Quotes About Skim

Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away.

If you try to follow the language of thought in your own mind, you will not find even the simplest sentences- only shreds, fragments of sentences, scattered as after an explosion, have greater effect on the reader than the same thoughts and images arranged in regular, steady, marching ranks?...because you meet the reader's natural instinctive need. You do not compel him to skim

the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.

The Naughty List - People who skim or outright skip acknowledgments pages. Please contact the management for your free, all-expenses-paid pass to Christmasland.

You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.

reality is a thin skim of ice over a deep lake of dark water.

Satan will try to stir up what our faithful Refiner wants to skim off.

From top to bottom in congregation after congregation, Sunday fare is milk, not meat. Make that skim milk.

I follow a lot of news outlets on Twitter, so I'll just go skim through the headlines and see what's going on.

I'm a pretentious coffee snob, and I love Starbucks. Gotta have my skim latte.

into the iron pot for flavor. It was also my task to skim the scum that boiled to the top of the broth as the bones simmered, leaving the broth clear and rich.

Here's a writing craft tool that you can remove from your toolbox and throw away: description. It's the stuff that most readers skim. Even when deftly done using the five senses it's a lead weight. It isn't needed anymore.