Quotes About Ice Skates

#1. Allure goes beyond appearances to the way they grace the world. Some women propel themselves by means of an internal gyroscope. Others glide through life as if on ice skates. Some women convey their tortured lives through their eyes; others encircle you in the music of their laughter.

Keith Donohue

#2. Is God somehow responsible for the suffering of this world? In this indirect way, yes. But giving a child a pair of ice skates, knowing that he may fall, is a very different matter from knocking him down on the ice.

Philip Yancey

#3. I tried to imagine Tate on ice skates. This vision didn't form in my brain likely because Tate's badassness reached across four states and halted such activity.

Kristen Ashley

#4. You two are like Dumb and Dumber on ice skates.

Beth Ehemann

#5. Zitner said hell would freeze over before something like that happened. Harold had a brief image of Adolf Hitler and Judas Iscariot handing out ice-skates and went on heaving sandbags.

Stephen King

#6. And I'm not very coordinated, either. Only on ice skates, not in real life.

Julie Benz

#7. Compared to relationships, events and programs make me think of ice skates gliding across ice. Relationships make me think of gum on the bottom of a shoe on a hot day.

Jonathan Leeman

#8. I could sit here in the tribunes and watch Michelle Kwan skate for hours ...

Carolina Kostner

#9. I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing.

Sonja Henie

#10. Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.

David Walton

#11. When people discover they are no good at baseball or hockey, they put away their bats and their skates and they take up amateur golf or stamp collecting or gardening. But when people discover they are no good at picking stocks, they are likely to continue to do it anyway.

Peter Lynch

#12. My toys were those of a boy: skates, bicycles.

Frida Kahlo

#13. 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

#14. Had she mentioned she liked a guy with big hands?

Kate Meader

#15. Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates.

Eric Idle

#16. You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

Junior Seau

#17. Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.

Frank Zappa

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

Wayne Gretzky

#19. I couldn't skate, I couldn't shoot, and I wasn't very intelligent. But I was spectacular

Ken Reardon

#20. I generally like white skates.

Sasha Cohen

#21. When it comes down to competition, it's not always about the best skater, it's about who skates the best in that competition.

Gracie Gold

#22. She was back on her skates, twirling expertly about the slippery surface of her life.

Anonymous

#23. Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

John Dean

#24. 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

#25. That boy skates close to the edge, he always has. He's utterly fearless and that's how he's made his reputation. But the rabbit is never more than two jumps ahead of the coyote . .

Robert A. Heinlein

#26. The most important thing in skating is finding your center. There is nothing better than Skate Spinner to do this - not even skates!

Karen Magnussen

#27. I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.

Michelle Kwan

#28. I like to skate on the other side of the ice.

Steven Wright

#29. 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

#30. You're a princess on roller skates. People like you skate through life on shiny gold blades to full orchestral music with the wind at you back. Everything comes easy to skaters ... Everyone loves you

Shelley Coriell

#31. Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.

Leonard Bishop

#32. If it takes every cent of my money, every single one of my vast resources, I'll see to it that you never insure another vehicle again. When I get done with you, you won't be able to put on roller skates without the Feds breathing down your neck.

J.A. Konrath

#33. If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.

Leopold Fechtner

#34. The scrape of the skates on the ice. The smell of musty old equipment. The black puck stains on the boards. To the uninitiated they're nothing, but to a hockey player they're home.

Jeff Lemire

#35. We grew up very poor, and I hated being poor. I was the oldest of five kids, and I never got a pair of skates until I was nine. It was very difficult to get an education back then and play junior hockey.

Paul Henderson

#36. While I circled around and around in my brown rental skates, I studied a group of skaters spinning in the center. I was fascinated! When my mom picked me up, I began a campaign for skating lessons.

Gracie Gold

#37. She was a strange, unsettled planet that had had once sustained life. She was a language that I had thought I almost understood even though I couldn't speak it. She hadn't always been this way. She used to wear high knee socks and short shorts and tube tops, and travel everywhere on roller skates.

Miriam Toews

#38. You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.

Joe Sakic

#39. 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

#40. I bet she thought she was getting into a fight with a vanilla wafer on roller skates but little did she know she was getting into a fight with a spider sandwich.

Andrea Portes

#41. There's something about putting on a pair of skates, and getting out there and moving like nobody else can. Freedom is a word that comes to mind.

Randy Gardner

#42. Weary soccer players just cannot run anymore and must resort to shootouts after 120 minutes when a result is mandatory, but men on skates can go indefinitely, no matter how badly it disrupts the television network's schedule.

George Vecsey

#43. 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.

#44. Before turning pro, I would never have just left my skates sitting in the locker room unattended.

