Top 211 Skins Quotes & Sayings

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

A novelist is a person who lives in other people's skins.

I have a friend who swears by food combinations - have you heard of this nonsense? She's nuts. She's like, 'You know what? You should eat food combinations, and that way you can eat whatever you want. It's just the combinations of how you put the food together.' And then her examples are like, 'You wouldn't want to eat steak and potatoes together, but you could have, like, a lemon rind and raisin skins - not the whole raisin, take the skins and steam them.

I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins.

We eat light, drink it in through our skins

It's their skins I'm peeling," she said. "The skins of the insipid scribblers, which I graft to the page, creating monsters of meaninglessness.

After 'Skins' I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.

If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and ill-programmed computers. The attunement of the heart is essential to the outflow of grace...We must aim at building the structures of God's kingdom but recognized that we will only create these through the transformation of our experience. Concentration on reformation without revival leads to skins without wine; concentration on revival without reformation soon loses the wine for want of skins.

I think the actresses who are really successful are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.

I think the actresses who are really successful are the ones who are comfortable in their own skins and still look human.

After Skins I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.

What would've happened, do you think, had the government not intervened in October 2008? The catastrophe to the economy would've been absolutely unbelievable. And yet classical economists say, "Oh, well, no, it would've adjusted perfectly happily, a few weeks of pain and then everything would've gone on as before, without a banking system left." And that's what makes it so maddening, that these bankers are back saying it was all the government's fault. The government saved their skins. It didn't want to, but it needed to save their skins in order to save the rest of us.

'Skins' has been such a great thing for our generation - I don't want it to become a parody of itself.

When someone shouts 'Skins' at you, its funny the first time. But after a hundred times, you think, 'I do have a name.'

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

I went on Skins' when I was 23, and everyone else was about 17. It was like being back at school.

Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.

consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.

I hate a man who skins the land.

The photograph is married to the eye, Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth.

We come from a very humble background. A lot of my paycheck from 'Skins' went to paying the bills and getting us a new sofa.

I was one of those kids who kept trying on different skins in high school. I was very afraid to be myself around all of these kids, to really reveal any part of myself that was true, so I would try on different skins, try on different masks, hoping I'd hit on one that was cool or quirky or interesting enough that suddenly I would be OK.

Our facial skins are thin with large pores; our back skins are thicker with small pores. One acts mainly as filter, the other mainly as barrier. And yet, it's the same skin, no parts, no assemblies. It's a system that gradually varies its functionality by varying elasticity.

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.

'Skins' was like our uni. I'm tight with everyone from 'Skins' because we had that special experience together.

Skins may differ, but affection Dwells in white and black the same.

Obedience to authority saves many skins

Magic should get under people's skins.

Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

Well, I get under people's skins. It's a gift I have, what can I say?

My wish was to finish my career at Arsenal, but there are always banana skins.

I didn't tell anyone in school that I was going to be in 'Skins.' I was terrified of them putting me down.

Skins tanned to the consistency of well-traveled alligator suitcases.

The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard

On 'Skins,' we only ever filmed for a couple of months in the summer. When I wasn't on set, I was doing my normal things.

When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.

When I hit the skins they all say, 'Damn Kane... You knock out the Bush like a presidential campaign!'

There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.

I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.

It's easy to take the shortcut and use animal skins. But I think animal skins look tired. They're not very innovative. They're old-fashioned. And great fashion should be something new.

Boys everywhere. All seven of them plus their dad, running and laughing and shoving each other around on the front lawn, engaged in what appeared to be a full-contact, tackle version of ultimate Frizbee. They were playing shirts and skins. Shirts and might-fine-lookin' skins.

I felt there needed to be a show for teenagers that didn't make them feel judged. 'Skins' never tried to preach. It allowed young people to make their own decisions about what to do and whether it was right or wrong. Young people really respond to that, and that's what sets 'Skins' apart.

Anybody who has a problem with 'Skins' obviously doesn't understand teenage life.

'Skins' was never about sending a message. It was showing you everything there was and letting you make a decision.

I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily - are a different color than white can self-govern.

'Skins' was a fun role and I enjoyed it.

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

As a designer I like to work with fabrics that don't bleed. That's why I avoid all animal skins.

What's great about 'Skins' is that the characters are exactly like people around you.

We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.

'Skins' was the university for me. It was the best years of my life, really. We were all just a bunch of friends.

I love diving into different skins, skins that make me feel deep emotions.

we shed the skins of who we used to be!

Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.

Life is full of banana skins. You slip, you carry on.

Mourinho is known for getting under players' skins, tickling and goading better performances out of them.