Skims Reviews Quotes & Sayings

It never occurred to me that I had brought him here not just to show him my little world, but to ask my little world to let him in, so that the place where I came to be alone on summer afternoons would get to know him, judge him, see if he fitted in, take him in, so that I might come back here and remember. Here I would come to escape the known world and seek another of my own invention; I was basically introducing him to my launchpad. — Andre Aciman

Does fuzzy logic tickle? — Steven Wright

'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 1960s bundled up nicely to convince consumers that the sort of morally repugnant behavior exhibited by its characters - with one-night-stands and excessive consumption of Cutty Sark and Lucky Strikes - is glamorous and 'vintage.' — George Lois

You become great aligning yourself to what is great. The reverse is also true. — Marshall Vian Summers

Prepare while it's easy. — Laozi

She still loved the man who called himself Malakai Wentforth. She knew that. But that didn't matter, just as it hadn't mattered four years ago. Then, she'd chosen to stay behind. But it didn't mean she wasn't curious. It didn't mean she didn't want to stand at the edge of the cliffs and stretch her face out toward the sea, toward a world she'd never be allowed to know. — Diana Peterfreund

But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God. — Evelyn Underhill

A Bawse knows that if you want to be taken seriously, you need to show people who you are, and then keep showing them. — Lilly Singh

These aren't like logging roads to get those blades in there. They're greater than 40 feet in width, almost like a superhighway. — Jim Michaels

The old man pushed into his cane and heaved himself up. "Why do you waste your time, Meghan, running through the folds of it? — Erin Cole

How about we meet at midnight tomorrow and try this. I close my eyes, believe in you, and there you'll be. — Jaclyn Moriarty

You're seventeen," Magnus said. "You can't have wasted a life you've barely lived. — Cassandra Clare

People are dupes, and wicked too. That is what makes it interesting to get them better. — T.H. White