Email Quote by Jeff Dean

Skimming is fine for our emails, but it's not fine for some of the important forms of reading.

— Maryanne Wolf

Skimming has led, I believe, to a tendency to go to the sources that seem the simplest, most reduced, most familiar, and least cognitively…

— Maryanne Wolf

The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the…

— Paul Auster

You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.

— Andy Gilbert

They went down the list of every known charge conceivable to man - rackeering, skimming, kickback, ticket scalping. fixing fights, preordaining fights, vitaiting officials,…

— Don King

To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd…

— Sarah Addison Allen

I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards,…

— Frederick William Robertson

I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I…

— Tim O'Brien

What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Suppose that insect wings developed primarily as thermoregulators and then were used for skimming and finally flying, evolving along the way. What would they…

— Noam Chomsky

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

— William Bolitho

I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low. 'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there…

— Veronica Roth