Quotes About Roller Derby

#1. (My youngest sister, Antimony, is still trying to figure out what she wants to do with her life. For the moment, it mostly seems to be roller derby, the occasional monster hunting job, and getting pissed at our parents.)

Seanan McGuire

#2. Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby.

Jessica Williams

#3. The people, they need someone to live through. Trust me, I used to be in roller derby back in the day. People need a hero.

Mat Johnson

#4. In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed.

Hunter S. Thompson

#5. I will show you how to apply that concept to your life as a rock star, secret agent, UN sniper, or Roller Derby MVP. I am qualified to do this because I'm a mechanical engineer. That's what we do. We take scientific concepts and make them useful.

Christine McKinley

#6. There's a roller derby girl that goes by that name, 'Nerd Rage,' and she named herself after my album.

Brian Posehn

#7. The first thing I ever learned in roller derby is to fall, and in the author world I believe that same rule applies.

Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

#8. I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie.

Drew Barrymore

#9. I apologize. Hi, I'm Agent Sloane Brodie, your Team Leader. I enjoy reading, cozy nights in, and the soothing sounds of classic rock. I also like to browse the Internet for funny cat videos, but deep down, I think I'm more of a dog person.

Charlie Cochet

#10. I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer.

Gia Coppola

#11. It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.

Kathe Kollwitz

#12. I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.

Elvis Costello

#13. On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

Bebe Neuwirth

#14. I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England.

Peter Shaffer

#15. Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.

Rumi

#16. Your guardian angel loves you and you are precious to them - you are the most important person in the world to them and, they have to do everything they can for you.

Lorna Byrne

#17. I'm not sure why I began this," she admitted. "But I know why I have to finish. I know why fate brought me here, why it placed me in the path of this prize.

Leigh Bardugo

#18. I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.

Roxane Gay

#19. I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.

G. Willow Wilson

#20. The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: 'What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?'

Robert Kiyosaki

#21. I'm kind of a rebound junkie. So. when a relationship goes sour, I look at the sweetness in life elsewhere. So, I date a bit. The best catharsis is to write jokes and tell 4,000 people about it.

Vir Das

#22. The French are often, when it comes to wine, so formal that they border on the ridiculous.

Muriel Barbery

#23. In my nothing, you were everything, to me.

Trent Reznor