Skates Quotes

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  I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Wayne Gretzky (2000). “99 My Life in Pictures”, Mint Pub

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• Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Funny Inspirational, Octopus, Discipline

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• Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Octopus, Discipline, Roller Skating

  "Stop Throwing Yourself Off-Balance - 5 Factors to be Mindful of When Making Business Decisions" by Valeh Nazemoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I was nine-years-old when I first put on skates.

  Scott Hamilton

  Years, Nine, Firsts

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• Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.

  J. D. Salinger

  Giving, Ends, Give Me

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• I was a strange child. I was the kid with funny hair listening to dodgy music [...] I'd come in with my hoodie and skate-shoes, with purple hair under the hood. I got away with it because I spent all my time in the art room, so they figured I was 'artistic'. I was that kind of kid, listening to Green Day and the Deftones and all that kind of thing.

  Katie McGrath

  Art, Children, Kids

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• I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

  Holland Taylor

  Doe, Playing Someone, Want

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• Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and vice we all stand upon thin ice. Are we brave or are we mice, here upon such thin, thin ice? Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

  Dean Koontz

  Kindness, Winning, Knowing

  Dean Koontz, “Dragon Tears”

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• Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them something that will truly be worth seeing, she feels as if her feet are not on cement at all but on ice. The blade of the skate floats, she knows, on a thin film of water, which it melts by pressure and which freezes behind it. This is the freedom of the present tense, this sliding edge.

  Margaret Atwood

  Past, Feet, Ice

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bluebeard's Egg”, p.257, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Falling In Love, School, Cutting

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• He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted - that word was 'eternity', and the Snow Queen had said, "If you can discover that figure, you shall be your own master, and I will make you a present of the whole world and a pair of new skates." But he could not find it out.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Queens, Snow, World

  Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “Andersen’s Fairy Tales”, p.85, Hans Christian Andersen

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• If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

  Roald Dahl

  Lord, Walks, Ifs

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• Do you remember that old TV series, Get Smart? Do you remember at the beginning where Maxwell Smart is walking down the secret corridor and there are all of those doors that open sideways, and upside down and gateways and stuff? I think that everyone keeps a whole bunch of doors just like this between themselves and the world. But when you're in love, all of your doors are open, and all of their doors are open. And you roller-skate down your halls together.

  Douglas Coupland

  Smart, Thinking, Doors

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• It turns out that, at social gatherings, as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, I rank somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice-skate.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fun, Ice, Gathering

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• A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Learning, Men, Progress

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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• What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.

  Anne Carson

  Cutting, Orange, Quota

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• They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.

  Eric Idle

  Kids, Drug, Typical

  "Fictional character: First Bruce". "Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl", www.imdb.com. June 25, 1982.

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• My goal, my dream has already come true. Every kid's dream is to become a pro skater, you know? Not only have I become a pro skater, but to me personally, I ride for the best sponsors there are. That's even more than I ever expected... I didn't skate to please everyone else. I started skating because I love to skate. you gotta watch out because there will come a point where you'll forget that.

  Paul Rodriguez

  Dream, Kids, Goal

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• As a Canadian it's something you grow up with. Where I'm from in Canada the ground usually freezes in late October and the lake is frozen until late March. We learn to skate at a young age and I learned to skate when I was three. I was on an outdoor rink when I was three-years-old.

  Gerad Adams

  Growing Up, Lakes, Years

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Somebody who's learning how to ice skate for the first time would need skates, a helmet for head protection and elbow pads, because you do fall quite a bit.

  Gerad Adams

  Fall, Ice, Needs

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I feel like I am beginning to be a part of a musical community, but I wouldn't say I'm a country artist because I wouldn't want to invalidate anybody else or to even begin to be so preposterous as to think I can just skate into town and get some fans.

  Sheryl Crow

  Country, Artist, Thinking

  "The Billboard Q&A: Sheryl Crow". Interview with Ken Tucker, www.billboard.com. January 23, 2008.

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• I like to skate on the other side of the ice.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Ice

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• I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates or with big dogs.

  Maeve Binchy

  Dog, Children, People

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• Good players skate to the puck. Great players skate to where the puck is going to be.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Player, Puck

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• All those hours spent alone on the rink is where a skater's strength comes from. That's where a standing ovation starts and if you don't want to be there, it is going to show. Nothing you dreamed about is going to happen if you forget why you started in the first place. You have to skate with you heart. Before anyone can believe in you, you have to believe in yourself.

  Kurt Browning

  Believe, Heart, Ovation

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