Kristi Yamaguchi

#45. I am just a person who can't skate in the mountains

Alexei Yagudin

#46. It seemed to me that life was a giant ice skating rink, and I was the only one who didn't have skates. Most people fear death. I don't. I'm only afraid of not living. I don't want to be the one behind the ice rink fence, watching other people having fun.

Milena Veen

#47. Are you aware, Mr Mayor, then when casually scrying the streets of London, you stand out like a giraffe on roller skates, yes?

Kate Griffin

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

Ben Stiller

#49. I wish I had a river I could skate away on?

Joni Mitchell

#50. I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.

Nancy Kerrigan

#51. I'd ice-skated before, because I'm Canadian and that's what you do as a kid, but I'd never, ever been on quad skates.

Ellen Page

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

Alan Ayckbourn

#53. Speed, to hear their skates clapping along, then

Anthony Doerr

#54. When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.

J. R. Celski

#55. 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

#56. I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy. If somebody skates to earn money, I don't care. I skate for the people. Besides, it's pleasant to supply Russia with gold medals.

Evgeni Plushenko

#57. The quintessential bad - luck position. Pucks can go off bodies, skates, bounce into the net.

Mike Liut

#58. Once you turn pro and you're making the big money and kids are buying your sneakers and your skates and your gloves and so on, you are a member of that role model club.

Bobby Orr

#59. He'd never answered the text from his brother last night because he was otherwise occupied getting a gorgeous stranger off on an open-air balcony in the middle of downtown Chicago. You couldn't make this shit up.
Penthouse, check your mail.

Kate Meader

#60. I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for business. It's a great game for making connections.

Condoleezza Rice

#61. He fell to his knees.
Oh, that was good.

Kate Meader

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

Holland Taylor

#63. My publishers will make any kind of a beautiful book I design and send in to them, but ... For poetry they have less use than a rooster would have for skates.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#64. Straight talk is a virtue. Dirty talk is a goddamn blessing.

Kate Meader

#65. I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

Wayne Gretzky

#66. Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother's old ones.

Dorothy Hamill

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

Sonja Henie

#68. The world is full of sluts on skates. From Penn-warren's "All the Kings Men.

Martha Miller

#69. 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

#70. A nice note, Addy? You're calling the best orgasms we've ever had nice?"
She canted her head, wryness in the motion. "Speak for yourself, Callaghan.

Kate Meader

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

Scott Hamilton

#72. I don't know much about football, but when I see one player take his opponent down with a gruesome flying tackle, I can't help but have immediate, newfound respect. Any derby girl worth her skates would kill to throw a block like that.

Shauna Cross

#73. Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums!
And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly,
Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley!

Dr. Seuss

#74. 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

#75. Twelve shillings for your sister's skates, and two shillings for your dreams.

Noel Streatfeild

#76. I do have the roller skates from 'Boogie Nights.'

Heather Graham

#77. Teaching without talent, compassion and endurance is like an octopus on skates - there will be movement without direction.

Kavita Bhupta Ghosh

#78. I started skating at age 2 on roller skates on the South Side of Chicago, where I grew up. By age 4, roller-skating was something I really enjoyed. Everyone around me wanted to do the 'roll bounce' thing, but I was pretty much only interested in going fast.

Shani Davis

#79. The mint and honeysuckle air is chilly on her damp face, awake on the nape of her neck as Witch Baby Wigg skates home.

Francesca Lia Block

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

Roald Dahl

#81. An innocent smile skates closer with her movement, walking fingers up my stomach to halt over my heart, "Mate, you." She nods, as if declaring this is easy and absolute.

Poppet

#82. I don't think we've met," he said in all seriousness, and her body's reaction to that voice confirmed his lie. Her body knew that voice like a snake knew its charmer.

Kate Meader

#83. I always thought after 2002 that I'd hang up my skates and turn professional and just go on tour and do shows. But I don't know when it is enough. I mean, I still enjoy it. I'm the luckiest girl alive that I get to perform in front of thousands of people, do what I love doing.

Michelle Kwan

#84. I remember when we were shooting 'Boogie Nights,' all of my stand-ins were wiping out all the time. I'd practice before I got to the set, but they'd just show up and put on the roller-skates, and they'd be skating over these wires and cables, so they would all fall over. It was totally dangerous.

Heather Graham

#85. Most of the time I go around feeling like an old man on roller skates.

Kathleen Hale

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. The Orioles' Dick Hall comes off the mound like a drunk kangaroo on roller skates.

Joe Garagiola

#89. I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

Leonard Cohen

#90. We have gone zero days without a panties-dampening episode.

Kate Meader