Skipping Rocks Quotes

Thinking about something is like picking up a stone when taking a walk, either while skipping rocks on the beach, for example, or looking for a way to shatter the glass doors of a museum. When you think about something, it adds a bit of weight to your walk, and as you think about more and more things you are liable to feel heavier and heavier, until you are so burdened you cannot take any further steps, and can only sit and stare at the gentle movements of the ocean waves or security guards, thinking too hard bout too many things to do anything else. ~ Lemony Snicket

pulled into a dark tunnel. I found myself hurtling down an almost vertical dirt path, skipping over rocks and dirt patches like Indiana Jones until I hit bottom with a thud. Six years as a private investigator and I'd never fallen down a tree before. I caught my breath, got to my feet and dusted myself off. Good thing I never dress up for work. My old jeans and boots were none the worse for wear. I was wondering how I'd get back up to the surface when I noticed the flicker of golden sconces on ~ Linsey Lanier

The following spring was a time of calving. Great icebergs calved from the vast glaciers which stretched down to our fjords from distant mountains. The heifers and cows of Kaupangen gave birth to over one hundred calves that spring. Most survived. Gudrod, the master shepherd, had seventy-five new lambkins skipping after their mothers. Ten sets of lamb twins were born in the city that year. Bitches had pups suckling at their breasts. The mountain goats that stood watch over the fjord, indifferently chewing on the wild grasses between the rocks, had kids following them on their steep paths. The residents of the city, too, gave birth. Twenty-one new healthy babies were born within thirty days of the spring equinox; boys and girls with thick blonde, brown, black, or red hair; others with smooth bald heads. Olaf, my third father, my king, had a son, stillborn. Olaf wept. Kenna wept. I wept as the boy was buried inside the casket with his mother in our graveyard by the church. ~ Jason Born

And yet we couldn't leave
it was if the rocks were holding us there. I mean, they were only rocks. But for some reason, those rocks made lonely feel good. ~ Cynthia Kadohata

Maybe she thought the garbage and rocks in your head were interesting. But finally, garbage is garbage and rocks are rocks. ~ Haruki Murakami

I'd start to sing, and the record would start skipping. You'd be skipping along with it. Those were the days, my friend. We'd look so stupid, but the kids loved it. ~ Wilson Pickett

The basket looked like an ocean, and I was just throwing rocks in. ~ Allen Iverson

You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable. ~ David Talbot

Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub; if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two. ~ Peter Lynch

Not that kind of cheating," Mags said. "More like ... skipping ahead. If you like someone, you should have to make an effort. You should have to get to know the person
you should have to work for that first kiss. ~ Rainbow Rowell

Clarice scrawled, 'A question from when I was a little girl that I can answer only now: are rocks made, or are they born? Answer: rocks are. ~ Benjamin Moser

Rocks for Brains
The more rocks a man has for a brain,
the more rocks they'll throw when you complain. ~ Beryl Dov

The rocks were really big around the mountains and at times some rocks seemed as if they had been sculpted by some unknown artist. ~ Avijeet Das

I trust you. It's a very strange sensation."
"Yeah, well, I'll try to hold myself back from going skipping across the plateau in joy."
Adolin grinned. "I'd pay to see that."
"Me skipping?"
"You happy," Adolin said, laughing. "You've got a face like a storm! I half think you could frighten off a storm. ~ Brandon Sanderson

I used to ask my brother Rudy to throw rocks at me. I'd dodge every one. That's how I learned how to bob and weave: ducking rocks. ~ Muhammad Ali

Out there on the rocks, I feel exceedingly happy. ~ Naomi Uemura

I have to get inspired by something that touches my soul, or rocks my soul. ~ Steven Tyler

Oh yeah, the preacher's kid has to be the baddest one. If everyone is smoking weed, we've got to smoke crack. If you're throwing rocks, we've got to throw bigger rocks ~ Nick Cannon

If you need somebody to dig up rocks eight hours a day underwater, call me. ~ Leigh Newman

Nothing is what rocks dream about ~ Aristotle.

