Skip Quotes - Page 10

• Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.

  Neal Asher

  Boat, Window, Grass

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• If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

  Jackie Kennedy

  School, Rope, Tonight

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• You will not be able to stay home, brother./You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,/Skip out for beer during commercials,/Because the revolution will not be televised.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Brother, Home, Beer

  Title of song (1974)

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• I don't trust compliments. I've been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn't. But generally when people give you compliments there's one of two things wrong with them. Either they're false, or what's worse is they're sincere. They really mean the compliment. And then they're offering you their loyalty. And I'm kind of a stingy... Well, I don't necessarily want to give all that loyalty back. So either way, let's skip the compliments.

  Norman Mailer

  Loyalty, Mean, Two

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• It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove ever after to get their attention.

  Julie Smith

  Children, Years, Adults

  Julie Smith (1996). “House of Blues”, Fawcett

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• Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.

  Jack Welch

  Waste, Steps, Crisis

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• The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Art, Reading, Library

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.163

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• Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

  Talib Kweli

  Compassion, Distraction, Religion And Politics

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• It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.

  John Ruskin

  Discipline, May, Want

  John Ruskin (2015). “A Joy Forever”, p.113, John Ruskin

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• I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.

  Dimebag Darrell

  School, Kissing, Faces

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• I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and send them to friends. I treat menus like classic literature, refusing to skip even one word. I read the description of every item, regardless of whether or not I'm interested in eating it.

  Rachel Nichols

  Mean, Literature, Classic

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• A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

  Samuel Rogers

  Reading, Men, Doe

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• Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.

  Joan Crawford

  Childhood, Actors, Lollipop

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• The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.

  Julia Child

  Book, Cooking, Needs

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