Skip Quotes

#1. We'll put your brains back in, then snap his wings."
"Can't we just skip to the end right now?"
Xander's head bobbed up and down, eyes bright. "Hell yes.

Ashlan Thomas

#2. I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that helped feed my love of laughter.

Fred Astaire

#3. And yet she continues to skip rope in my mind and on my canvases, raising her dark, hopeful face to the sky, innocent of the depth of people's cruelty toward "the other" - those who, for whatever reason, must swim against the tide instead of letting it carry them. . .

Wally Lamb

#4. I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.

Kate Walsh

#5. Simon watched a kelpie skip past, carrying a glass of blue fluid, and raised an eyebrow.
"It's not like Magnus's party," Isabelle reassured him. "Everything here ought to be safe to drink."
"Ought to be?" Aline look worried.

Cassandra Clare

#6. My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka.

Rashid Johnson

#7. Lightspeed travel between worlds had let him skip like a stone over the surface of time.

Orson Scott Card

#8. I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale.

Calvin Trillin

#9. My face? Turn-on. Chest? Turn-on. I'd roll over and show you my ass, but we both know the answer will be 'turn-on' so I'll skip that one. Dick? Turn the fuck on. And then we get to the non-physical awesomeness that is Dean.

Elle Kennedy

#10. I went to college for a reason, and that was to skip the minor leagues. I spent a year in the minors and got my at-bats in, and then I felt like I was ready for the big leagues.

Mark Teixeira

#11. Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

Knute Rockne

#12. I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.

Joanna Lumley

#13. I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

Michael Palin

#14. I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just ... ugh, you know?

Alan Ball

#15. Heaven is not for people who just want to skip hell. Heaven is reserved for those who love Jesus, who have been rescued by Him and who long to praise Him.

Matt Chandler

#16. 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 run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#17. You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard, we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example, if you're in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don't have time to make breakfast, you skip it.

Curtis Stone

#18. It seems The Adversary needs neither their guilt nor their request, but simply their return. In other words, since repentance is the process whereby guilt is turned into gratitude, He doesn't mind if they skip a step and go directly to gratitude.

Geoffrey Wood

#19. So, way I see it, you can either go skip-skip-skippin' down this merry trail she's blazed for you, or you can lay back in the tall grass for a while, see if maybe you can figure out what the fuck is going on." The

Scott Hawkins

#20. I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

Jenny Eclair

#21. By being an elite athlete a lot of people think that you can go away or go places and get away with things. I'm more of the laid-back person. I don't have to go and skip the line. I don't have a problem waiting.

Andre Johnson

#22. YouTube offers the best solution by running an ad before showing the video, but also offering a 'skip ad' button that you can click after five seconds to go directly to the video if you are not interested in the ad. Now, that's what I call consumer sovereignty!

Mark Skousen

#23. Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

Sarah Josepha Hale

#24. Leave out the parts readers tend to skip. (Elmore Leonard)

First you do it for the love of it, then you do it for a few friends, and finally you do it for money. (Moliere)

Jan Shapin

#25. Of course money buys happiness. You ever seen a homeless person skip? The answer to that riddle's no. They're not allowed.

Daniel Tosh

#26. With great love comes occasions of pain. You can't skip the pain; without it, you would never know what a precious thing love is. You wouldn't know to hang onto it. You wouldn't know to fight for it.
You embrace the pain because the love makes it all worthwhile.

Theresa Smith

#27. Children who eat breakfast are statistically more likely to do well at school than children who skip breakfast.

Nessa Carey

#28. CHAPTER VII WHICH THE GENTEEL READER IS RECOMMENDED TO SKIP, LOW PERSONS BEING HERE INTRODUCED

Charlotte Bronte

#29. How can I come this far and not tell him-he, who would understand it best-that by giving me that flyer, by inviting me to skip Hamlet, he helped me realize that it's not to be that matters, but how to be?
How can I come this far and not be brave?

Gayle Forman

#30. Really dig into projects people have worked on and call references; that is another thing that first time founders like to skip.

Sam Altman

#31. Be the kind of person who takes supplements
then skip the supplements.

Michael Pollan

#32. I had liefer twenty years/Skip to the broken music of my brains/Than any broken music thou canst make.

Alfred Tennyson

#33. Knowing the path to follow doesn't make it a breeze to step along. If every desire were only a skip, hop, and a jump away, we'd all have arrived.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Jackie Kennedy

#35. 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 a hike instead. Take the stairs. Walk your errands.

