(86 quotes found)
“Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.”
E. B. White
“So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'”
Tommy Cooper
“Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.”
Knute Rockne
“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.”
Jacques Barzun
“He maketh them also to skip like a calf; Lebanon and Sirion like a young unicorn.”
Bible
“Skipping -- at least without a rope -- is a little on the baby side, Carol, ... But you can if you want. We don't mind, do we, S-J?”
Bobby Darin
“I always thought we shouldn't have been in 4A in the first place. In '99, we skipped from 2A to 4A. We struggled in 4A for a while. I feel like now we are right where we belong.”
Charles Rosser
“It's hard to make that jump to D-I, and we still did it without skipping too much of a beat.”
Brendan Barlow
“The only thing that bothered him a little bit is when they had him skip, just to put all the weight on it. That didn't go as well as he was hoping, but everything else was right up to par. ... As he said, 'When am I ever going to skip on the baseball field?' ”
Brad Arnsberg
“Americans are paying huge prices at the pump and record high heating bills, but oil and gas companies are skipping out on paying the bill they owe the American taxpayer. As the industry rolls in its record profits, it can also look forward to billions in government handouts. They have American taxpayers over a barrel.”
Carolyn Maloney
