“Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.” StillsFeelingsDesireFeltNaturalStrangeComfortableNewsUnderstoodSkinsEnvySensesVanityEnjoyedScarDirtIntriguingStill In LoveNew Feelings Author:Jim Morrison
“The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin - this is bone - all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality.” FeelingsRealityExistenceVisionStrangeSweetIllusionSkinsBonesSubstanceMetaphysics Book:Max Beckmann Source: Max Beckmann
“One could dismiss the zombie trend as merely feeding a mass public that craves the strange and bizarre. Such an explanation would be only skin-deep. Popular culture often provides a window into the subliminal or unstated fears of citizens, and zombies are no exception. Some cultural commentators argue that the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks are a primary cause for renewed interest in the living dead, and the numbers appear to back up this assertion.” Would BeCultureCausesInterestNumbersStrangeCitizensMassWindowSkinsArguingTerroristPrimariesExplanationExceptionTrendsSeptemberFeedingBizarreZombieCraveAssertionSeptember 11CommentatorsPopular CultureTerrorist AttacksSubliminalSeptember 11 2001Skin Deep Author:Daniel Drezner
“I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead.” FeelsYoungSunTreeStrangeRootsSkinsAncientForestsGiantsBranchesRoughSmoothUnseenIntuitiveBarkSapOverheadSaplingsSmooth Skin Author:Jane Goodall
“I was asked by an NPR reporter once, why don't I talk about race that often. I said it's because I'm a neurosurgeon. And she thought that was a strange response. And you say - I said, you see, when I take someone to the operating room, I'm actually operating on the thing that makes them who they are. The skin doesn't make them who they are.” SaidRoomsRaceStrangeSkinsResponseReportersNprNeurosurgeonsOperating Room Author:Benjamin Carson
“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
“Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.” WorldFeelsFeelingsChildhoodYouthStrangeSkinsConnectedSelfishnessUncomfortableNarcissismReally True Author:Jason Reitman
“I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater traveled over my skin. I did not like to be touched, but it was a strange dislike. I did not like to be touched because I craved it too much. I wanted to be held very tight so I would not break. Even now, when people lean down to touch me, or hug me, or put a hand on my shoulder, I hold my breath. I turn my face. I want to cry.” PeopleWantHandsWantedRememberFacesTurnsFeltBreakToo MuchCryStrangeSkinsBreathsShouldersTouchedDislikeHugTraveledTouch MeHug MeBreak Even Book:Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“It’s strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what’s real and what’s imaginary.” GivingHeartRealDreamStrangeTestsSkinsImaginary Author:Jason Mraz
“I remember that feeling of skin. It's strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers still tingle with it.” StillsFeelingsRememberStrangeSkinsFingers Book:Stolen Source: Stolen
“My skin burns where it meets his. It feels better than good, but it sets off a strange aching in my chest.” FeelsStrangeSkinsChestsFeel Better Book:The Host Source: The Host
“A single raised eyebrow. "You've defected, sweetheart. No use worrying about the big, bad wolf now." She was aware of Judd speaking, but her attention never shifted off the man who was a predator, for all that he wore human skin. When he peeled open and held out a bar of some kind, she took it, aware low energy levels could be dangerous when it came to her ability to keep a handle on the cold fire. "Thank you." A faint smile, a strange amusement in those icy eyes. "You're welcome." It was the most polite interaction they'd ever had.” MenHumansKindUseBigsEyeEnergyAbilityLevelsAttentionWorryFireDangerousStrangeColdLowsSkinsRaisedBarsHandleWelcomeInteractionPoliteAmusementEyebrowsPredatorSweetheartIcyEnergy LevelsYou Re WelcomeRaised Eyebrows Author:Nalini Singh
“It sounds strange, somewhat on the line between irony and absurdity, to think that people would rather label and judge something as significant as each other but completely bypass a peanut. ... World peace is only a dream because people won't allow themselves and others around them to simply be peanuts. We won't allow the color of a man's heart to be the color of his skin, the premise of his beliefs, and his self-worth. We won't allow him to be a peanut, therefore we won't allow ourselves to come to live in harmony. (Diary 18)” PeopleThinkingMenWorldHeartSelfDreamBeliefSoundLinesStrangeColorJudgingSkinsHarmonySignificantSelf WorthLabelsIronyAbsurdityDiariesPremisesPeanutsBypass Author:Erin Gruwell