Quotes About Skating On Thin Ice

#1. There's always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up.

Carol Goodman

#2. It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.

Jostein Gaarder

#3. If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance!

Laurie Strongin

#4. If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, Wake up and write the book!

Kerry Greenwood

#5. In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. I grew up dancing salsa - you know, a traditional Puerto Rican dance.

Gina Rodriguez

#7. Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis.

Zygmunt Bauman

#8. It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Franklin P. Jones

#9. When you grow up in the saddest chapter of someone else's story, you're forever skating on the thin ice of their memories.

Carys Bray

#10. It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian.

Lee Greenwood

#11. An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal promise of his craft.

Kate Mulgrew

#12. No innocent person ever has an alibi.

Agatha Christie

#13. She laughed. "Welcome to Camp Meds," She said. "Where the campers are crazy and the counselors want you to take drugs.

Michael Thomas Ford

#14. You don't touch the purse. The purse is sacrosanct.

Julie James

#15. Masterpieces of beauty, craftsmanship, and stability, all erected

Robert Greene

#16. Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell

#17. Training for the ballet, Potter?

J.K. Rowling

#18. Creativity is fragile; if you don't nurture it, it can die, leaving you recycling old ideas and pretending they're fresh. It's a sure road to mediocrity.

Lee Silber

#19. Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast.

Pete Domenici

#20. The torments of a proud decision, a deep conscience! God, in whom he did not believe, and his truth were overcoming his heart, which still did not want to submit.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#21. Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.

Sally Quinn