#kip

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

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart; 'till the Devil wispered from behind the leaves "it's pretty, but is it art? ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#what-is-art #art

I don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#beauty

The lady was old, the lady was ill. It didn't matter what the lady believed. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#beauty

Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my hands on, but the memory that stays with me is that of my father reading the Jungle Books to us when we were young. Beautiful stories! ↗

— A.B. Guthrie

#childhood-memory #childhood-stories #dickens #interview-transcription #kipling

I'm under stress. They killed me on wikipedia. They killed me. And I didn't stay dead long enough to sell no DVDs. I didn't even stay dead long enough - I was too stupid. I should've stayed low. I should've laid low. I could've been gone for a year; I'd have made money. And then I'd have risen from the dead. ↗

— Sinbad

#could #dead #dvds #enough #even