Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

It's hard to feel comfortable in your own skin when you're younger.

Tony Judt

There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.

Tom Waits

it ain't no sin, to take off your skin and dance around in your bones

Steve McFadden

My approach to 'Eastenders' is the same as my approach to film and the same approach to theatre. Whatever I do, I use the same skills and tools.

Stephen Hawking

Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the universe, or you just want to pursue a career in the 21st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn

Spencer Wells

We are all Africans under the skin.

Shailene Woodley

I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.

Shahrukh Khan

Like beauty, stardom too is skin-deep.

Rajeev Shukla

Sehwag shall be remembered for his explosive and natural cricketing skills. Wish him all success on his birthday.

Rahul Dravid

Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.

Terence McKenna

It's as important to be well informed in this area, if you're going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you're going to do that.

Temple Grandin

When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.

Taylor Swift

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

Stephenie Meyer

You don’t have anything like this. For crying out loud, you only own one skirt!

Thomas Harris

It rubs the lotion on its skin. It does this whenever it is told.

Thomas Frank

Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.

Thomas Boswell

Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we need to fence off a few parks where humans try to be fair, where skill has some hope of reward, where absurdity has a harder time than usual getting a ticket.

Thom Gunn

The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin.

Vince Cable

The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

Richard Davidson

Happiness and well-being are actually best regarded as skills.

Kanye West

There's nothing I really wanted to do in life that I wasn't able to get good at. That's my skill. I'm not really specifically talented at anything except for the ability to learn. That's what I do. That's what I'm here for.

Warren Miller

The best thing about skiing backwards is you can see where you've been.

Warren G. Bennis

Recognize the skills and traits you don't possess, and hire the people who have them.

Saint Basil

We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.

Saint Augustine

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

Zadie Smith

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

Zachary Quinto

I'm also really fulfilled by having a production company and producing movies, and learning about how that works and happens. It's a totally, entirely separate skill set and it's one that I happen to also enjoy. So, I intend to cultivate all of those things until I can't anymore. That's my goal. I love to be challenged and busy, and so far, so good. I'm just going to do whatever I can to continue to encourage that.

Zainab Salbi

From joblessness to lack of education and professional skills to sexual and gender-based violence, women face a multi-faceted oppression.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

Vincent Nichols

We're losing social skills, the human interaction skills, how to read a person's mood, to read their body language, how to be patient until the moment is right to make or press a point. Too much exclusive use of electronic information dehumanises what is a very, very important part of community life and living together.

Will Smith

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

Vladimir Bukovsky

Investigation is a subtle process, requiring patience and fine analytical ability, as well as a skill in cultivating one's sources. When torture is condoned, these rare talented people leave the service, having been outstripped by less gifted colleagues with their quick-fix methods, and the service itself degenerates into a playground for sadists.

Virginia Woolf

I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.