Skiles Quotes & Sayings

I know I don't fit in in L.A. because I look my age. — Tamsin Greig

Since Dreygon likes to run this place like a medieval king, I would suggest a duel with pistols at dawn. But after the way you handled that gun yesterday, I wouldn't have a chance."
"I guess not."
"How are you with swords?" Jericho said.
I laughed. "Not sure. But for that girl, I think I'd fight with flaming chainsaws if that's what it took. — Tess Oliver

I don't know how satisfied you can be when we still have a losing record. We feel like we're definitely playing better. The reality is we're about to find out. Our toughest West Coast trip is normally the circus trip in November. This year, they're flip-flopped. We did well on the first West Coast trip 3-3. Now, this is a big one. All these teams Dallas, New Orleans, Phoenix, Utah, Denver, Sacramento and the Los Angeles Clippers are quality teams. Each team is really playing well. It's going to be a big challenge for us. — Scott Skiles

Suppose a surgeon and an anesthesiologist could not communicate with each other except through a hospital administrator about a patient on an operating table, he said. "Instead of [an] exchange of information [among] people who are attempting to accomplish a result . . . , we have made it virtually impossible." Olson went on, "In order to connect the dots someone has got to have knowledge of those various different dots. — John Yoo

Please don't follow in my footsteps. I'm already knee-deep in them, and am sinking rapidly... — Tony James Slater

The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind. — Karl Pearson

Coach Skiles is tough. He's been my only coach in the NBA, so I'm used to it. His rules are a little different at times. At the end of the day, he just wants you to play hard defense, and you can't fault him for that. — Brandon Jennings

Basketball is like Religion. Many attend but few understand. — Scott Skiles

...nothing in the world is solid or real, because nothing is permanent, and all things---including trees and animals and pebbles and mountains and rivers and me and you---are just flowing through for the time being. — Ruth Ozeki

Afraid was good, he thought. Change requires fear, he knew this too. — Lisa Moore

I'm proud to have so many great friends at country radio who believe in what I do - thanks to all of them. — Joe Nichols

I've been been rich
I've been poor
Rich is better
I've been young
I've been old
Young is better — Cher

You don't have to be brilliant, only a little bit wiser than the other guys, on average, for a long, long, time. — Charlie Munger

When I first go out on stage, there are tummy bubbles everywhere. — Toni Braxton

So people only focus on getting the really deep sleep, but in reality, we spend almost 60% of the night in the stage two sleep. — Shelby Harris

His hand trailed down the side of her face, brushing back spiraling tendrils of hair. Come, shei'tani, dance the skiles with your mate. — C.L. Wilson

You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology. — David Suzuki