Famous quotes containing the words skin and/or envelope:
“Western hospitality prevails; it is reminiscent of the kind displayed earlier here by a host who said to an unexpected guest, Stranger, you take the wold skin and the chaw o sowbellyIll rough it.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)