Daphne Oz

#36. You can't ask questions like that. Everything has to be done in the right order, or the whole narrative falls to pieces. One thing has to follow another. You can't skip over anything or move things along faster. One step at a time.

Adele Geras

#37. Growing up as a young black girl in Potomac, Maryland was easy. I had a Rainbow Coalition of friends of all ethnicities, and we would carelessly skip around our elementary school like the powerless version of Captain Planet's Planeteers.

Issa Rae

#38. 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 old wishes that never came true. We are hand grenades (and every word you say pulls the pin). We are all gods, we are all monsters.

Pete Wentz

#39. Americans tend to overanalyze. Like during the space race, NASA spent fifty thousand dollars developing a zero-gravity pen that didn't skip. Know what the Russians did? Pencil. Think about

Tim Dorsey

#40. A story matrix connects all of us.
There are rules, processes, and circles of responsibility in this world. And the story begins exactly where it is supposed to begin. We cannot skip any part.

Joy Harjo

#41. If the name or shape weren't odd enough, the McRib has a strange "here today, gone tomorrow" existence. Like a serial deadbeat dad, the McRib arrives with great fanfare only to skip town without warning.

Jim Gaffigan

#42. All night his mind seemed to skip over the surface of sleep like a stone upon water, never quite breaking the skin. As

Justin Cronin

#43. Well, most people would have said 'thank you' after they'd been given help, and then I would have responded to that with 'you're welcome'. I figured we'd skip straight to my part since social graces aren't your forte.

Heather James

#44. The only other time I can recall my dad getting upset at me was when I missed a hockey practice. My parents were away, so my buddy and I decided to skip it. I never told my dad about it, but he found out from the coach.

Mike Weir

#45. Life is too short to skip the sprinkles.

Pandora Spocks

#46. Since the beginning is where things seem perfect and the ending is always tragic, why don't we skip to the middle? There're good things in the middle.

Jay Crownover

#47. Hand over the prophecy and no one need get hurt," said Malfoy coolly.
It was Harry's turn to laugh.
"Yeah, right!" he said. "I will give you this - prophecy, is it? And you'll just let us skip off home, will you?

J.K. Rowling

#48. It's not a giant thing, like graduation, Mardi Gras, Halloween or New Year's. We do get business from it. That's why we put stuff out; we don't skip it. It's our big thing for March.

Suzanne Smith

#49. When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow.

Tamora Pierce

#50. I don't enjoy being in Europe for weeks on end, so I just skip it.

Lindsay Davenport

#51. I'd never done a straight play before, never, and it was very hard work - really, really hard work. It was dense, really wordy, and I was determined to learn every word of it - not just skip over bits and pieces.

Bette Midler

#52. Trust me, kids - your homework can wait. Don't need to be doing homework while Whose Line is on; skip it!

Drew Carey

#53. That lifestyle wears you down fast, so I started to take better care of myself. I exercise, sleep eight hours a night, take vitamins, eat organic foods, skip foods that aren't good for me, and I surround myself with amazing artists and friends.

Beth Riesgraf

#54. Skip meeting him? The butterflies, the pounding heart, the blushing? The part where you enter each other's magnetic fields for the first time, and it's like invisble lines of energy are drawing you together-

Laini Taylor

#55. Piper's attention focused. All right. I zoned out there, but what? Skip all the feelings parts.

Maggie Stiefvater

#56. My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.

Liberace

#57. Tell me things I won't mind forgetting, she said. 'Make it useless stuff or skip it.

Amy Hempel

#58. The bible is an instruction book you don't want to skip reading.

Amanda Penland

#59. I skip the introduction. If the book goes in the trash, I want it to go because of my thoughts on it, not because of some Asshole's thoughts who wrote the introduction.

James Frey

#60. I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.

Adam Gopnik

#61. I went to school on Senior Skip Day.

Derek Jeter

#62. 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

#63. Winning is a lot of fun. I remember having a meeting a couple years ago and telling the guys: 'You're not enjoying yourselves.' O'Neill said to me afterwards, 'Skip, it's not fun unless you win.'

Joe Torre

#64. Some segments of this book may be rough going. That's the nature of real science. It requires thought. Sometimes deep thought. But thinking can be rewarding. You can just skip the rough parts, or you can struggle to understand.

Kip S. Thorne

#65. We never read the full explanatory surroundings of marvelously exciting things when we have no occasion to suppose that some irresponsible scribbler is trying to defraud us; we skip all that, and hasten to revel in the blood-curdling particulars and be happy.

