“Make no mistake
She sheds her skin like a snake
On the dirty road to fame.”
Pete Doherty (1979) English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist
"There She Goes (A Little Heartache)"
Lyrics and poetry
Source: The Looking Glass Wars
“Make no mistake
She sheds her skin like a snake
On the dirty road to fame.”
Pete Doherty (1979) English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist
"There She Goes (A Little Heartache)"
Lyrics and poetry
“Yesterday is skin on snake, to be shed many times.”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Beyond The Highland Mist
David Harvey (1935) British anthropologist
Source: The Limits To Capital (2006 VERSO Edition), Chapter 10, Finance Capital And Its Contradictions, p. 327
“When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.”
Aimee Friedman (1979) American writer
Source: Sea Change
Marianne Moore (1887–1972) American poet and writer
"The Staff of Aesculapius"
The Poems of Marianne Moore (2003)
“Shedding off one more layer of skin, keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), Jokerman
“Like an ambassador that beds a queen
With the nice caution of a sword between.”
John Cleveland (1613–1658) English poet
The Antiplatonic (1653).
Andrew S. Grove (1936–2016) Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author
Andrew Grove, in: " What I've Learned: Andy Grove http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/interviews/a1449/learned-andy-grove-0500/", Esquire magazine, May 1, 2000 <br class="br">New millennium
William Zinsser (1922–2015) writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor
Source: On Writing Well (Fifth Edition, orig. pub. 1976), Chapter 13, Bits & Pieces, p. 136.