Skates Quotes - Page 7

• And thus Snow White became the prince's bride.
  The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast
  and when she arrived there were
  red-hot iron shoes,
  in the manner of red-hot roller skates,
  clamped upon her feet.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Queens, Iron

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I'm on skates, I feel at home no matter what I'm doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I think I could do it just becauseI was on skates. When I'm not on skates, though, I feel very strange.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Home, Thinking, Ice Skating

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• All my life I have wanted to skate, and all my life I have skated.

  Sonja Henie

  Wanted

  Sonja Henie (1940). “Wings on my feet”

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• We are shut up in school and college recitation rooms for ten to fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse or a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Horse, Stars

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.34, North Atlantic Books

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• I don't need a good skate to make everything OK.

  Mary Docter

  Needs

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• I just love to skate. When I put a skate on the ice, I'm free from the world, and I have no problems at all. I am a bird!

  Jim Carrey

  Ice, Bird, World

  "Jim Carrey Interview, Mr Popper's Penguins". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 10, 2017.

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• I used to play hockey when I was growing up. Everyone sort of learns how to skate and play hockey at an early age.

  Bob Dylan

  Growing Up, Hockey, Play

  Bob Dylan “The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career”

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• The skaters a lot of times do their own hair and makeup before they compete. That was always kind of a ritual...that calming, quiet time where you can just do your hair and makeup. And then I would always lace up my right skate before my left one.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Makeup, Hair, Lace

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around, and you have to time how to move along with it. That's easier with a slow wave.

  Kelly Slater

  Moving, Mountain, Wave

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I find that a lot of times when family members get bronchitis or the flu or something like that, I'll kind of skate through and be really lucky and not get that sick.

  Aaron Bruno

  Sick, Lucky, Flu

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• If you're going to photograph skateboarders you can't run after them, you've got to learn how to skate. So at about 50 years old I learned how to skate, and skate fast enough to keep up with them and hold my camera.

  Larry Clark

  Running, Years, Cameras

  "Larry Clark’s Americ". Interview with Owen Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2016.

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• I learned how to skate, I couldn't do the tricks, but I could certainly skate fast enough. I could keep up with anybody and I could bomb hills and I could hide behind my camera.

  Larry Clark

  Cameras, Bombs, Hills

  "Larry Clark’s America". Interview with Owen Wilson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2016.

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• Right after the 9/11 attacks I was living near Oakland in California with a buddy who had also grown up in the skate/punk scene of the 80s. We were so shell-shocked from the attacks that we sort of regressed into this childlike mode of filling our apartment with '80s memorabilia. We got all of our favorite skateboard decks off of eBay, bought a bunch of old independent trucks, we got a credit card so that we could buy 720 off of a videogame vendor, we sat around listening to T.S.O.L. and The Misfits playing 720 and pretending that we were still living in our childhood.

  Rick Remender

  Independent, Ebay, Oakland

  Source: www.ign.com

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• My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked it.

  Bonnie Blair

  Sports, Parent, Age

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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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• I skate all the time, but it's silly for me to do contests when MTV is giving me a boatload of money.

  Bam Margera

  Silly, Mtv, Giving

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• Much better than it has been all week. I got sick again this week, so I wasn't really able to breathe. I was on antibiotics (until Wednesday). This program was so great coming here. I felt more confident than I ever have all season, more calm, more relaxed, bending the knees. So even that program with the one mistake ... you can't be perfect all the time, but for me that was a great skate for me and I'm happy with how it went.

  Gabrielle Daleman

  Mistake, Perfect, Sick

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• He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.

  Alan Ayckbourn

  Running, Hills, Heavy

  Alan Ayckbourn (1988). “The Norman Conquests: A Trilogy of Plays”, p.100, Grove Press

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• Searching for funds to continue my skating career when I was 17, I called the Women's Sports Foundation in New York. The intern who answered the phone suggested that I might be a great candidate for the Travel and Training fund, and she sent me an application form. I applied for a grant. With the funds I was awarded, I bought a new pair of skates and a plane ticket to the 1988 National Championships, where I achieved my highest national finish. Four years later, I won the gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Games.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Leadership, Sports, New York

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• Here's a shock: An adult who still hangs out in skate parks is a bad parent.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Humor, Parent

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• Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. We'll go nutting once more. We'll pluck the nut of the world, and crack it in the winter evenings. Theaters and all other sightseeing are puppet-shows in comparison. I will take another walk to the Cliff, another row on the river, another skate on the meadow, be out in the first snow, and associate with the winter birds. Here I am at home. In the bare and bleached crust of the earth I recognize my friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Winter

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• Bryan Fogarty could skate faster, shoot harder and pass crisper drunk than the rest of us could sober.

  Mats Sundin

  Drunk, Sober, Faster

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• There is a distinction between failing and being a failure. Few things are learned in life without failing at least once. Did you learn to roller skate without falling a few times? Did you learn to ride a bike without losing your balance? Chances are you didn't. You may have wanted to do those things so intensely that you quickly put unsuccessful attempts behind you and kept trying. Soon you acquired the skill to do the thing you wanted. Even though in the process of learning you may have failed many times, you were not a failure. "Failing" simply became an open door to try again.

  John Templeton

  Failure, Fall, Doors

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• L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness never comes, like a deal that never goes down, a meeting that's never taken. The City of Angels: where every cockroach has a screenplay and even the winos wear roller skates. It's that kind of town.

  Ian Shoales

  Taken, Angel, Cities

  Ian Shoales (1985). “I gotta go: the commentary of Ian Shoales”, Perigee

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• I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.

  Ben Stiller

  Hockey, Play, Comfortable

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