Life is like a
Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind. Elizabeth Lesser
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Much of life is
Much of life is a game. If played skillfully, with an intelligent and fascinating opponent, it can become almost a dance. One challenges and moves, the other teases and skips away, only to dart forward later and strike a telling blow. Elizabeth Hoyt
On the one hand,
On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse … Read more
I never read prefaces,
I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this. E. Nesbit
If you are not
If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don’t vibrate quickly. Frederick Lenz
I inherited the knowledge
I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that helped feed my love of laughter. Fred Astaire
I\’d skip school regularly
I’d skip school regularly to see movies – even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early. Francois Truffaut
If everything is made
If everything is made so obvious that it asks nothing of the readers, then after a while, their ability to respond is atrophied. And they grow up as young people unable to take anything from a printed page, or they become bored because they haven’t discovered the nuances, the differences of opinion, the differences of … Read more
This unlikely story begins
This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children’s eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea–if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip … Read more
Grown up, and that
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. F. Scott Fitzgerald