It is sometimes difficult to be inspired when trying to write a persuasive essay, book report or thoughtful research paper. Often of times, it is hard to find words that best describe your ideas. EssaysAdepts now provides a database of over 150,000 quotations and proverbs from the famous inventors, philosophers, sportsmen, artists, celebrities, business people, and authors that are aimed to enrich and strengthen your essay, term paper, book report, thesis or research paper.

Try our free search of constantly updated quotations and proverbs database.

QuotationsAuthorsTopicsKeywords

Search over 150,000 Quotations & Proverbs
Browse Keywords: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "S" » skim
«He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.»
Author: Arthur James Balfour | Keywords: refined, skim, skimming, skipping
«The feathered race with pinions skim the air - / Not so the mackerel, and still less the bear.»
Author: John Hookham Frere | Keywords: feathered, pinion, pinions, skim, skimming, The Bear
«Things are seldom what they seem, / Skim milk masquerades as cream.»
Author: William S. Gilbert (Lyricist) | Keywords: cream, masquerade, masquerades, masquerading, milk, skim, skimming, skim milk
«Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make acute and balanced observers»
Author: George Meredith (Novelist, Poet) | About: Culture, Men and Women | Keywords: acute, attached, balanced, cream, cultivated, skim, skimming, The Cream
«The clear layer is glycerin. You can mix glycerin back in when you make soap. Or You can skim the glycerin off. You can mix the glycerin with nitric acid to make nitroglycerin. You can mix nitroglycerin with sodium nitrate and sawdust to make dynamite. You can blow up bridges. You can mix nitroglycerin with more nitric acid and parafin and make gelatin explosives. You can blow up a building, easy. With enough soap, you can blow up the whole world.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk (Journalist, Novelist, Satirist) | Keywords: acid, acids, blow, blow up, Bridges, building, dynamite, explosives, gelatin, glycerin, layer, layered, mix, nitrate, nitric, nitric acid, sawdust, skim, skimming, soap, soaps, sodium, sodium nitrate
«It is not well for a man to pray, cream; and live skim milk»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher | Keywords: skim, skimming, skim milk
Research our database of over 800,000 top-quality pre-written papers plus 15,000 biographies for only $9.95/month.
Instant Account Activation. Register Now.