“[2010] was a rough year. Between my divorce and the other things I went through, a lot happened. It's hard for anyone to go through that in public. But when you're a celebrity and under a microscope, it's 58 million times harder. I grew an even thicker skin after that hard year.” YearsHardMillionsHappenedGrewSkinsHarderDivorceRoughMicroscopes Author:Christina Aguilera
“Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.” MillionsTenHollywoodSkinsDollarsMachineryMillion DollarsIntricateIngeniousBaloney Author:George Jean Nathan
“Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either.” PeopleHurtMillionsCostDecidedSkinsHappySensitiveOpennessThickBeing HappyBeing HurtThick Skin Author:Rajneesh
“When the facts of history are written Haile Selassie of Abyssinia will go down as a great coward who ran away from his country to save his skin and left the millions of his countrymen to struggle through a terrible war that he brought upon them because of his political ignorance and his racial disloyalty.” WarCountryFactsPoliticalLeftMillionsStruggleWrittenIgnoranceTerribleSkinsRanCowardCountrymenDisloyalty Book:The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers
“You can always tell when an actor has grown a 'rhino skin' to protect themselves. It comes across on screen, and they aren't believable. They're dead in the eyes because they've been told a million times that they're the greatest actor that ever lived. If you don't realise what's happening, and get your feet back on the ground, it can be the worst thing that ever happens to you.” IfsHappensEyeActorsMillionsFeetWorstProtectHappeningsSkinsScreensRealisingWorst ThingsBelievableRhinos Author:Emma Stone
“Not only was Cain called upon to suffer, but because of his wickedness, he became the father of an inferior race. A curse was placed upon him and that curse has been continued through his lineage and must do so while time endures...” WorldFeelsHas BeensMadeSoulSufferingFatherBlackRaceMillionsMankindThis WorldBlessingSkinsEndurePrivilegeCurseDeniedInferiorsWickednessCursedInferiorityDescendantsPriesthoodCainLineageBlack Skin Author:Joseph Fielding Smith
“There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.” WayYearsKindAnimalMillionsShareSkinsBlameTortureRipFur Author:Natalie Imbruglia
“I have the thickest skin of anyone you'll ever meet. No one can say anything about me I haven't heard a million times before.” MillionsHeardHavensSkinsSay Anything Author:Kelly Brook
“The weather turned. Her skin seemed to grow a million extra pores, and all of them opened to take in the warmth and tenderness of the air. The sun on her face made her want to cry. Into all those millions of open pores came the sunshine, and other feelings as well. In and out. She was porous.” WantWellsMadeFeelingsFacesGrowsMillionsSunAirCrySkinsWeatherExtrasSunshineWarmthTenderness Author:Ann Brashares
“Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a clean pillow-case will make a difference... Indeed, if your pillow is six years old--which is apparently about the average age for a pillow--it has been estimated that one-tenth of its weight will be made up of sloughed skin, living mites, dead mites and mite dung.” IfsThinkingYearsMayHas BeensMadeHomeAgeDifferencesMillionsCasesBedSixSkinsWeightCleanAverageJust OneMaking A DifferencePillowSix Year Olds Author:Bill Bryson
“Skin, bones, blood and organs transplant from person to person. Even what’s inside you already, the colonies of microbes and bugs that eat your food for you, without them you’d die. Nothing of you is all-the-way yours. All of you is inherited. Whatever you’re thinking, a million other folks are thinking. Whatever you do, they’re doing, and none of you is responsible. All of you is a cooperative effort.” ThinkingWayPersonsDiesEffortMillionsBloodSkinsResponsibleFolksBonesOrgansBugsColonyCooperativesMicrobesTransplantsOrgan Transplant Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.” IfsMenWorldYearsHas BeensDoneAgeScienceUniverseMillionsShareEvolutionHundredBuiltSkinsPaintProofPerceiveTowersSummitPinnacleEiffel TowerKnobsEiffel Book:Mark Twain’s Book of Animals Source: Mark Twain’s Book of Animals