Skipping Quotes

63 quotes by 59 authors

He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming. — Arthur Balfour
I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement. — Jody Watley
I was relaxing in my parents' swimming pool with my brotherI asked him how the engineering business was going, and he reciprocated: 'How's the ministry… — Brian D. McLaren
Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity — Barney Kessel
A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his… — Blake Bailey
At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny… — Willard Wigan
The adult who puts his arm around his companion in the ballroom, and the child in the roadway, skipping in a round dance - they… — Curt Sachs
There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running. — Robert Breault
My mother-in-law had to stop skipping for exercise. It registered seven on the Richter scale. — Les Dawson
Donâ€™t worry about breaks every 20 minutes ruining your focus on a task. Contrary to what I might have guessed, taking regular breaks from mental… — Tom Rath
Laymen learn to read photographs the way they do headlines, skipping over them quickly to get the gist of what is being said. Photographers, on… — Howard S. Becker
As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with… — Madeleine L'Engle
I donâ€™t think itâ€™s possible to skip with a frown on your face.... Iâ€™d like to see the worldâ€™s governing and terrorist leaders on a… — Bindi Irwin
Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience. — Regina Spektor
The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is… — John Perry
I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've… — George Clinton
I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping… — Vince Flynn
This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a whole paragraph does… — Emil Artin
The way to heaven is too steep, too narrow for men to dance in and keep revel rout. No way is large or smooth enough… — William Prynne
O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is… — Thomas Haynes Bayly

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