It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them.
~By Tiberius ~
I do not believe that the colour of one's skin determines whether you are disadvantaged.
~By Pauline Hanson ~
I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
~By Frank McCourt ~
Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.
~By Steve Guttenberg ~
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 ~
You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.
~By Nikki Cox ~
But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.
~By Estelle Parsons ~
Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
~By Sitting Bull ~
People get caught up in asking whether Americans should be going here or there. What it boils down to is the call of the Lord. If the Lord has called you to a specific area, that's where you are going to see the fruit.
~By Michael Scott ~
I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.
~By Lindsay Lohan ~
At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.
~By Chris Van Allsburg ~
People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.
~By Carrie Fisher ~
I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
~By Kate Winslet ~
He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different.
~By Don Shula ~
Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn't a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should.
~By Timothy Hutton ~
Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to forego all economic gain in order to increase the purchasing power of all the wealth accumulated in past years.
~By Charles E. Wilson ~
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 was looking for someone to formulate a skin care line I could use.
~By Connie Sellecca ~
Here we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking me if there are pictures of me in my drawers.
~By Anthony Weiner ~
A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.
~By Dennis Rodman ~
Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.
~By Ron White ~
And then it was working with Bob Hoskins, who I had never worked with before - except radio. It was like being given a wonderful meal - full of the things you love most.
~By Judi Dench ~
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 ~
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
Well, I don't know. It's long, it's longer than both of the other books put together, so it's more ambitious. I think I get under the skin of the people a lot more than in the other books.
~By Cory Doctorow ~
I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?
~By Michael Jackson ~
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 ~
Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers.
~By Robert Half ~
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 ~
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 ~
A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.
~By Mary Daly ~
Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.
~By John McGraw ~
I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
~By Manfred von Richthofen ~
So, not only am I panicking over the weekend if I need to know my lines, but also if can I get the kids to the zoo. Can I even go to church? I was asking for certain things that would allow me to plan my life a little better.
~By Hunter Tylo ~
We put together a one-sentence petition asking Congress to censure President Clinton and move on to other pressing issues. We sent it to under 100 friends and family, and within a week we had 100,000 people sign the petition.
~By Joan Blades ~
I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.
~By Teri Garr ~
The film was made in 1973. It was a golden time for people to experiment without risking, for example, AIDS. Today one has to be so much more careful and I don't think a character like that could exist now.
~By Sylvia Kristel ~
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 ~
But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.
~By Paul Farmer ~
In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
~By Ziyi Zhang ~
I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'
~By Howard Hodgkin ~
I love being someone I'm not for a period of time. I love every minute of being in someone else's skin.
~By Jessica Biel ~
And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.
~By Enrique Iglesias ~
If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'
~By John Cleese ~
I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.
~By Roger Moore ~
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.
~By Pam Grier ~
May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
Having this interest here in the Redskins is the chief hobby of my life.
~By Jack K. Cooke ~
You walk off the plane in Rio, and your blood temperature goes up. The feel of the wind on your face, the water on your skin, the taste of the food, the music, the sexuality; Brazilians are very comfortable in their sexuality.
~By Amy Irving ~
After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
~By Barbara Steele ~
Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.
~By Philippe Halsman ~
You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.
~By Dave Eggers ~
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 ~
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
~By Jorge Luis Borges ~
Just tasking a team to be creative won't get you to be innovative. It's having a corporate climate that gives people the space to experiment and take risks. Only then can you truly sustain it.
~By Steve Brown ~
Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.
~By James Caan ~
In my early professionals years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
~By Carl Rogers ~
The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
~By Lance Henriksen ~
Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.
~By Annie Lennox ~
Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.
~By Mary Astor ~
Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.
~By Rita Dove ~
Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?
~By Morgan Freeman ~
Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
~By Mason Cooley ~
We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on.
~By Glenn Danzig ~
In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point.
~By John Sexton ~
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.
~By Janis Ian ~
I made a lot of friends over the years and I would always look at what they were eating. All of them were skinny. I would think that I would like to eat like that.
~By Suzanne Somers ~
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 ~
Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.
~By J. Carter Brown ~
I have this very strange sensitive skin. If I put anything on it but this one product, it erupts into a rash.
~By Rebecca De Mornay ~
I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
~By Henry George ~
Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.
~By Courteney Cox ~
I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time.
~By Peter Mayhew ~
I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
~By Anne Rice ~
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
~By Thomas Berger ~
Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
~By Natalie Imbruglia ~
The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.
~By Angela Merkel ~
Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.
~By Lucian Freud ~
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
~By Austin O'Malley ~
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.
~By Hans Kung ~
It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.
~By Kirstie Alley ~
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
~By Michelangelo ~
In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.
~By Robert Herrick ~
I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
~By Madeleine Peyroux ~
The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions.
~By Terry Gross ~
I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.
~By Mary Daly ~
We've been swimming at nude beaches and I love to go skinny dipping, but I'm sorry, sitting on top of a mountain, that's just, you're trying to show off or something. That's ridiculous.
~By Andy Richter ~
Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
~By Frank Moore Colby ~
Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in gay, fine colours, that are but skin-deep.
~By Matthew Henry ~
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
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