“My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what works. Often he used to open up his motorbike to fix things and I saw how the wheels worked. His car used to be open for dissection very regularly. All this taught me and inspired me to look beyond what I could see on the skin.” LooksRememberUsedSawsCarTaughtDadSkinsInspiredUsed To BeWheelsFactoriesEngineersAcumenDissectionMotorbike Author:Bibhu Mohapatra
“The truth of who we are has nothing to do with religion or the type of car that we drive or the color of our skin. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. And the human experience part is very temporary. So, things like the bar, love, magic, dancing, and colors are there to remind us to not take all of this stuff so seriously.” HumansSpiritualStuffMagicCarColorTypeSkinsDancingBarsWho We AreTemporaryHuman ExperienceSpiritual Beings Author:RuPaul
“If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.” IfsBigsPastCarSkinsBoxesNoiseThese DaysSensitiveTrafficBassJamTraffic Jam Author:George Harrison
“I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents. Parents earnestly try not to inflame, but their comments contain no scale and a strange focus. Discussing your private life with parents is like misguidedly looking at a zit in a car's rearview mirror and being convinced, in the absence of contrast or context, that you have developed combined heat rash and skin cancer.” TryingYearsMatterHardParentFocusCarStrangeSkinsMirrorsCancerConvincedAbsenceScalesHeatCommentContrastTwelvePrivate LifeDiscussingRearview MirrorZitsSkin Cancer Author:Douglas Coupland
“Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.” WayFeelingsAliveCarUniqueConnectionsSkins Author:John Green
“A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.” BodyDoorsCarHundredSkinsConcreteWetYardsMikeCorpsesNewtonSidewalkMidnight Sun Author:Stephenie Meyer
“In a subway car, my skin would typically fall in the middle of the color spectrum. On street corners, tourists would ask me for directions. I was, in four and a half years, never an American; I was immediately a New Yorker.” YearsFallAsksHalfFourStreetsMiddleCarColorSkinsCornersAsk MeSpectrumTouristsNew YorkersSubwayHalf A YearStreet Corners Book:The Reluctant Fundamentalist Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.” FacesBlackStepsCarBabyPureSkinsBoredomBandagesLethe Book:Ariel: The Restored Edition Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition