Skirt Around Quotes

#1. Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.

Kelli O'Hara

#2. So, as one famous writer said, "You need to know the rules first before you can break the rules". I do know the rules, but sometimes I choose to skirt around the edges, not enough to draw a penalty but certainly enough to raise some eyebrows.

Stan Schatt

#3. Neighbors would pass, and when they honked I'd remember that I was in my Speedo. Then I'd wrap my towel like a skirt around my waist and remind my sisters that this was not girlish but Egyptian, thank you very much.

David Sedaris

#4. I can tell when an actor's forcing tears, and it's tricky because you then have to film it and edit in a certain way to skirt around the issue.

Drew Barrymore

#5. Leave Ueno Station through the park entrance, go past the concert hall and museums, skirt around the fountain, and you come to a sort of tree garden. Homeless people live here, in tents made of sky-blue plastic sheeting and wooden poles. The best tents even have doors.

David Mitchell

#6. Madeline Hatter. Her lavender-streaked teal hair exploded around her in messy curls. The polka-dotted, striped, and lacy layers of her skirt were bunched and fluffed. Her teacup hat tilted low over one ear. "Whoops,

Shannon Hale

#7. As a child, I was prancing around in my mother's high heels and a ra-ra skirt, singing 'Material Girl' into my hairbrush.

Natalie Dormer

#8. Wave of sound swept over the ring as every man in the convocation shouted together.

Wilbur Smith

#9. My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.

Maira Kalman

#10. Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

Harvey Weinstein

#11. What if talking about your feelings doesn't fix anything? What if what you really need is to make the feelings go away?

Amy Reed

#12. So, thought Peace, there was a wall around his heart and she wondered whether she should hoist up her skirt and scale that wall, but she knew she didn't have the right shoes on for that sort of climb because hers were too sensible for a man like Drake.

Sarah Winman

#13. It was what remained to a relationship after the first euphoria of the romance had faded.

Mary Balogh

#14. I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life,

Coco Chanel

#15. I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.

Brian Molko

#16. Even men without a gospel have their Mount of Olives. And one must not fall asleep on theirs either.

Albert Camus

#17. What? Don't British women know how to use their knees?

Shannon Hale

#18. Women love having a man in the store. She tries on a dress and I tell her to turn around so I can get the full effect. Or she likes a skirt but she thinks maybe the blouse is too plain. So I grab a scarf and drape it around her neck. That personal attention means everything.

M.R. Cornelius

#19. Women are walking around on the streets. From her calf and the hem of her skirt to her hip, from her hair to the high heels on her feet, a young woman is freedom. Especially when you look at her from afar.

Hwang Sok-yong

#20. To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world's night utters the holy.

Martin Heidegger

#21. The heel of my white kidskin boot ripped a six-inch gash in the hem of my skirt as I whipped around the corner.

Rysa Walker

#22. Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.

Barack Obama

#23. Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

Frank Lloyd Wright

#24. Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.

Thomas Pynchon

#25. I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.

I. King Jordan

#26. Jonah squealed, jumping up and down and shaking his pom-poms. His skirt swished around his scrawny yellow knees.
"Jonah, can I give you a piece of sisterly advice?"
"Yeah."
"If you ever want to lose your virginity, don't do that again. Ever.

Carrie Harris

#27. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

Erin Morgenstern

#28. As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.

Jeanette Winterson