I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story.
Quotes about skimming (16 Quotes)
Many of our tribe went to the cliff each night to count the number killed during the day. They counted the dead otter and thought of the beads and other things that each pelt meant. But I never went to the cove and whenever I saw the hunters with their long spears skimming over the water, I was angry, for these animals were my friends. It was fun to see them playing or sunning themselves among the kelp. It more fun than the thought of beads to wear around my neck.
On these occasions I read quickly, voraciously, almost skimming, trying to get as much into my head as possible before the next long starvation. If it were eating it would be gluttony of the famished; if it were sex it would be a swift furtive stand-up in an alley somewhere.
Little Montenegro! He lifted up the words and nodded at them-with his smile. The smile comprehended Montenegro's troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people. It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances, which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro's warm little heart. My incredulity was submerged in fascination now; it was like skimming hastily through a dozen magazines.
We are definitely expected to win but we had to do it the way we did it. The way we did it was the thing everybody was happy about. It was not just skimming a victory out of a shootout or something like that. This was a good effort and it's been a while since we had one like that.
General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.
I've heard it a hundred times. What you have is sometimes somebody will look and say, 'Wait a minute, I can do a little skimming here, and no one will know it.'
When my mother died, I was 17 years old, and I literally got on a plane and flew to America, and didn't really come back. I have been back to Ireland in short spurts, just skimming the surface of my formative years.
Insurance companies stand to make enormous profits, but they'll do that by skimming off the most insurable individuals,
With the legs that extend on it, he has an 18-foot reach, and it also can go six-feet down, so we started skimming the water, skimming the ground, then eventually we're down to four to five feet.
This event is a much more visceral experience than just skimming a book or reading something online. I think that's the main value of an event like this.
They're more than willing to comply. We've had a couple private helicopter jockeys skimming the water and they give everyone a bad (name).
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
In some instances, companies are still just skimming the cream off of the early adopters and migrating into the masses.
While we are sure that some people will be disappointed not to see the furniture races, we think that pond skimming will be an equally hilarious event.
The technique is like water skiing. You want to be at a pretty good speed, otherwise it's pond swimming rather than skimming.