Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

Jack Kornfield

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

Jack Canfield

It takes risks to achieve. It's often scary. It requires something you didn't know before or a skill you didn't have before. But in the end, it's worth it.

J. J. Abrams

I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill.

Ioan Gruffudd

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills.

Ingrid Newkirk

I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made from my skin ... and an umbrella stand made from my seat.

Jack Kemp

We are going to make sure that America is open to legal immigration because that is wealth and the talent and the entrepreneurial skills for the 21st Century.

Harry Connick, Jr.

When I did the album for 'When Harry Met Sally,' I found myself out there in front of this big band, which I had no idea how to do, and they wiped the floor with me. It's a very specific skill, and I didn't know how to do it.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I don't know who decided that skinny was more appealing than not skinny. It seems arbitrary.

Gregory Bateson

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not D.N.A.

These skills can be used anywhere. Shopping, getting gas, out to dinner.

They're more developed. They're more athletic, and their skills are more refined.

The squid has the most sophisticated skin in the invertebrate world, if not the whole world.

Mitch Albom

I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

Janeane Garofalo

The term 'celebrity' makes my skin crawl.

Jane Levy

I feel like I'll always feel that I have so much to learn and I don't feel uncomfortable in my skin.

Ernest Cline

As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as well as any two people could. We’d known each other for years, in the most intimate way possible. We’d connected on a purely mental level. I understood her, trusted her, and loved her as a dear friend. None of that had changed, or could be changed by anything as inconsequential as her gender, or skin color, or sexual orientation.

Erin Morgenstern

...the thrill of being surrounded by something wondrous and fantastical, only magnified and focused directly at her. The feel of his skin against hers reverberates across her entire body, though his fingers remain entwined in hers.

Evan Williams

I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.

Milton Friedman

My major problem with the world is a problem of scarcity in the midst of plenty ... of people starving while there are unused resources ... people having skills which are not being used.

Natalia Vodianova

It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

Kathryn Schulz

doubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct

Julian Assange

I found in investigative journalism it is always best, if you have any language skills, not to admit them.

Kristen Bell

Who cares if there are lumps on my thighs? I'm guilty of having human legs made up of fat, muscle, and skin, and sometimes when you sit, they get bumpy!

Kristen Stewart

Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don't find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That's so uninteresting.

Irvine Welsh

Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.

Imogen Heap

The gloves are like a second skin. They are part of me. An extension of me. I become hyperreal.

Ina May Gaskin

Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?

Idina Menzel

As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.

Gregory Maguire

She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.

Gloria Vanderbilt

When I was being photographed, I always felt very much in my own skin. That's probably one of the reasons why I enjoy being photographed.

J. Maarten Troost

Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.

J. Paul Getty

Getting results through people is a skill that cannot be learned in the classroom.