#skip

A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest himself in the characters and is concerned to see how they act in given circumstances, and what happens to them; he sympathizes with their troubles and is gladdened by their joys; he puts himself in their place and, to an extent, lives their lives. Their view of life, their attitude to the great subjects of human speculation, whether stated in words or shown in action, call forth in him a reaction of surprise, of pleasure or of indignation. But he knows instinctively where his interest lies and he follows it as surely as a hound follows the scent of a fox. Sometimes, through the author's failure, he loses the scent. Then he flounders about till he finds it again. He skips. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#entertainment #reading #skipping #attitude

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. ↗

— Hal Borland

#lasts #skips #spring #turn #winter

If you are looking for smart judging based on merit, skip the Academy Awards next year and pay attention to the Independent Spirit Awards. ↗

— Annie Proulx

#academy awards #attention #awards #based #independent

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#always #beat #before #heart #intimate

Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience. ↗

— Regina Spektor

#city #experience #giant #going #i

It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#act #am #anything #begin #beginning

A viewer who skips the advertising is the moral equivalent of a shoplifter. ↗

— Nicholas Johnson

#equivalent #moral #skips #viewer #who

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#big #black #called #god #guy

I sometimes skip meals when I travel. ↗

— Amy Smart

#meals #skip #sometimes #travel

I do remember, though, when I discovered the third! I was about five years old - it was a very pleasing sound. I remembered that if I hit one note, then skipped one and played the next, I could get this really good sound. ↗

— Robert Morris

#could #discovered #five #get #good