“You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around.” WayFeelsBodyCertainHouseEnergyEffectsBuildingColdSkinsHotGlassesWoodsYour BodyStealingHeatConcreteTimberVeneerLimestone Author:Peter Zumthor
“When I was nine, I was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat and was prescribed beta blockers, which had the side effect of turning my skin green. Looking like Shrek's little sister at school wasn't the easiest thing.” LittlesSchoolSidesEffectsSkinsGreenNineHeartbeatSide EffectsLittle SisterBeta Author:Jessie J
“Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeous imagery of things that have never been and never will be? The most special effect in movies is always the human face when its mind is being changed.” MindHumansRealLightFilmFacesNaturalLossCommonSpecialEffectsChangedHollywoodSkinsDenyToneReplacedGorgeousImagerySpecial EffectsPrecious ThingsHuman FacesNatural LightSkin Tone Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“And here I'm struck by an epiphany so monstrous in its scale, so blinding in its effect that I feel my skin has turned inside out under the sun, that my innards possess magnetic qualities able to call vast fortunes together. And it's this: anything can happen if I want it to.” IfsWantFeelsHappensAbleTogetherQualitySunEffectsSkinsFortuneScalesMonstrousEpiphanyMagneticAnything Can Happen Author:D.B.C. Pierre
“Although I have never been 100 lbs overweight, I know the effects of not feeling comfortable in my own skin.” KnowsFeelingsMy OwnEffectsComfortableSkinsOverweight Author:Kim Lyons
“With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.” Has BeensCountryMightAmericaPovertyEffectsParticularColorSkinsSpreadIsolationConcentrationBiasSegregationInjuredDisadvantagesSkin ColorMelanin Book:We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy Source: We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
“If you say, "I'm bursting with joy," a scientist could analyze your skin and find it loaded with neuropeptides that may have antidepressant effects and that may modulate the immune system. If you say, "I feel exhilarated, unbounded, and joyful," and I were to examine your blood, I would find high levels of interleukin and interferon, which are powerful anticancer drugs.” IfsFeelsMayJoyLevelsPowerfulBloodEffectsDrugSkinsScientistJoyfulImmuneLoadedHigh LevelBurstingImmune SystemAntidepressants Author:Deepak Chopra
“When I was in the second grade, one of my teachers said, "Where are you going to find a husband? How are you going to find someone darker than you?" I was mortified. I remember seeing a commercial where a woman goes for an interview and doesn't get the job. Then she puts a cream on her face to lighten her skin, and she gets the job! This is the message: that dark skin is unacceptable. I definitely wasn't hearing this from my immediate family - my mother never said anything to that effect - but the voices from the television are usually much louder than the voices of your parents.” SaidJobsRememberFacesMotherParentVoiceDarkTeacherSeeingEffectsTelevisionHusbandMessagesSkinsHearingInterviewsGradesCreamImmediate FamilyDark Skin Author:Lupita Nyong'o
“I'm not a dermatologist, but I had someone explain it to me, and I've seen the effect on my own skin over the years. So I feel like we need to protect our faces, especially those of us who live in Southern California, from this goddamn sun that's on us all day.” NeedsFeelsYearsFacesMy OwnSunEffectsProtectSkinsCaliforniaSouthernSouthern California Author:June Diane Raphael
“All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.” NeedsWritingWalksComedyEffectsSkinsIllWeatherWetBentMeteorologists Book:Writings from The New Yorker 1925-1976 Source: Writings from The New Yorker 1925-1976