Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
~By A. E. Housman ~
To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film.
~By Edward Zwick ~
The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
~By Kin Hubbard ~
To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
~By Vincent D'Onofrio ~
I remember Mick Jagger asking me 'hey, how do you guys feel about us coming over here and taking all the play from you guys?' I said 'Well, in a way, you have eliminated all my competition.
~By Bobby Vinton ~
Asking the government to help you for short periods of time is different than asking the government to take care of you for the rest of your life.
~By Donna Shalala ~
Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig.
~By John McCarthy ~
Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation.
~By Joe Krauss ~
There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.
~By Audre Lorde ~
Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.
~By Glenn Beck ~
The reason given by the President in asking Congress to declare war against Germany is that the German government has declared certain war zones, within which, by the use of submarines, she sinks, without notice, American ships and destroys American lives.
~By George William Norris ~
I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.
~By Angelina Jolie ~
It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.
~By Gertrude Jekyll ~
Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.
~By Annie Leibovitz ~
I feel like I want to crawl out of my skin, especially when people start questioning me.
~By Skeet Ulrich ~
It's about putting the pedal to the metal and not asking any questions at all and just going for it.
~By Brandon Thomas ~
My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.
~By Casey Affleck ~
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
~By Robert Smithson ~
The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.
~By Martin Bashir ~
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
~By Mel Brooks ~
When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.
~By Jacques Chirac ~
I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
~By Kate Winslet ~
I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
Writers are frequently asked why they wrote their first book. A more interesting answer might come from asking them why they wrote their second one.
~By Len Deighton ~
I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.
~By Angelina Jolie ~
Risk means everything from being honest about your faith, to moving, to quitting a job that's paying you a fortune but it's not what's in your heart. Risking things is one of the biggest fears we have.
~By John Tesh ~
I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.
~By Tim Robbins ~
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old.
~By Sofia Vergara ~
Sixty-four thousand dollars for a question, I hope they are asking you the meaning of life.
~By Paul Scofield ~
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
~By Pierre Teilhard de Chardin ~
By the time the people asking the questions are ready for the answers, the people doing the work have lost track of the questions.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.
~By Jack K. Cooke ~
The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
~By Robert M. Hutchins ~
I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
~By Pete Seeger ~
When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do.
~By Joel Coen ~
I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.
~By Emma Thompson ~
I'm not the classic type - fair skin, very beautiful women of a classic type, I'm talking about now.
~By Debra Wilson ~
I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me.
~By Cheryl Lynn ~
This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions.
~By Otto Schily ~
I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask.
~By Peter Malkin ~
Asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary sense a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment.
~By Anthony Kennedy ~
Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.
~By Jhonen Vasquez ~
I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.
~By Gisele Bundchen ~
Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.
~By Bennie Thompson ~
What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself, in the face of difficulties.
~By Katherine Mansfield ~
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
~By Che Guevara ~
I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many and also I was kind of perplexed by the idea of how I was going to sing and play... because at that time, we hadn't really thought about asking someone else.
~By Kim Gordon ~
Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
~By Mahalia Jackson ~
I'm Jim Phillips, I have multiple personalities. I'm also a skindiver, a puppeteer, and I was the tenth president of the United States.
~By Ryan Stiles ~
It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a man.
~By John Lennon ~
Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
~By Cameron Diaz ~
A rock'n'roll band needs to be able to get under people's skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.
~By Paul Westerberg ~
Survival is a privilege which entails obligations. I am forever asking myself what I can do for those who have not survived.
~By Simon Wiesenthal ~
I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.
~By Joe DiMaggio ~
The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
Skinheads are becoming part of our overall movement.
~By Tom Metzger ~
Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn't have religion.
~By Bernice Johnson Reagon ~
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
~By Christopher Hampton ~
There's a way in which you can look at clothing as your outer skin. And because you were discriminated against because of your complexion, the way in which you could overcome that was through the way in which you presented yourself with your clothing.
~By Ed Smith ~
To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of.
~By Ronald Fisher ~
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
~By Michelangelo ~
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No."
~By Aaron Copland ~
I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.
~By Richard Gere ~
Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?
~By Candace Cameron ~
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.
~By Bryan Robson ~
If one takes pride in one's craft, you won't let a good thing die. Risking it through not pushing hard enough is not a humility.
~By Paul Keating ~
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.
~By Macy Gray ~
I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun.
~By Corbin Bleu ~
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
~By Thomas Pynchon ~
Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
You know what, we're very skinny in our family.
~By Ashley Scott ~
On TV people look at your hair and then they look at your skin, and then they look at your clothes, and by the time they're listening to what you're saying, you're off the screen.
~By Doug Coupland ~
I have olive skin, so if I get pale, I look green. I have to tan.
~By Nicole Richie ~
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.
~By Mark Goddard ~
Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ever so casually by asking 'Now how much of nudity are we going to see in this one?'
~By Natasha Henstridge ~
If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.
~By John Gould ~
A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.
~By Dennis Rodman ~
I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
~By Anne Rice ~
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
~By Robert Kennedy ~
There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.
~By Nick Lampson ~
It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize plant to solve specific problems and then watching its responses.
~By Barbara McClintock ~
My skin is more beautiful than yours. I would be quite more popular in jail if I so chose.
~By Gene Simmons ~
There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.
~By Stephen Carter ~
The first role I ever did... I played a Nazi skinhead.
~By Tim Roth ~
I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.
~By Haley Barbour ~
A thick skin is a gift from God.
~By Konrad Adenauer ~
Me being a skinny guy, I could crawl into the steel pit.
~By Luther Allison ~
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.
~By Gene Robinson ~
Men should be judged not by their tint of skin, the gods they serve, the vintage they drink, nor by the way they fight, or love, or sin, but by the quality of the thought they think.
~By Adela Florence Nicolson ~
We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.
~By Joe Chung ~
Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.
~By Karl Lagerfeld ~
There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
~By Daniel Ellsberg ~
Production was what I always wanted to do, even when I was skating. I'm a bit of a sponge. When I was going around competing I was always asking, 'What does that light do?' If you want to be successful, you have to understand what people are doing around you.
~By Robin Cousins ~
The reason I do workshops is so I can learn, and I am fortunate that I've probably gained more from the whole experience of teaching than any one participant has. It is all about asking.
~By John Sexton ~
I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.
~By Billy Joel ~
I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience.
~By Lorraine Bracco ~
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.
~By Gerald Vann ~
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