“But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote a year ago, I think we might put down all their results, add them together, and then divide by the number of mathematicians, and thus find the average coefficient of error. (1908)” ThinkingYearsTwoMightTodayTogetherScienceResultsNumbersSubjectsYears AgoSkinsAgreeAddErrorsAverageDividesMathematicianFriction Author:Hiram Maxim
“Here today we huddle tight As the darkest heathens might The snow falls chilly on our skin The snow is forcing its way in. Hush, snow, come in with us to dwell: We were thrown out by Heaven as well.” WayWellsMightTodayFallHeavenSkinsSnowThrownHushHeathenChillySnow Falling Book:Poems, 1913-1956 Source: Poems, 1913-1956
“I would not be standing here today if my skin were white or my religion were Presbyterian. I am here today only because my skin is yellow and my religion is Unification Church. The ugliest things in this beautiful country of America are religious bigotry and racism.” IfsCountryTodayAmericaBeautifulChurchReligiousWhiteRacismStandingSkinsBigotryYellowPresbyteriansUnificationBeautiful CountryReligious BigotryUnification Church Author:Sun Myung Moon
“The Berbers, among whom even today one finds light skins and blue eyes, do not go back to the Vandal invasions of the fifth century A.D., but to the prehistoric Atlantic Nordic human wave. The Kabyle huntsmen, for example, are to no small degree still wholly Nordic (thus the blond Berbers in the region of Constantine form 10 % of the population; at Djebel Sheshor they are even more numerous).” HumansStillsLightEyeTodayFormCenturyExampleDegreesSkinsBlueWavePopulationRegionsFifthInvasionBlue EyesPrehistoricConstantineNordicVandals Author:Alfred Rosenberg
“I wanted to touch on how we look on each other. Good hair, light skin, you must be smart; if you're black, you're dark-skinned, you're ugly. That really happens. This is something that started with slavery, when they divided the house, and it's still a part of today's society and things that we battle with.” IfsLooksStillsLightHappensTodayWantedHouseBlackDarkHairBattleSmartSkinsSlaveryUglyDividedBeing SmartDark SkinnedGood HairToday's Society Author:Rapsody
“Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.” TodayGivenRightsStudentsColorSkinsDeniedHarvardFashionable Author:Al Capp
“If you're born in America with a black skin, you're born in prison, and the masses of black people in America today are beginning to regard our plight or predicament in this society as one of a prison inmate.” PeopleIfsTodayAmericaBlackBornMassSkinsRegardPrisonBlack PeopleThis SocietyPredicamentsPlightAmerica TodayInmatesBlack Skin Author:Malcolm X
“...stand with me today and pledge to work for an America that doesn't ignore those in need and lifts up those who wish to succeed. Pledge to hold your government accountable for ignoring the suffering of so many for far too long. And pledge to do your part to build the America that we have dreamed of - where the bright light of opportunity shines on every person - an America where the family you are born into, or the color of your skin, will never control your destiny.” NeedsPersonsLongLightGovernmentTodayAmericaSufferingOpportunityWishBornPovertyDestinyColorSucceedSkinsShiningLiftsOur DestinyYour DestinyPledgeBright LightsShine OnThose In NeedControl Your Destiny Author:John Edward
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into a oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by content of their character. I have a dream today!” ChildrenLittlesStatesCharacterDreamTodayAbleTogetherNationsJusticeFourColorSonOne DayRedSkinsTablesSlaveInjusticeOppressionFormerHillsHeatOwnersBrotherhoodJudgedTransformedGeorgiaMississippiOasisSlave OwnersInjustice And Oppression Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.” PlayTodayLevelsTechnologyColorConversationSkinsOvercomingUniversityUniformsVersusGeorgiaSkin ColorGeorgia Tech Author:Jesse Jackson
“Photography's a case of keeping all the pores of the skin open, as well as the eyes. A lot of photographers today think that by putting on the uniform, the fishing vest, and all the Nikons, that that makes them a photographer. But it doesn't. It's not just seeing. It's feeling.” ThinkingWellsFeelingsEyeTodayCasesSeeingPhotographySkinsPhotographerFishingUniformsVestsNikon Author:Don McCullin
“Many of the medicines we use today, to fight everything from AIDS to cancer, originate as a toxin in an amphibian skin. When we lose these animals, we lose resources. We lose keystone species in the environments where they live.” UseTodayFightingLosesAnimalEnvironmentResourcesSkinsMedicineSpeciesCancerAidsKeystonesToxinsAmphibians Author:Jeff Corwin
“[Donald Trump] does have a thick skin, frankly, as someone who works very closely within, that was in that room today, directly beside him. I will say this though. That's not what the meeting was about.” DoeTodayRoomsTrumpSkinsMeetingsThickThick Skin Author:Kellyanne Conway
“Anybody who's a mythology ... there's always a fear. That's why we don't like people whose skin color is different, whose eye slant is different, or whose worship is different. It makes them feel insecure. So we strike out. The thing that bothers me most about the Christian church today is that we spend our time confirming people in their own sense of wretchedness.” PeopleFeelsDifferentEyeTodayChristianChurchColorWorshipSkinsStrikesMythologyBotherOur TimeInsecureChristian ChurchWretchednessSkin ColorChurch Today Author:John Shelby Spong
“We have to stop seeing the skin color. I believe that's the most powerful way to change mentalities and behavior. I had to stop seeing myself in such a limited way. I started doing that as a teenager, and here I am today, because of that. I believe that's the best way to change things for Black people.” PeopleBelieveTodayI BelieveBlackPowerfulBehaviorSkinsTeenagerMost PowerfulBlack PeopleMentality Author:Omar Sy
“I tell young actresses today who are looking to get into films, "First of all, you are marginalized by the color of your skin." I tell actresses, "If you're too tall, if you're too fat, you're not going to work. I don't care how talented you are." It's a business, and sex sells. Sex, action, special effects, and violence sell. Yes, you can have art films about the triumph of the human spirit and all of that, but you'll have it done with a big-budget icon with a $20 million salary.” ArtDoneCareTodayActionFilmSpiritViolenceSpecialSkinsHuman SpiritGoing To Work Author:Pam Grier
“Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.” WayHomeBigsTodayFallAirColdSkinsSnowFeathersMothsWay HomeFlakes Book:Cat's Eye Source: Cat's Eye
“Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation.” KnowsWayGivingFeelsLongI CanEnoughWholeTodayLastsNightDiesKnow HowConversationKissingSkinsLet MeGive MeDiedInstrumentsWineConstantBonesLimbsLeaving MeLast NightWithout YouMe AloneLeave Me AloneBeside You Author:Rumi
“But even as she told herself that, she remembered the way Cal had looked today with his shirt off while he’d stood on the ladder and scraped the side of Annie’s house. Watching those muscles bunch and flex every time he moved had made her crazy and she’d finally grabbed his shirt, thrown it at him, and delivered a stern lecture on the depletion of the ozone layer and skin cancer.” WayMadeTodayHouseSidesCrazySkinsMovedCancerBunchRememberedShirtsMusclesThrownLayersLaddersLecturesAnnieOzoneShirt OffOzone LayerSkin Cancer Author:Susan Elizabeth Phillips
“I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion.” IfsFeelsTodayHoursEmotionToo MuchHappenedRainSkinsTiredEightFortyCoatsNumbI'm TiredUmbrellaForty Eight Book:The Martian Chronicles Source: The Martian Chronicles