Mark Twain

#66. If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards.

Annie Proulx

#67. The Naughty List - People who skim or outright skip acknowledgments pages. Please contact the management for your free, all-expenses-paid pass to Christmasland.

Joe Hill

#68. Kestrel's laugh was white in the cold. "We could gamble for your coat."
"Ah, love, why don't we skip to the part where you win and I give it to you?

Marie Rutkoski

#69. The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!

William Cowper

#70. I have a flat tummy, but I'm not rock hard. If I'm going to be in a bikini, I'll train more and skip desserts for a couple of weeks. But usually, I work out to feel good.

Nina Dobrev

#71. 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

#72. I love the fact that we are surrounded by this spectacular natural beauty that routinely strikes us dead. Hikers walk off into the woods and are never seen again. And still we tug on our fleece and skip off into the wilderness, not a care in the world.

Chelsea Cain

#73. If Rafe had drawn up a list of tasks at Phoebe's age, he could only imagine it would have looked thusly: 1. Skip lessons. 2. Chase girls. 3. Any excuse for a fistfight. 4. Is that a squirrel? End of list.

Tessa Dare

#74. Let me tell you, if your marriage is in trouble, skip the therapist and find a psycho. Nothing brings people together faster.

David Edelstein

#75. When you try on something, you have to ask yourself, 'How many ways could I wear this? Could I wear it to work? To dinner or drinks? Will it span the seasons' If you have to think too hard about those questions, then skip it.

Michael Kors

#76. What use to skip those two grades in grammar school and get such a jump on everybody else,
when the result is to wind up so far behind?

Philip Roth

#77. You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

Burt Ward

#78. My heart is sore. In my dream I toss it across an asphalt pavement, watching it skip like a stone. Just

Dudley Delffs

#79. Philosophy is the childhood of the intellect, and a culture that tries to skip it will never grow up.

Thomas Nagel

#80. Off we skip like the most heartless things in the world, which is what children are, but so attractive; and we have an entirely selfish time, and then when we have need of special attention we nobly return for it, confident that we shall be rewarded instead of smacked.

J.M. Barrie

#81. I read once about the concepts of a lateral idea and the vertical idea. If you dig a hole and it's in the wrong place, digging it deeper isn't going to help. The lateral idea is when you skip over and dig someplace else.

Seymour Chwast

#82. Philosophy that satisfies its own intention, and does not childishly skip behind its own history and the real one, has its lifeblood in the resistance against the common practices of today and what they serve, against the justification of what happens to be the case.

Theodor Adorno

#83. We could skip the mistletoe...."
Lilah was afraid if she let Sam Lawton kiss her, it might end up as a lot more. Her bed was up those stairs. Maybe they would make it to the bed.

Mary J. Williams

#84. She longs for tonight, she longs to skip the day that's just begun and plunge headlong into the night as if into a pool; a pool with the moon reflected in it. She longs to swim in liquid moonlight.

Margaret Atwood

#85. I left in a hurry before he could change his mind, but I want to make it clear that at no point did I break into a skip

Ben Aaronovitch

#86. After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish anything at all about it.

Denise Duhamel

#87. On 'Southland,' when a helicopter joins our scene, we don't skip a beat. The actors talk louder because that's what cops do in real life.

Shawn Hatosy

#88. A successful novel should interrupt the reader's life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

Stephen King

#89. 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 side seven rounds doing the same thing. Skipping, skipping, skipping. Then I go seven rounds going both ways. Skip to the left, skip to the right.

George Foreman

#90. My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.

Arthur Smith

#91. You gotta climb the steps ... you can't skip them

Zig Ziglar

#92. My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.

Rupert Everett

#93. When a court officer suggested quarantine for Nerissa, she grabbed the man's pen and jammed it into the back of his hand, screaming that he was a Crimson Guard witch come to remove her memories and replace them with bird-song.
They decided to skip quarantine after that.

Caitlin Kittredge

#94. I wouldn't say I'm addicted, but I never, ever skip yoga. I use it to calm down and slow down.

April Gornik

#95. If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day ... You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning ...

Walter Mosley

#96. Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.

Banana Yoshimoto

#97. If you were to skip your time with God, would you be more concerned about missing the mark or missing God?

Vicki Courtney

#98. I can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing comes.

William Sleator

#99. There's a million was of saying
words that mean you won't be staying.
But couldn't we just skip the bye-ing?
We could stay and keep on hi-ing!

Rebecca Doughty

#100. All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don't tiptoe.

Shane Claiborne