Skippys Quotes & Sayings

The greatest reverence is due to a child! If you are contemplating a disgraceful act, despise not your child's tender years. — Juvenal

That was interesting."
"He deliberately countermanded one of my orders."
"He was furtive."
"Sneaky, even."
"We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet."
Tycho & Wedge (about Jag) — Aaron Allston

I think multicamera comedy is a much-maligned American art form. — Alan Ruck

I am not an artist, and I never intended to be one. I hope I have made some good photographs, but what I really hope is that I have done some good photo stories with memorable images that make a point, and, perhaps, even make a difference. — Cornell Capa

In my room as a kid ... I'd play a fighter and get knocked to the floor and come back to win. — Dustin Hoffman

I've been thinking, Jules said
Never a good thing I thought — Kasie West

All happiness is in the mind. — Yogi Bhajan

Our pasts haunt us all.
I regaled my beautiful audience of one with the tale of my life, not so much for entertainment, but for bold, barefaced, honest truth. — Ross Turner

Jim Grimsley's unflinching self-examination of his own boyhood racial prejudices during the era of school desegregation is one of the most compelling memoirs of recent years. Vivid, precise, and utterly honest, How I Shed My Skin is a time-machine of sorts, a reminder that our past is every bit as complex as our present, and that broad cultural changes are often intimate, personal, and idiosyncratic. — Dinty W. Moore

Being a drummer, I'm always like, 'Oh, that's got a funky beat. That's cool,' and I like to dance. — Tommy Lee

But that's what nonfiction is, people. Shitty feelings and encounters with death. — Mark Leyner

No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about. — Khaled Hosseini

Trees are much like human beings and enjoy each other's company. Only a few love to be alone. — Jens Jensen

I will close my eyes and leap. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Hence the vogue for double majors. It isn't enough anymore to take a bunch of electives in addition to your primary focus, to roam freely across the academic fields, making serendipitous connections and discoveries, the way that American higher education was designed (uniquely, among the world's systems) to allow you to do. — William Deresiewicz