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“I just think the idea of moving away from the body and discovering sensuality by skimming the body, not tightening the body, seems rather new to me. Especially in this world where we're living right now, where the idea of giving freedom to women, especially in politics what's happening, it seemed so appealing to me, so that was the starting point.”

Thinking World Giving Ideas Body Seems Moving This World Right Now Happenings Starting Sensuality Discovering Starting Point Moving Away Living Right Skimming Living Right Now

Author:Prabal Gurung

“Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind - But what? On harsh weedstalks the flock has rested - the snow is covered with broken seed husks and the wind tempered with a shrill piping of plenty.”

Age Dark Failing Tree Wind Broken Bird Seeds Snow Old Age Flight Plenty Covered Harsh Flocks Skimming Bare Trees

Author:William Carlos Williams

“Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.”

Source: A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti

“I read hard, or not at all; never skimming, never turning aside to merely inciting books; and Plato, Aristotle, Butler, Thucydides, Sterne, Jonathan Edwards, have passed like the iron atoms of the blood into my mental constitution.”

Book Hard Reading Blood Constitution Iron Atoms Plato Butlers Skimming

Author:Frederick William Robertson

“in my skimmings over fiction I cannot recall any writer so continuously implicated in his own work as George Moore.”

Fiction Recalls Skimming

Author:Susan Mitchell

“General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.”

Littles Culture Society Habit Enthusiasm Charm Collections Charming Skimming

Author:William Bolitho

“Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze.”

Age Tree Bird Snow Old Age Flight Skimming Bare Trees

Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

“Real isn't what they try to tell you. Time isn't. Grown-ups hammer down all these markers, bells, schedules, coffee-breaks, to stake down time so you'll start believing it's something small and mean, something that scrapes flake after flake off of everything you love till there's nothing left; to stake you down so you don't lift off and fly away, somersaulting through whirlpools of months, skimming through eddies of glittering seconds, pouring handfuls of hours over your upturned face.”

Source: The Secret Place: Dublin Murder Squad: 5

“The best filmmakers, I think, have always had very narrow frameworks for their stories, and then they can go deeply, rather than skimming the surface.”

Thinking Stories Surface Filmmaker Framework Best Film Skimming

Book:Conversations with Paul Auster

Source: Conversations with Paul Auster

“Suppose that insect wings developed primarily as thermoregulators and then were used for skimming and finally flying, evolving along the way. What would they be "for"? Or what is the skeleton "for"? For keeping one upright, protecting organs, storing calcium, making blood cells...?”

Way Used Blood Wings Flying Cells Evolve Organs Insects Skeletons Calcium Skimming Blood Cells

Author:Noam Chomsky

“He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.”

Art Book Funny Reading Half Learning Refined Skimming

Author:Arthur Balfour

“To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.”

Years Book Stories Attention Findings Paid Expected Skimming

Book:Garden Spells

Source: Garden Spells

“Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro’s troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro’s warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.”

People Heart Littles Struggle Circumstances Brave Warm Magazines Chains Dozen Appreciated Fascination Tribute Submerged His Smile Incredulity Skimming

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.”

Mean Reading Cutting Reading Aloud Skimming

Book:Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

“Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.”

Dream Sky Eating Blue Drinking Parks Echoes Blue Sky Lotuses Dragonflies Skimming

Author:Janet Fitch

“I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story.”

Trying Years Stories Moving Realizing Dark My Own Surface Thirty Leap Riding Blades Thirty Years Loops Skimming Moving To Fast

Book:The Things They Carried

Source: The Things They Carried

“Many of our tribe went to the cliff each night to count the number killed during the day. They counted the dead otter and thought of the beads and other things that each pelt meant. But I never went to the cove and whenever I saw the hunters with their long spears skimming over the water, I was angry, for these animals were my friends. It was fun to see them playing or sunning themselves among the kelp. It more fun than the thought of beads to wear around my neck.”

Long Night Fun Water Animal Numbers Saws My Friends Angry Necks Tribes Hunters Cliffs Spears Beads Otters Skimming

Book:Island of the Blue Dolphins: The Complete Reader's Edition

Source: Island of the Blue Dolphins: The Complete Reader's Edition

“I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low. 'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me - they showed you the test results that proved it. And even I started to believe it.' He touches my face, his thumb skimming my cheekbone, and his eyes are on mine, intense and insistent. 'You never believed it,' he says 'Not for a second. You always insisted I was... I don't know, whole.”

Knows Believe Whole Eye Wanted Faces Voice Results Groups Mines Lows Tests Scientist Intense His Eyes Genes Thumbs Tobias Cheekbones Skimming

Author:Veronica Roth

“... It was the idea of facing a future skimming the surface of life, winging my way in and out of other people's crises, confusions, and passages, engaging them enough to get the story, but never enough to be indelibly touched by what I had seen or heard.”

People Way Ideas Enough Stories Heard Crisis Surface Confusion Journalism My Way Touched Passages Engaging Skimming

Book:Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue

Source: Object Lessons: One True Thing ; Black and Blue

“What happiness this is: to fly, skimming over the earth just as we do in our dreams! Life has become a dream. Can this be the meaning of paradise?”

Dream Earth Flight Paradise Aviation Our Dreams Skimming

Book:The last temptation of Christ

Source: The last temptation of Christ

“They went down the list of every known charge conceivable to man - rackeering, skimming, kickback, ticket scalping. fixing fights, preordaining fights, vitaiting officials, corrupting judges, all the way down to laundering money. Everything but the Lindbergh baby.”

Men Way Fighting Known Judging Baby Lists Officials Boxing Tickets Fixing Skimming

Author:Don King

“It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.”

Art Depth Surface Mediocrity Ballet Superficial Obscurity Degenerates Skimming Superficial Things

Author:Jean-Georges Noverre

“It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but de-spangled gossamer threads hung on the bushes and the shrill little cries of unrest of the swallows skimming the green open park spaces of the park told of autumn and change.”

Littles Stills Space White Morning Tree Sky Cry Blue Green Clouds Parks Sunshine Autumn Yellow Thick Thread Hung Mist October Unrest Rift White Clouds Skimming

Author:Flora Thompson

“You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.”

Bigs Courage Fishes Surface Big Fish Skimming

Author:Andy Gilbert