#skin

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#barely #child #himself #into #language

In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already. ↗

— John Corbett

#being #different #done #fat #good

Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#asking #concept #guard #like #live

You're asking the wrong girl about fame. I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else. ↗

— Nikki Cox

#anyone #asking #else #fame #famous

I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's just for the night while they're in the cinema; in that moment, I want to bring actual tears to their eyes and goosebumps to their skin. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#bring #cinema #even #eyes #goosebumps

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#boy #first #first kiss #his #i

What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin. ↗

— Chris Daughtry

#card #cool #i #i do #sit

I know that Duke made a number of demands, including that the attorney general drop its investigation. We have no intention of asking the attorney general to do that. ↗

— Gray Davis

#attorney #attorney general #demands #drop #duke

May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#caught #legally #married #may #prison

People are constantly asking Portia and me if we are going to have children. We thought about it. We love to be around children after they've been fed and bathed. But we ultimately decided that we don't want children of our own. There is far too much glass in our house. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#after #around #asking #bathed #been