Skittles Quotes

• Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?

  George du Maurier

  Beer, Odds, Long

  George du Maurier (2015). “Trilby”, p.17, Booklassic

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• Life ain't all beer and skittles.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Beer

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1855). “Nature and Human Nature”, p.37, New York : Stringer and Townsend

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• My indulgences are Skittles and rum raisin ice cream.

  Sanya Richards-Ross

  Ice Cream, Raisins, Rum

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• Life is with such all beer and skittles.
  They are not difficult to please
  About their victuals.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Life, Beer, Difficult

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.59

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• It wasn't just Willie and Waylon, there were a lot of influences there. The coolest thing about this, is after getting to listen back to all these mixes is realizing that this record is like a bag of Skittles; every time you pull something out, it's a different flavor. But they're all Skittles. They're all Cody Johnson.

  Cody Johnson

  Different, Bags, Records

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• Knocking the shrieking goblins aside like skittles

  J. K. Rowling

  Knocking, Goblin

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• Halloween is tomorrow. A group of wine experts has actually come up with a list of the best wines to pair with Halloween candy. They say, "White wine goes great with Skittles, red wine goes great with Twix, and ... we're alcoholics, aren't we?

  Jimmy Fallon

  Halloween, Wine, White

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• Life isn't all beer and skittles; few of us have touched a skittle in years.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Beer, Years, Touched

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• I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Home, Wine, Mean

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• Managing an advertising agency isn't all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has one principle responsibility: to provide an atmosphere in which creative mavericks can do useful work.

  David Ogilvy

  Responsibility, Beer, Men

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• If you are going to worship a guy who was crucified, don't expect life to be pop and Skittles.

  Mark P. Shea

  Guy, Worship, Pops

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• In my dressing room, you'll definitely find some Starbursts and Skittles. I have a lot of candles that remind me of home, and a humidifier for my voice. I also have some digital Kodak albums where I have pictures of my friends and family.

  Trey Songz

  Home, Voice, Family And Friends

  "Trey Songz Answers Fan Questions". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.seventeen.com. February 7, 2011.

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• Life's not all beer and skittles

  Radclyffe Hall

  Beer

  Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.131, Radclyffe Hall

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• They don't mind it: its a reg'lar holiday to them - all porter and skittles.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Holiday, Mind

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.580, Delphi Classics

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• We came, we saw, we bedazzled! You know, and it's hard to be serious and thoughtful when you're dressed like a Skittle.

  Carson Kressley

  Thoughtful, Saws, Serious

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm just not one of these guys who, like, you know, woke up with a six-pack. I need Skittles. I have to eat very particularly and I have to work out like a madman. And then it looks like... okay.

  Max Greenfield

  Work Out, Guy, Needs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I hate false advertising, like 'Skittles: taste the rainbow.' No one's ever been like, 'Rainbow, right you guys?' Or what's Reese's? 'There's no wrong way to eat a Reese's.' Oh, really? Tell that to my uncle who used to put them in my underwear. Alright, maybe your uncles didn't love you.

  Amy Schumer

  Uncles, Hate, Love You

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• I think I was like [a game of] skittles, knocked apart by this wooden ball, and there's a strength to that: you're not too self-conscious about what you're doing, so you're not too worried about it.

  David Toop

  Thinking, Games, Self

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader’s attention from the plain truth.

  Sidney Hook

  Political, Attention, Landscape

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• Once in a Moscow chess club I saw how two first-category players knocked pieces off the board as they were exchanged, so that the pieces fell onto the floor. It was as if they were playing skittles and not chess!

  Alexander Kotov

  Player, Two, Boards

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• Life isn't all beer and skittles.

  Thomas Hughes

  Life, Beer, Hurling

  Tom Brown's Schooldays pt. 1, ch. 2 (1857)

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• The Victorians have been immoderately praised, and immoderately blamed, and surely it is time we formed some reasonable picture of them? There was their courageous, intellectually adventurous side, their greedy and inhuman side, their superbly poetic side, their morally pretentious side, their tea and buttered toast side, and their champagne and Skittles side. Much like ourselves, in fact, though rather dirtier.

  Robertson Davies

  Tea, Facts, Sides

  "The Girl with the Swansdown Seat/Abode of Love/1848". 1956.

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• Death and burial were a public spectacle. Shakespeare may have seen for himself the gravediggers at St Ann's, Soho, playing skittles with skulls and bones.

  Catharine Arnold

  Skulls, Skull And Bones, May

  Catharine Arnold (2008). “Necropolis: London and Its Dead”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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