Shriveled Skin Quotes & Sayings

The original 'Caddyshack' with Chevy Chase and Bill Murray is one of the best comedies ever made. — Jonathan Silverman

You could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well. — Ellen Glasgow

He couldn't understand at all why he had let himself risk his skin for a dead shriveled-up part-nigger dwarf that had never done anything but get himself embalmed and then lain stinking in a museum the rest of his life. — Flannery O'Connor

I couldn't go on, too conscious all at once of my whispering, my eternal posturing, always transforming the world with words
changing nothing. — John Gardner

Sukhvinder wished that she could be more like Krystal: funny and tough; impossible to intimidate; always coming out fighting. — J.K. Rowling

A herd of old men with shriveled balls and spotted skin and young men with ridiculous hair. — George R R Martin

The GP, who she called immediately, fingers shaking as she dialled, exclaimed with joy. She didn't thinkdoctors were supposed to do that - register an emotional reaction to an outcome. — Elizabeth Noble

Leaves that rustled, twigs that scraped and rattled. But the thin shapes weren't falling, they were scurrying head first down the tree-trunks at a speed that seemed to leave time behind. Some of them had no shape they could have lived with, and some might never have had any skin. She saw their shriveled eyes glimmer eagerly and their toothless mouths gape with an identical infantile hunger. Their combined weight bowed the lowest branches while they extended arms like withered sticks to snatch the child. ("With The Angels") — Ramsey Campbell

While other creeds endeavor to get us out of the world and into heaven, in Christianity, heaven comes down and Christ comes into this world to get us. To suffer with us. We find favor - only because Christ feels pain. — Ann Voskamp

I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement. — Drew Barrymore

No, I'm not a lager lout either. I think you have to be a massive football fan to be a lager lout. — Hugh Dancy

Dammit," Holden said after he'd killed the connection. "You ever get the sense that the universe is out to get you?" "Sometimes I get the sense that the universe is out to get you," Amos said with a grin. "It's fun to watch. — James S.A. Corey

At least she was not a tall woman. She was a pixie, a pocket Venus. — Ann Patchett

Creativity is the opposite of TV. — Jerry Stahl

I was terrified of death by the time I was three or four, actively if not lucidly. I had frequent nightmares about snakes and scary neighbors. By the age of four or five, I was terrified by my thoughts. By the time I was five, the migraines began. I was so sensitive about myself and the world that I cried or shriveled up at the slightest hurt. People always told me, "You've got to get a thicker skin," like now they might say, jovially, "Let go and let God." Believe me, if I could, I would, and in the meantime I feel like stabbing you in the forehead. Teachers wrote on my report cards that I was too sensitive, excessively worried, as if this were an easily correctable condition, as if I were wearing too much of the violet toilet water little girls wore then. — Anne Lamott

No, it didn't hurt. He didn't want to lose any black hair, and he was careful to pull out the white hairs one by one. But when he had finished, the skin was drawn and shriveled. It hurt when you ran your hand over it, the doctor said. It didn't bleed, but it was raw and red. Finally he was put in a mental hospital ... He didn't want to be old, he wanted to be young again. No one seems to know whether he started pulling it out because he had lost his mind, or he lost his mind because he pulled out too much. — Yasunari Kawabata

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly. — Virginia Woolf

It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things ... — Aimee Bender

I've eaten things that didn't complain this much. — Denis Leary