A Quote by Craig Brown

The first sign builders are on their way is when - hey, presto! - a skip appears outside your house.

Craig Brown

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Craig Brown
English - Critic
Born: May 23, 1957

It's about making small changes at first and adding foods to your diet before you take any away; start with one extra vegetable or fruit at every meal, and hey, presto, that's 21 portions a week.

Ella Woodward

So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'

Tim Vine

I think the first sign of friendship is a manifestation of how you separate from your parents and try to find a new family on your own. It's the first sign of growing.

Julie Delpy

You're never quite sure how you feel about a neighbor until a 'For Sale' sign suddenly appears in front of his house.

Orlando Aloysius Battista

Gun violence is not something that appears just in a bad neighborhood or in another part of the world. It appears right here, right outside your door.

Stephen Young

Management gurus in general are, I think, best avoided. All too often they reduce your working life to a list of rules to be followed. Targets are aimed at. Goals kicked at. You then break the rules or forget them and, hey presto, you start beating yourself up.

Tom Hodgkinson

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

Desmond Tutu

A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, . . . not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

Salman Rushdie

My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.

Henry Louis Gates

There are plenty of genre-crossover books, films, and games out there, but to do the job well, you have to do more than just smoosh a couple of 'in' concepts together, and hey presto, instant millions.

Jay Kristoff

Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.

Gautama Buddha

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.

Marina Abramovic

When you skip to a beat, it is a much more pleasurable way to stay active. It becomes a mixture of dance and skip.

Miquita Oliver

The dollar sign is the only sign in which the modern man appears to have any real faith.

Helen Rowland

If everything appears meaningless then congratulations to you! You have started on the path. This is the first sign of intelligence, of waking up.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

For most Builders, the journey is like shooting for the moon and instead hitting Mars-perhaps a better, but different outcome than envisioned. Builders are the first to admit (at least, in private) that planning works, but as the adage goes, the plan itself, rarely does.

Jerry I. Porras

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