Being a grandmother is a wonderful thing, so my advice is skip the children. Go straight to the grandchildren. — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile. — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind. — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove… — Julie Smith Copy Share Image
You think I led him on? For what? Kicks? I don't have enough exictement in my life, so maybe I'll tease a… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step. — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much. — Nick Simmons Copy Share Image
Climate change is important to Malawi, but many people see alternative energy more as a means to skip the government and get… — William Kamkwamba Copy Share Image
I still run into people in the business who skip over any other credits I have and say, 'I loved 'Hey, Dude!''… — Graham Yost Copy Share Image
If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I've had to… — Lorrie Fair Copy Share Image
A story matrix connects all of us. There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
That lifestyle wears you down fast, so I started to take better care of myself. I exercise, sleep eight hours a night,… — Beth Riesgraf Copy Share Image
The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I just don't think people listen. I mean, they can't listen to a whole album closely without checking their iPhone or wanting… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
If everything is made so obvious that it asks nothing of the readers, then after a while, their ability to respond is… — Frances Clarke Sayers Copy Share Image
Obviously, you've got to make the chase first, so first things first - get in the chase. But I've been saying it… — Greg Biffle Copy Share Image
Photography is to the layman perhaps the most enticing art. As a buff and a follower, at a respectful distance, I find… — Norman Corwin Copy Share Image
Choosing one thing over another doesn't necessarily mean we love the thing we choose. If given the choice to eat spinach or… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
Don't skip class. Just...don't. No good comes from it. Your parents are paying for it so be considerate. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over,… — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
Hey, hey! How 'bout you just skip down to the part where you tell me what the fuck this has to do… — John Mcclane Copy Share Image
All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run,… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight. — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have… — E. Nesbit Copy Share Image
You can be just as faithful to a place or a thing as you can to a person. A place can really… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing! — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
You take your steps, you don't skip through and try to go straight to the top, that's just disrespectful. — Greg Hardy Copy Share Image
Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“I left in a hurry before he could change his mind, but I want to make it clear that at no point… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have… — Barbara Bush Copy Share Image
After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day. — Kate Walsh Copy Share Image
I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats,… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
While I hear from readers all the time that they love learning new things, I never want to do an "info-dump." Boring!… — Jane Cleland Copy Share Image