There are three gems upon this earth; food, water, and pleasing words - fools (mudhas) consider pieces of rocks as gems. ~ Chanakya

Roselynn appraised Shane as she would an interesting rock, saying nothing. However, Roselynn was the sort much enamored of rocks. ~ Thomm Quackenbush

Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life. ~ Edward Weston

Love on the rocks, ain't no surprise. Pour me a drink and I'll tell you some lies. ~ Neil Diamond

But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend. ~ Marilyn Monroe

That whole thing has been overstated by environmentalists. First of all, what is it, rocks and snow? C'mon, what is that, you want that? Go to Canada my friend. Believe me, rocks and snow are overrated. I've seen otters - they look better covered in oil. ~ Jon Stewart

I do like a little romance ... just a sniff, as I call it, of the rocks and valleys. Of course, bread-and-cheese is the real thing. The rocks and valleys are no good at all, if you haven't got that. ~ Anthony Trollope

Only a thin steel ring that cut the rocks in half. The rocks went on into the depth, unchanged. They began ~ Ayn Rand

Yet another spunky li'l NASA robot lands and begins transmitting back photographs of rocks that appear virtually identical to the rock photos beamed back by all the other spunky li'l NASA robots, thus confirming suspicions that the universe has a LOT of rocks in it. ~ Dave Barry

Consummate talent and relentless passion - The Truth ain't pretty ... but it rocks like crazy! ~ Billy Squier

I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks. ~ Herbert Harold Read

What am I drinking? NyQuil on the rocks, for when you're feeling sick but sociable. ~ Mitch Hedberg

I was bangin' 7 gram rocks and finishing them because that's how I roll ~ Charlie Sheen

People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them. ~ Cyndi Lauper

the important question is not whether all rocks are alive but whether specific humans relate appropriately (respectfully) with specific rocks ~ Linda Hogan

Call on God, but row away from the rocks. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

I ain't guilty cause, even though I sell rocks
Yo sound the bells school is in sucker ~ MC Hammer

There are a lot of human beings out there who are very hostile towards anything that rocks their perceptual boat. ~ Frederick Lenz

Getting people to fight by letting the force of momentum work is like rolling logs and rocks. Logs and rocks are still when in a secure place, but roll on an incline; they remain stationary if square, they roll if round. Therefore, when people are skillfully led into battle, the momentum is like that of round rocks rolling down a high mountain
this is force. ~ Sun Tzu

This [Twilight] cast rocks! We get along so well together it's like a real family which is great to see. ~ Kellan Lutz

You'd think he'd ran out off rocks," I muttered ~ Rick Riordan

I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley. ~ George Clinton

Unfortunately, we haven't found many very old rocks on Earth because our planet's surface is constantly renewed by plate tectonics, coupled with erosion. ~ Robert Duncan

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. ~ Neil Armstrong

Life is change, how it differs from the rocks. ~ Paul Kantner

T is liberty crowns Britannia's Isle,
And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile. ~ Joseph Addison

If the big rocks don't go in first, they aren't going to fit in later. ~ Stephen Covey

Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers. ~ John Steinbeck

My marriage is on the rocks again, yeah, my wife just broke up with her boyfriend. ~ Rodney Dangerfield

You don't throw rocks at a man with a machine gun! ~ Roddy Piper

Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas. ~ T. S. Eliot

Then sculpture and her sister arts revived; stones leaped to form, and rocks began to live. ~ Alexander Pope

'My Family Recipe Rocks' is on the Live Well Network, and we go to people's homes and watch them cook. ~ Joey Fatone

Women and God are the two rocks on which a man must either anchor or be wrecked. ~ Frederick William Robertson

With the softest hand, you can shape the hardest rocks! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our way is not soft grass; it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun. ~ Ruth Westheimer

The rocks will melt with the sun before tuition fees are introduced in Scotland. ~ Alex Salmond

I'm the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they're going to throw rocks at me, they're going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished. ~ George Lucas

You take a handful of rocks and put them in a jar. Then once a week, you take one tiny pebble out of the jar and throw it away. When the jar is empty, why, you'll just about be over your grief ... Time alone will do if you're short on rocks. ~ Sharyn McCrumb

With love, even the rocks will open. ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

