#skin

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission. ↗

— Lion Feuchtwanger

#answers #asking #author #composer #expecting

I don't miss anything about the 1960s, not really. I did it. It's like asking, 'Do you miss the fourth grade?' I loved the fourth grade when I was in it, but I don't want to do it again. ↗

— Grace Slick

#again #anything #asking #did #fourth

I don't exercise. I'm skinny-fat. I worry about being too skinny. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#being #exercise #i #skinny #too

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?' ↗

— Henry Miller

#ask #asking #bring #damage #good

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA. ↗

— Fred Upton

#american consumer #carbon #consumer #cuts #electricity

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

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#civilization #lamb #skin #which

She was every inch the skeletal goddess that had been promised by the bones of her feet. ↗

— Jefferson Smith

#body-image #bones #dieting #fantasy #feet

Bring back Sally Jesse Rafael! That's all I'm asking. ↗

— Jacob Young

#back #bring #i #jesse #sally

I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . . ↗