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People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you. -- Janet Jackson
I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists. -- Yann Martel
I have learned that a bitter experience can make you stronger. I now boastfully say that I have a hide like a rhinoceros... and I'm smiling. It's an interesting thing. -- Mel Gibson
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. -- David Attenborough
Whatever causes you to drop your plan forward and open to your vision, your own, deeply personal vision of what your life could be at its very best, that's what I call meeting your rhinoceros. -- Martha Beck
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros. -- Ethel Barrymore
My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide! -- Eleanor Roosevelt
A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros. -- Jeanette Winterson
Leaders need to cultivate two things: a righteous heart and a rhinoceros skin. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide, -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I am teaching...It's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros. -- Anne Sexton
Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man. -- Myrtle Reed
Qualifications of a pastor: the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros -- Stuart Briscoe
Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction. -- Elvis Costello
The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age. -- Winston Churchill
A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful. -- Peter S. Beagle
There are friendships to one who lives in society; thus our present grief arises from having friendships; observing the evils resulting from friendship, let one walk alone like a rhinoceros. --
What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble. -- William Shakespeare
A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart. -- Vance Havner
I have a friend who says that reviewers are the tickbirds of the literary rhinoceros-but he is being kind. Tickbirds perform a valuable service to the rhino and the rhino hardly notices the birds. -- John Irving

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