Skimmed Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.
— George Iles
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They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail,…
— Charles Bukowski
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The train skimmed on softly, slithering, black pennants fluttering, black confetti lost on its own sick-sweet candy wind, down the hill, with the two boys…
— Ray Bradbury
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It's a shame for women's history to be all about men--first boys, then other boys, then men men men. It reminds me of the way…
— Elizabeth Kostova
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His fingers skimmed down her body, over skin and satin, and she shivered, leaning into him, and she was sure they both tasted like blood…
— Cassandra Clare
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This gown, is it cut from shadow?" the general asked. "I can barely feel it between my fingers." Not for want of trying, thought Madrigal.…
— Laini Taylor
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You said we've got a new page. I figure I've got some say in what gets written on it. So I'm going to work on…
— Nora Roberts
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...as the slow sea sucked at the shore and then withdrew, leaving the strip of seaweed bare and the shingle churned, the sea birds raced…
— Daphne du Maurier
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Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and re-read them...digest them...a student will find that his…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
— Philippa Gregory
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My life did change from Titanic, and for the better in many ways, but I was only 21, and there were some things that were…
— Kate Winslet
Who Wrote These Skimmed Quotes
13 authors contributed a total of 14 Skimmed Quotes as follows: