Best Skip Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Folk can’t learn their lessons if they skip school.”

Source: The Desert Spear

“You can become good at procrastinating your opportunities by giving flimsy excuses. But never forget that it is rather your success that you are skipping away.”

Success Opportunity Food For Thought Israelmore Ayivor Opportunities Excuses Skip Procrastinating Procrastinate Flimsy Excuses Push Away

Book:Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

Source: Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“Eyes and ears are two. Lungs and kidneys, too. I wonder then why we're born with one heart that skips a beat when hay is here, and beats quickly when you are near. One heart that cracks when you are far, lie to me and leave a scar. I wonder then why we're born with one heart that gets broken. Was I supposed to find you then? So your heart would make one plus one is two for me and two for you.”

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Author:Kamand Kojouri

“Actually, I think living's the worst habit.”

Life Habit Skip

Book:Hearts in Atlantis

Source: Hearts in Atlantis

“It’s hard for committed person to skip and run from the situation.”

Situation Committed Skip

Author:Kishore Bansal

“The past/future can't be changed! The things which are written to happen, they can't be skipped.”

Past Written Future Skip Skipped

Book:The Life Of One Kid

Source: The Life Of One Kid

“I want to have a choice to skip life events and the whole life as a overall.”

Life Whole Events Skip Overall

Author:Deyth Banger

“Life is a Pattern, skip it or decline it... but you just can't stop it from going on and on.”

Decline Skip Pattern

Author:Deyth Banger

“It helped that my father had finally found his true calling. We could all breathe easier knowing he was now busy managing day-to-day operations in hell. Some would say it was wrong to disrespect the dead, but I'd say his inability to respect the living was the greater crime.”

Skip The Walshes Erin Walsh

Book:The Spire

Source: The Spire

“Being given shit doesn't require me to accept it," she said.”

Skip The Walshes Erin Walsh

Book:The Spire

Source: The Spire

“If everyone was opportuned to know the day of their death, they would not skip a day without trying to make their lives extraordinary.”

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Book:Sips And Little Portions

Source: Sips And Little Portions

“We're gonna play some pool, skip some school, act real cool, stay out all night, it's gonna be alright.”

Real Play School Night Education Pool All Night Alright Skip

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.”

Enough Parent Brain Risk Teenager Uncertain Weeping Evaluate Skip Uncertain Future Volvo

Author:Michael J. Fox

“I sometimes skip meals when I travel.”

Sometimes Meals Skip

Author:Amy Smart

“If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.”

Ifs Trying May Happiness Used Chance Steps Buddhism Pure Used To Be Motive Chances Are Meditating Skip Vibrate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

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Author:Burt Ward

“I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.”

World Way Mean Home Age My Own Childhood Skip

Author:Ben Mendelsohn

“I still run into people in the business who skip over any other credits I have and say, 'I loved 'Hey, Dude!'' This was back in '88, '89, '90. It was a goofy show about kids working at a dude ranch in Arizona. We did 65 episodes; I wrote 13 of them. We didn't know what we were doing, but it was writers' boot camp. It was great.”

People Knows Stills Shows Running Kids Credit Hey Camps Boots Episodes Skip Arizona Goofy Boot Camp

Author:Graham Yost

“Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.”

Way Writing Children Art Mice Rope Surgeons Skip Thurber

Author:E. B. White

“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!”

Wells Reading Minutes Cry Scene Preaching Fifteen Skip Hem

Book:The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel

Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel

“In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.”

Able Mother Creativity Stage Creator Producers Productive Magnitude Skip Gestation Loafing

Book:Teacher in America

Source: Teacher in America

“How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.”

Ifs Giving Should Long Moments Past Worry Should Have Forgotten Present Moment Long Ago Over The Past Skip Agonizing

Author:Peace Pilgrim

“They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.”

Thinking Helping Too Much Generations Greatness Skip

Author:Nick Simmons

“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.”

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Book:Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords

Source: Critical Models: Interventions and Catchwords

“I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it. I love the parts I love so much, but I find a lot of it just appalling. When a right-wing person quotes a passage in order to attack and stigmatize another person--or group of people--I just roll my eyes.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.”

Life School Life Is Behinds Grades Graduates Life Is Like Skip

Book:The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

Source: The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure

“Aside from a couple of signature flourishes, there's nothing to mark Paycheck as the product of acclaimed action director John Woo. In fact, there's little about this movie that makes it worth anyone's time and money. With a script that waffles between being hilariously absurd and insultingly stupid, and action scenes that won't cause anyone's pulse to skip a beat, Paycheck is less appealing than a lump of coal in a Christmas stocking.”

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Author:James Berardinelli

“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.'”

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Author:Joe Torre

“When I was taking art history I was always angry that we would skip certain chapters because "it wasn't important." Like, "Let's skip over the Japanese. Let's just get to Giotto, because that's where everything begins." It's like, no. Everything is relevant to me.”

Art Important Certain Angry Relevant Chapters Skip Art History Giotto

Author:Ali Banisadr

“Managers can waste a lot of time at the outset of a crisis denying that something went wrong. Skip that step.”

Steps Waste Crisis Managers Skip

Author:Jack Welch

“The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.”

May Art Whole Culture Reading Results Modern Library These Days Skip Modern Culture

Book:The Intellectual Life

Source: The Intellectual Life

“It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.”

Way Want Feels May Facts Reader Discipline Excellent Skip Brevity

Book:A Joy Forever

Source: A Joy Forever

“A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.”

Men Doe Reading Productions Skip Fleas

Author:Samuel Rogers

“The problem for cookery-bookery writers like me is to understand the extent of our readers' experience. I hope have solved that riddle in my books by simply telling everything. The experienced cook will know to skip through the verbiage, but the explanations will be there for those who still need them.”

Knows Needs Stills Book Problem Reader Cooking Like Me Cooks Explanation Riddle Skip Cookery

Author:Julia Child

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

Writing Book Lost Reader Labor Tire Skip

Book:Ladies' Magazine

Source: Ladies' Magazine

“A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.”

Feels Dog Exercise Machines Fitness Skip

Author:Carolyn Heilbrun

“Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.”

Wells Moments Actors Childhood Ships Skip Lollipop

Author:Joan Crawford

“Ive been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder.”

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Author:Neal Asher

“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.”

Years Firsts Children Hard Attention Adults Ever After Skip

Book:House of Blues

Source: House of Blues

“I don't trust compliments. I've been getting them for years. Sometimes I deserve them, sometimes I didn't. But generally when people give you compliments there's one of two things wrong with them. Either they're false, or what's worse is they're sincere. They really mean the compliment. And then they're offering you their loyalty. And I'm kind of a stingy... Well, I don't necessarily want to give all that loyalty back. So either way, let's skip the compliments.”

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Author:Norman Mailer

“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.”

Important Walks Exercise Coffee Gym Stairs Skip Errands

Author:Daphne Oz

“In my teen years leading up to the Olympics, I loved having the excuse to skip out on parties because of skating. Partying wasnt my thing anyway. Mostly I hung out with other skaters. We were all buddies, so its not like I missed out on socializing. I was really enjoying myself.”

Years Enjoy Party Excuse Hung Olympics Buddy Skating Skip Socializing Skater

Author:Dorothy Hamill

“I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.”

Years Persons Stills Sides Rooms Stage Goes On Directors Ten Lunch Auditions Casting Skip Best Person Casting Directors

Author:Carly Schroeder

“The discipline of practice every day is essential. When I skip a day, I notice a difference in my playing. After two days, the critics notice, and after three days, so does the audience.”

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Author:Jascha Heifetz

“Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you want, you can connect to that lecture. The other is this interactivity, where if you know a topic, you can kind of skip over it. Or if you're confused about it, [the area] where you're confused can be analyzed by software.”

Ifs Knows World Want Kind Two Reason Special Areas Confused Online Over It Software Topics Lectures Skip Wherever You Are

Author:Bill Gates

“Much of life is a game. If played skillfully, with an intelligent and fascinating opponent, it can become almost a dance. One challenges and moves, the other teases and skips away, only to dart forward later and strike a telling blow.”

Ifs Moving Life Is Games Challenges Intelligent Blow Strikes Opponents Fascinating Tease Skip Life Is A Game

Book:The Ice Princess

Source: The Ice Princess

“Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet.”

Lord Feet Sweet Crowds Bees Skip Larks Giddy Clovers Grasshoppers Hang Over

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

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

Ifs School Tonight Rope Skip School Days

Author:Jackie Kennedy

“What a hell of an economic system! Some are replete with everything while others, whose stomachs are no less demanding, whose hunger is just as recurrent, have nothing to bite on. The worst of it is the constrained posture need puts you in. The needy man does not walk like the rest; he skips, slithers, twists, crawls.”

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Author:Denis Diderot

“As all entrepreneurs know, you live and die by your ability to prioritize. You must focus on the most important, mission-critical tasks each day and night, and then share, delegate, delay or skip the rest.”

Knows Important Night Dies Ability Focus Share Tasks Entrepreneur Missions Critical Each Day Delay Day And Night Skip Prioritize Delegates Delegation

Author:Jessica Jackley

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