If you read only one memoir by a disaffected, urban, 20-something Jewish girl this year, make it this one. Shukert rocks the lulav. ~ Gary Shteyngart

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance. ~ Petrarch

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks. ~ Gustav Mahler

He made love to Porcupine Woman and got his dick shot through with more needles than a pincushion. He'd argue with rocks and the rocks would win. ~ Neil Gaiman

When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles!.. ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. ~ Plutarch

Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield. ~ Criss Jami

Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist. ~ Edward Abbey

Let my armies be the rocks, and the trees, and the birds in the sky. ~ Charlemagne

I saw doves and I thought they were rocks, but they were asleep. My breath made them stir, and they rocks took flight, the earth exploding ... and my only thought was that I wanted you to see them, too. ~ Douglas Coupland

Some exfoliates have rocks in them and it makes your skin really smooth, and cat litter is a good substitute. I haven't broke out at all yet! ~ Nicole Polizzi

All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next
who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead. ~ Sophocles

Anyone who says rock 'n' roll is a passing fad or a flash-in-the-pan trend along the music road has rocks in the head. ~ Alan Freed

That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality. ~ Stewart Copeland

I was banging seven-gram rocks, because that's how I roll. I have one speed, I have one gear: Go. ~ Charlie Sheen

E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume. ~ Joseph Addison

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts. ~ John Muir

Esme skips on ahead. Jumping from one foot to the other, as if she can see markings on the ground he can't. She is constantly jumping and skipping and twirling with the lightness of falling snow, looking up at him bright with questions, tugging on his hand, dashing off with all the speed her body is capable of and then skipping on the spot up ahead as if consecrating it for his arrival. It is so easy to make her happy that it seems like cheating at times. ~ Glenn Haybittle

From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all. ~ Judy Grahn

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood. ~ Heinrich Heine

Young bones groan And the rocks below say, "Throw your white body down!" But I'm going to meet the one I love At last ~ Steven Morrissey

I collect rocks from all over the world. I have a ring of stones that date to 3500 B.C. It's like a little Stonehenge. ~ Robert Wilson

Wake up,' a voice like water rippling over rocks whispered in my ear. ~ Kiersten White

It turned out that he was a specialist in paleontology and had spent a lot of time studying rocks. He tried to claim that his expertise at examining rocks made him able to identify people. Under cross-examination, all his carefully constructed "expertise" turned into a pile of rocks, and this new technical breakthrough in crime fighting proved to be nothing but a fraud. ~ Assata Shakur

I like to go beach-combing, and I like to find interestingly shaped rocks. When I really get into the groove I start finding beautiful rocks everywhere, until I discover that all of the rocks on the beach are beautiful. And so I try to find beauty even in the smallest moments, because beauty is something that can grow if you let it. ~ Douglas Coupland

Christians and non-Christian voters alike have become far too comfortable slinging rocks at the expense of making any real political or social progress. ~ Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

Of course, no rocks in Los Angeles. You had to buy fucking rocks. Sick place, this, where you couldn't find a rock to break a window. ~ C.D. Reiss

Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat. ~ Wilma Scott Heide

Never Land
She rocks herself to sleep,
rocks herself awake, rocks
until she is one with a sky
deep as midnight.
The ground is not hers-
never was-and the only
light, the only light there is,
hums a high song
from the backside of stars.
Here in the dark, yes, here
is the cradle. ~ Jenny Hubbard

What if in skipping the pain, I was missing my lessons? ~ Glennon Doyle Melton

Ideas make their way in silence like the waters that, altering behind the rocks of the Alps, loosen then from the mountains upon which they rest. ~ Jean-Henri Merle D'Aubigne

Maybe that's just what moving on is, not getting over, but skipping over. ~ Matthew Norman

Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains? ~ Jane Austen

God, would they call his name at attendance? Would that be worse than skipping it? ~ Dan Gemeinhart

Jesus understands the draw to skipping God's plan and going for the easier way. ~ Holley Gerth

Gold delights to walk through the very midst of the guard, and to break its way through hard rocks, more powerful in its blow than lightning. ~ Horace

The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Said, sounding a little nervous. Skipping ahead to Everyday Necessities. Try your best to buy reused. ~ Barbara Kingsolver