm not. I kind of like to hang on to being vulnerable. Votes: 0

Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees. Votes: 0

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up. Votes: 0

A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls. Votes: 0

Don't let the bad shots get to you. Don't let yourself become angry. The true scramblers are thick-skinned. And they always beat the whiners. Votes: 0

It's really maddening out there for dark-skinned actresses in terms of the opportunities we get. There's just so much talent that is being overlooked. Votes: 0

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA." Votes: 0

It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance. Votes: 0

I am a dark-skinned, nappy-headed, scar-faced dude from the streets of Brooklyn. I can't hide from being who I am. It's all over my face. Votes: 0

Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured Votes: 0

If you ever want to see heaven, watch a bunch of young girls play. They are all sweat and skinned knees. Energy and open faces. Votes: 0

There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.' Votes: 0

I knew when I wrote the line "light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson" [from the song "Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star. Votes: 0

The Mormon mission to Africa, as to other dark-skinned parts of the world, was for a long time hobbled by the racism of the movement's scripture. Votes: 0

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thick-skinned, to learn that not every project will survive. Votes: 0

I was the darkest skinned person in my family. I remember how I used to feel - like I wasn't pretty enough, or I wasn't good enough. Votes: 0

If you're going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It's something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory. Votes: 0

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art. Votes: 0

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven't fit in every place, and so I'm kind of used to resistance. Votes: 0

Look well on this, my son," said the green-skinned man, "for one day I shall rule a clockwork kingdom of such beings, and you shall be its prince. Votes: 0

As soon as the seal was clear of the water, it reared up and its skin slipped down to the sand. What had been a seal was a white-skinned boy Votes: 0

I'm fair-skinned, so beaches are a bit boring for me. I'm either smeared in lotion or under a shade. However, I do love the sea - diving, swimming and snorkelling. Votes: 0

I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him, and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, "I helped skin Bob." Votes: 0

Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as a healthy counterpoise to unintelligent praise. Votes: 0

A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately. Votes: 0

I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous. Votes: 0

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid marveled at the electability of Barack Obama because, unlike previous black candidates, Mr. Obama was 'light-skinned' and lacked a 'Negro dialect.' Votes: 0

I'm originally from Tampa and grew up on beach. I'm also naturally fair-skinned. The funny thing is, my parents are both pretty tan, but for some reason I didn't get those genes. Votes: 0

It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal. Votes: 0

We are a thick skinned people with emtpy souls. We spend our days playing dice, chess, or sleeping - and we say we are the best people that ever came to mankind? Votes: 0

They all looked like a shampoo commercial, healthy and clear-skinned, perfectly proportioned, a group of handsome young men. Their clothes hung on them like they were glad to be gracing such supermodels. Votes: 0

In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops on so you can see their ribs. Votes: 0

I live my life pretty emotionally, for better and for worse. I'm pretty thin-skinned and transparent. I lead with my heart, and I wanted to make a movie that did the same. Votes: 0

...the future of the world lies with the yellow man and the brown man now that our erstwhile master, the white-skinned man, has wasted himself through buggery, cell phone usage, and drug abuse Votes: 0

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter. Votes: 0

Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U. Votes: 0

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse? Votes: 0

Whether chocolate or vanilla, or you're somewhere in between, A cappuccino mocha or a caramel queen, Rejected by the black, not accepted by the white world, And this is dedicated to them dark-skinned white girls. Votes: 0

The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I try not to read too many reviews when a book first comes out. Votes: 0