Skates Quotes - Page 3

• I skated in ice shows all over Europe and South Africa for 20 years. I love to ice skate.

  Kenny Baker

  Years, Europe, Ice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's been really slow obviously, but I'm not worried about that. I feel like from where I was a couple months ago, things are a lot better. Just being able to skate and stuff was encouraging. Hopefully the next step doesn't have any hurdles.

  Sidney Crosby

  Couple, Being Positive, Next Steps

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• I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.

  Mike Weir

  Sports, Pads, Action

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in acidents or altercations, while others skate through the years with nothing worse to worry about than an occassional bad-hair day. I still possessed both legs and both eyes, and even my hair looked all right when I rose that Wednesday morning in late January. If I returned to bed sixteen hours later, having lost all my hair but nothing else, I would consider the day a triumph. Even minus a few teeth, I'd call it a triumph.

  Dean Koontz

  Morning, Eye, Journey

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• For me, I skate as masculine as I can. I'm not a big strong guy. I'm not interested in fighting or throwing punches or balling my hands in fists all day. I'm not interested in guns, I'm not interested in football or stereotypically masculine things, so I'm going to skate in a fashion that is manly for Johnny Weir.

  Johnny Weir

  Football, Fashion, Strong

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• I'm going to skate exactly the way I want to, create programs that I like, and everything will fall into place where it is supposed to.

  Johnny Weir

  Fall, Want, Way

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• I run a lot. I do a lot of yoga. Hot yoga. Which is random and sounds lame, but it has definitely made my flexibility and balance 100 percent better on my skateboard. I do that and a lot of plyometric, biometrics, and surf. I train every other day of the week and skate for an hour everyday.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Running, Yoga, Everyday

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• I skate to anything with a good beat, anything that can get me motivated.

  Ryan Sheckler

  Motivated, Beats

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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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• 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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• 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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• Yeah, I'm going to learn. I'm going to learn to skate really good, and if I can't, I'm going to get hurt doing it.

  Tre Cool

  Hurt, Yeah, I Can

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• In Detroit, Ned [Harkness] kept talking about a new concept, and when I'd ask him what he meant he never gave me the right answer. Now, take Bobby Hull. Give him a puck, a stick and a pair of skates and put him on your team. Do you need a new concept?

  Frank Mahovlich

  Team, Talking, Giving

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• I'm trying to let winning the world championships settle in right now before I begin training again shortly. During the skating season, we skate on average 20 kilometres a day. On top of that, we're riding a lot and lifting a lot of weights.

  Clara Hughes

  Winning, Average, Training

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• I love the fact that there is now a skate park in almost every city, but it will always have a rebellious/underground edge to it because it is based on individuality.

  Tony Hawk

  Cities, Individuality, Parks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A corner of his mouth quirked up. “I play pool. Shoot hoops sometimes too. Any other sport you’re curious about?” “Hockey? Polo?” “Simultaneously. Trick is to keep the horses on their skates.

  Devon Monk

  Sports, Horse, Hockey

  Devon Monk (2010). “Magic on the Storm: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.60, Penguin

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• She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates.

  David Nicholls

  Flirting, Light, Sun

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• Oh. A bigger studio. It dawns on me, stupid me, that Henry could win the lottery at any time at all; that he has never bothered to do so because it's not normal; that he has decided to set aside his fanatical dedication to living like a normal person so I can have a studio big enough to roller-skate across; that I am being an ingrate. "Clare? Earth to Clare..." "Thank you," I say, too abruptly.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Stupid, Winning, Dedication

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• Leon, no offense, but you don't exactly look like a hockey player." "I told 'em I was a goalie. That's where they put the guy who can't skate, right? Just like in baseball when they put the worst player at catcher.

  Steve Hamilton

  Baseball, Hockey, Player

  Steve Hamilton (2007). “Winter of the Wolf Moon: An Alex McKnight Mystery”, p.119, Macmillan

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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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• At the end of each year, I sit on the floor and go page by page through the old calendar, inking annual events into the new one, all the while watching my year in 'dinner withs' skate by. When I'm done, I save the old calendar in the box of the new one and put it with the others on a shelf.

  Sloane Crosley

  Years, Events, Calendars

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