Skittish Quotes

#1. Creation discloses a power that baffles our minds and beggars our speech. We are enamored and enchanted by God's power. We stutter and stammer about God's holiness. We tremble before God's majesty ...
and yet, we grow squeamish and skittish before God's love.

Brennan Manning

#2. I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.

Ethan Embry

#3. The moon made horns, the sky was gnarly. The cults were skittish.

China Mieville

#4. When I was dating, my girlfriends and I used to say, 'Don't cry in front of him before date three.' "
"Cry?" I echoed, frowning.
"Yeah. Guys gets skittish when you cry."
"I don't think I have to worry about that one."
"You don't cry?"
"I don't make it to date three.

Kasie West

#5. In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

Sloane Crosley

#6. After spending all that time in bed, I realized I was treating the act of eating as though it's the art of Zen, taking in just enough, a little at a time, slowly. Exactly the way I never did with food. Like dancing without passion, eating like that will never awaken your palate.

Kyung-ran Jo

#7. If ever thou shalt love,
In the sweet pangs of it remember me;
For such as I am all true lovers are,
Unstaid and skittish in all motions else
Save in the constant image of the creature
That is beloved.

William Shakespeare

#8. Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.

Edwin Way Teale

#9. The first dog I had was owned by an abusive couple. He was very skittish. He wouldn't let me hold him. It was explained to me that it was because of how he was treated.

Casey Affleck

#10. The heart was a bicameral thing, both stoical and skittish. Who was to say that it mightn't endure the years of separation and the abrupt reversals of fate, only to be repulsed by a misaligned vase, by a lipsticked tooth, by a hundredth of an ounce of ash?

Chris Cleave

#11. A good message will always find a messenger.

Amelia Barr

#12. I have danced at your skittish heels, my beautiful Bathsheba, for many a long mile and many a long day.

Thomas Hardy

#13. With me or without me?

Barbara Elsborg

#14. The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.

Mason Cooley

#15. Most boys' first hero is their father. That was definitely true of my dad. He was a proud Irish American and he taught me a lot about ethics and responsibility. He also introduced me to a lot of wonderful folk music.

John C. Reilly

#16. Just a kiss, Kitten."
"Kitten?" No one called her that.
His mouth curved. "You're skittish, wanting my touch, but afraid. Deciding if you want to claw me or purr for me. Like a kitten."
She lifted an eyebrow. "What if I claw you?"
"Bring it, baby. That

Jennifer Lyon

#17. People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.

Michele Bachmann

#18. The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

Plutarch

#19. Still, past assholes could make a person feel skittish. You had to be careful. It could all suddenly be different than you thought it was. A big possible mistake could be hidden anywhere, ready to blow up everything, same as stepping on a land mine.

Deb Caletti

#20. It's like being at an animal shelter, where I want to be the one the most skittish dog takes a liking to.

Emery Lord

#21. I wanted to ask her what the fuck was wrong but I had a date with a pack of skittish whores.

Andrew Vachss

#22. Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.

Anthony Trollope

#23. I'm behind you." I spun to see Derek. "I can't win," he said. "You're as skittish as a kitten.

Kelley Armstrong

#24. I've always been a little skittish about death. On certain days I'm okay with it. On other days it's like, "Really? I have to? No, man, not me."

Charlie Sheen

#25. My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.

Dolph Lundgren

#26. A skittish motorbike with a touch of blood in it is better than all the riding animals on earth, because of its logical extension of our faculties, and the hint, the provocation, to excess conferred by its honeyed untiring smoothness.

T.E. Lawrence

#27. You would have only seen a skittish young deer jumping through the forest, having no idea it was a little girl.

Kellie Thacker

#28. I don't talk about money.

Kim Kardashian

#29. I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

Anne Lamott

#30. I don't like watchingpeople get shot so I would be a little skittish about that - squeamish, but I must say, I don't think the argument that this is going to offend Muslims is a legitimate argument.

Jedediah Bila

#31. Honestly, I think some of my family members of a certain generation were more skittish about me playing a gay character on Six Feet Under than watching me play a killer.

Michael C. Hall

#32. So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

Fergie

#33. He understood now why she was so much calmer, so much happier when he held her hand while they walked. When he first did that, she had looked at their linked fingers quizzically, but didn't pull away, even though she had been as skittish as a stray cat. limit.

Sandra Ross

#34. "Was it okay?" he asked.
I smiled. "Better than okay."
"So I won my pass to date two?"
"You did."
"Good"
His face lowered toward mine and I knew what was coming. I knew it. But when his lips touched mine, I still jumped.
"S-sorry, I - I"
"Skittish as a cat," he murmured.

Kelley Armstrong

#35. The weapons room looked exactly the way something called "the weapons room" sounded like it would look.

Cassandra Clare

#36. You are a spitfire of a woman, do you know that? You remind me of a horse that hasn't been broken yet. All skittish and full of wild energy."
"Are you for real?" Her jaw fell open. "Did you just compare me to a horse?

Sara Humphreys