Pastoral Resources

A thick skin is a gift from God.

Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

We all liked the Descendants and stuff like that, so we started playing it. It's not that it was really hard, well, it does take skill to play fast and keep up your stamina. But it was something that just happened.

The night is a skin pulled over the head of day that the day may be in torment.

My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.

Skin is made in large measure of a protein called collagen.

Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.