Skipping Quotes

63 quotes by 59 authors

Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits. — Phyllis Schlafly
'Constitutional' is just a real pip of a word. Positively rolls off the tongue. In fact, it's downright fun to say. 'Con-stit-too-shun-al.' It's the verbal… — Paul Feig
One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to… — Hugh Jackman
You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else.… — John Irving
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me. — Jonathan Lethem
Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for… — Daniel Handler
April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes… — Elizabeth Smart
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping… — Doris Lessing
My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when… — Garrison Keillor
The light was leaving in the west it was blue The children's laughter sang and skipping just like the stones they threw the voices echoed… — Jack Johnson
Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase. — Anne Fadiman
Skipping school isn't a crime. It's an infraction. They're totally different. — Cory Doctorow
It's hard to maintain a reputation for being grim and mysterious when you're accompanied by a brightly clad young thing, skipping merrily along at your… — Simon R. Green
We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by… — Flannery O'Connor
Bruno opened his eyes in wonder at the things he saw. In his imagination he had tough that all the huts were full of happy… — John Boyne
Graves: Are you skipping? Off to a good start. Dru Anderson: I donâ€™t want to deal with it today. Graves: Okay. I know a place… — Lilith Saintcrow
There is not enough blood in her veins to keep her heart from skipping. — Christopher Pike
The truth, she found, felt smooth, like a skipping stone in the palm of your hand. — Laini Taylor
Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself.… — Anne Sexton
You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world,… — Stewart O'Nan

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