Skip Quotes
235 quotes by 216 authors
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This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Solving the following riddle will reveal the awful secret behind the universe, assuming you do not go utterly mad in the attempt. If you already…
— David Wong
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When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men…
— Joss Whedon
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Save your world. Love it. Protect it, and respect it and don't let haters represent it. Don't leave the saving to anyone else, ever, because,…
— James Patterson
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I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from…
— Madeline Miller
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This story never really had a point. It’s just a lull - a skip in the record. We are addresses in ghost towns. We are…
— Pete Wentz
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The preface? Why would he waste time with the preface? Skip the preface and move on to the meat of the thing!
— Kenneth Oppel
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Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to. Stay home on New Year's Eve if that's what…
— Susan Cain
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is…
— Alan Lightman
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You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.
— Elmore Leonard
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No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.
— Hal Borland
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As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and…
— Jessica Jackley
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My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a…
— James D. Watson
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Exercise is important, but exercise in a gym is not important. Go and take a walk outside. Skip the umpteenth coffee date and go for…
— Daphne Oz
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When I step into the ring with someone, this has got to be their vacation spot, but my home turf. So I go the opposite…
— George Foreman
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Entrepreneurship is like a computer game in which you have to master every level before achieving success. Startups repeatedly stumble and have to go back…
— Vivek Wadhwa
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Every week, I heave open a supermarket skip and find therein a more exotic shopping list of items than I could possibly have invented -…
— Tristram Stuart
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The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house.
— Craig Brown
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Just as there is something about an empty skip that makes you want to fill it, so there is something about a full skip that…
— Craig Brown
Who Wrote These Skip Quotes
216 authors contributed a total of 235 Skip Quotes, led by these top contributors: