Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
John Ruskin
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These kids are my brothers. I've spent four years killing myself -- we all have -- to get this Ivy League title. It's not something I can skip.
Nick Hartigan
The game is over in Boston, skip.
Tino Martinez
If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.
Hulk Hogan
At all times you have to be ready. You can't skip a beat. At anytime during the game I have to be ready to back up (Walter Jones) or (Womack).
Sean Locklear
I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.
George Clinton
Skip the tie and jacket. The costumes make it authentic. Both Matthews are doing a terrific job. It's impressive. They're capturing the essence of the moment.
Jack Lengyel
They are the only team I've seen out there that can outscore you and stop you [equally well]. They've really dominated ground balls. They've owned the middle of the field. They throw the hardest skip pass in lacrosse.
Dave Cottle
Most things that people give us we're never really happy with, so most of the time we do everything ourselves anyway. We just kind of skip the middleman and do it ourselves.
Josh Wills
Get a great accountant or [take a] community college course and learn software programs like Quicken to keep your books, ... You skip this aspect of the business, and you'll be very sorry.
Laurie Rozakis
I just say skip the middle person. I'm the one that's going to make the change.
Linda Hollingsworth
Bruce being gone out of this game was a good thing for me because I got to skip a Challenge, and pretty much every Immunity Challenge coming down the road, I've got to take. It is really imperative to try to make some allies and hopefully tie up one or two members before the next Immunity Challenge.
Terry Dietz
This has a binding agent in it so it will help adhere to cabinet surface. A lot of people want to skip this process and go to the painting. The key here is you won't this coat of primer to be very, very thin. You want to be able to see through it.
Teresa Follmer
It was really exciting. I'm excited. I'm glad I could do it with this team. I've been with these guys for four years now and it's a great feeling. (The key was) My teammates throwing the skip passes to me when I was open.
Tyler Cook
As much angst as Phil undoubtedly shouldered, he protected us from that. And you could always tell (when) Phil liked what you did, because he'd sort of skip over to you and cheer you on.
Celia Weston
Both Skip Ging and Cody Probst had good nights and were probably our players of the game.
Dave Moran
If I don't understand something, like, say for example make a roux, I just skip it. I go on to the next step and then wonder why my recipe didn't turn out like the picture.
Cheri Mitchell
If they want to put Christ back in Christmas, they should skip the mall and give that money to the poor.
Bill Leonard
The thing that worked best was the thing I hated the most, keeping a diary. I absolutely loathed it. I didn't want to report that I ate a donut, so I didn't eat the donut. It was a way to make me skip things I should have skipped anyway.
Jerry Rhodes
We believe it will reduce the number of birds that are seen on other lakes in the vicinity of Leech Lake. When they are harassed at one site, they can pick up and move considerable distances. And Lake Winnie is just a hop, skip and jump away from Leech Lake.
Lee Pfannmuller
These folks are misusing it. They're trying to skip out on their tax bills.
Kevin Mckeon
The only thing that bothered him a little bit is when they had him skip, just to put all the weight on it. That didn't go as well as he was hoping, but everything else was right up to par. ... As he said, 'When am I ever going to skip on the baseball field?' .
Brad Arnsberg
It's not a giant thing, like graduation, Mardi Gras, Halloween or New Year's. We do get business from it. That's why we put stuff out; we don't skip it. It's our big thing for March.
Suzanne Smith
Hats off to them. We are lucky to get out of here with a win. They (Riverdale) earned my respect. Mainly, I am very disappointed in our rebounding effort tonight. Plus, we let their zone get to us in the fourth quarter, throwing the ball away on long skip passes. There's no excuse for that.
Phil Loy
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.
Elmore Leonard
I would think the networks would look to partner and encourage experimentation with techniques that involve the viewer and discourage them to skip the commercials.
Jamie King
She's taken a liking to the 6 ½ down the hill and we're all set to go, weather permitting. She ran on a sloppy or muddy track on a couple of occasions and (has) not given very good efforts. We would probably choose to skip the race on any kind of an 'off' track at all.
Mark Glatt
If there's a Lew Wasserman now in Hollywood, I think it's Skip.
Harvey Weinstein
Is there anybody here who can negotiate a movie deal? ... This kid walked up to me and said, 'I can do it for you. I'm Skip Brittenham.'
Larry Cohen
I've been lucky these days to have my brother Skip come up and run the company while I do the hard part, which is the fishing.
Bob Carnes
I'm aware that a match against Ireland doesn't have the appeal of one against Brazil. But if we want to play Brazil again we first have to beat Ireland. We can't skip steps.
Mikael Silvestre
I was at that World Cup, coaching the Netherlands, and I heard somebody yelling, 'Skip, Skip, Skip!' at me in a thick accent. It was this big Russian kid named Igor who was in the Dodgers camp for a while. He didn't make it, but he could pound the ball pretty good.
Davey Johnson
He has rubbed shoulders with firemen from the hydrant-man right up to the ranks. To me, I think it's very unfair for them to skip over him to bring somebody in who knows absolutely nothing about the city of Raleigh.
Welton Jones
It makes no sense to skip a whole year of students just because we couldn't act quickly enough.
Jim Mcbride
Consumers will just skip lunch. We would call it a meal in a cup.
Robert Carter
The novel can be read simply as a story which you can skip if you want. It can be read as a story you will get more out of if you don't skip.
Malcolm Lowry
Don't skip your meals and drink plenty of fluids.
Janice Nunn
[His interest in hazardous overseas assignments can be traced back to a childhood fascination.] I was in fifth grade during the Gulf War in 1991, ... I remember drawing a map of the Middle East and watching CNN nightly with my dad. One day, I even asked my teacher if I could skip gym class to hear a speech by General Norman Schwarzkopf.
Michael Hastings
A lot of girls don't love to run, and that's OK. They can skip, hop, jump, dance or do cartwheels. The goal simply is to keep moving.
Julia Stanley
Skip Wilson is a Temple and a Philadelphia collegiate baseball institution, ... His legacy will not only be measured in terms of victories and championships, but in the number of lives he has positively affected.
Bill Bradshaw
I don't know if I can go in there for this, because the idea of having you think to yourself, 'Oh God, how do I tell her this isn't right for her?' is more painful than me just not getting the part. I'd almost rather just skip the process.
Michael Foley
I was just trying to get something up and into the outfield. Skip is fast enough that he can challenge (the throw) if it gets out there. I was just happy to get that hit.
John Rodriguez
I usually skip breakfast, and if I'm worried about my weight I'll skip lunch or dinner. We get to eat after weigh-ins, and I've always felt ready to go on the mat.
James Lloyd
It is not FDA approved to skip periods on the ring, ... but this study and other studies using the oral contraceptive are finding that for many women this might be an option.
Leslie Miller
Mass TV audiences are quickly becoming a rarity, so events like the Super Bowl will always be important for advertisers. Live TV seems to be the new prime time, with DVR users far less likely to skip ads and record programs for later viewing.
Ben Macklin
She ran two major marathons this year, and decided to skip this fall, ... We made sure she knows we want her back next year.
Mary Wittenberg
Skip to my Lou.
Rafer Alston
The easiest way to count to 100 is to go by 10s. I go to 10, skip it, then skip 20, then skip 30, and I can get to 100.
Trevor Grant
We'll see how she handles the pain. It's day-to-day, but we hope she can race all three events here in Norway. If there's more pain, she could skip next weekend's races in Finland and prepare for the World Cup finals in Sweden.
Anders Paerson
Natalie played big for us tonight. She took the ball hard to the basket and finished strong on every shot. She also made a couple of great skip passes that led to some outside shots for us.
Jon Newlee
As long as you know what the government's trying to do - what you're protesting against - I'm all for it. But you see on the news: The high school and even the middle school kids just skip school.
Chris Garcia
It's an irony and a hypocrisy. They can even go to jail if they skip classes, and then after? We are not capturing all of these talents that could be their future, kids who could give back to the community what they have received.
Luz Corcuera
It's good for the county because it was probably headed to the Supreme Court anyway. This way we skip a step.
Brad Norton
It is like our house and car maintenance. You can skip it for a while, but eventually you've got to pay.
Jonathan Boyd
It's all about balance. The middle school and high school students are the ones that most often skip breakfast. They just need to eat regularly. I'll get students sent to me in the morning because they have a stomach or a headache and it's because they didn't eat breakfast.
Linda Clegg
I was very pleased with our bench play in the second quarter. I mean, we didn't skip a beat.
Jim Crosbie
Nothing in the bankruptcy code requires companies to skip their pension funding payments.
Bradley Belt
So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'
Tommy Cooper
Media reports that the technology is aimed at blocking people from skipping advertising is just half of the truth. It could go either way. You could use it to skip ads or to have people stick to the advertising.
Andre Manning
We learned how important it is to eat breakfast. We make better choices if we don't skip breakfast.
Lael Dandan
Most entrepreneurs skip market research because they're action-oriented.
Tom O'connell
Out of the $1.4 billion in labor cost savings target, the company let this opportunity skip away over $10 million (severance costs), clearly reflecting the fact that the issue is not money but the company is intent on driving this work group into the ground and keeping the heel of its boot on each of our throats.
Jeff Mathews
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
Skip is one of my mentors. I get a lot of my ideas from other teachers, so I have lots of teachers to thank. The thing about teaching is, I constantly get to learn.
Jeffrey Wright
For some reason, I just couldn't find my knees. The performance itself, if you skip the jumps, was good.
Craig Buntin
Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.
Knute Rockne
Lots of acts are simply loyal to a venue. But they also need to play the market. They're not going to skip a market because a favorite venue is not available to them.
Dave Littrell
It's an issue of how you treat your employees and make your plans. We're not going to skip any tournaments. It makes me mad, but I'm not going to have the kids suffer for it.
Janet Hansen
I try to leave out the parts that people skip.
Elmore Leonard
We made the change to man-to-man because they kept hitting the (3-pointers) from outside and we had to do something. We weren't rotating the zone and on the skip pass we kept getting beat. We had to go to man so we could get closer to the shooters.
Eli Juarez
When women diet they often make two big mistakes that can actually result in weight gain -- skip breakfast and ditch dairy. But in reality, eating breakfast and including 24 ounces of milk each day are two small steps that could make a significant difference in achieving a healthy weight.
Elizabeth Somer
I can't kid myself. I'm looking forward to the Big East and to LSU. But we have to stay focused. We can't skip a team we're playing. We just have to go game by game, prepare ourselves and be ready.
Fred Nelson
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