Unskillfully Quotes

#1. Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

Francis Bacon

#2. One should write not unskillfully in the running hand, be able to sing in a pleasing voice and keep good time to music; and, lastly, a man should not refuse a little wine when it is pressed upon him.

Yoshida Kenko

#3. So humor me for a minute, and look out your window. What did you see?

Hope Jahren

#4. My parents tried to shield me from how famous they were when I was growing up on Long Island. I had no idea.

Alexa Ray Joel

#5. My partner is a Frenchman, so I have got to smell right.

Halle Berry

#6. The worst ... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

Iris Chang

#7. I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.

Janet Reno

#8. There must be freedom while we are still very young - not freedom to do what we like, but freedom to understand very deeply our own instincts and urges.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#9. Laughter is grace in its gaseous form.

Cathleen Falsani

#10. There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.

Lena Headey

#11. An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.

Upton Sinclair

#12. Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.

Karrin Allyson

#13. 'Reluctantly Healthy' is so completely different than what I do for a living. It's really what I wanted it to be, which is learning to be healthy.

Judy Greer

#14. I knew I had looked into the eyes of a lost soul, Austin, the man's outward form remained, but all hell was within it.

Arthur Machen