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skating QUOTES

1 " 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. "

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 , The Ringmaster's Daughter

3 " You’re killing me in this proper little suit,” he said, skating a heated look over her shirt. “My place or yours?”

She swallowed thickly, the hand against his chest beginning to sweat. “I-I’m busy.”

“You’re gonna be,” he said, smiling. “Need to know what bed you’re gonna be in, though. Bringing my A game.”

“Don’t you think—?”

“About you underneath me? Only every other minute. Now answer me, or else I’ll throw you on the nearest desk.”

Heat burst onto her cheeks. He noticed.

“Oh, really?” He smiled down at her. "

― Jessica Lemmon , If You Dare

4 " It was Christmas night in the Castle of the Forest Sauvage, and all around length. It hung on the boughs of the forest trees in rounded lumps, even better than apple-blossom, and occasionally slid off the roofs of the village when it saw the chance of falling on some amusing character and giving pleasure to all. The boys made snowballs with it, but never put stones in them to hurt each other, and the dogs, when they were taken out to scombre, bit it and rolled in it, and looked surprised but delighted when they vanished into the bigger drifts. There was skating on the moat, which roared with the gliding bones which they used for skates, while hot chestnuts and spiced mead were served on the bank to all and sundry. The owls hooted. The cooks put out plenty of crumbs for the small birds. The villagers brought out their red mufflers. Sir Ector’s face shone redder even than these. And reddest of all shone the cottage fires down the main street of an evening, "

― T.H. White , The Once and Future King (The Once and Future King, #1-4)

5 " There are details about your life I really do not want to know about. You told me he taught you how to fight with weapons, but I guess I never…”

“Put two and two together?” Katie grinned. “That’s not like you, detective Jules.”

“I know. I guess I overlooked the gory details. Blood and guts have never been my forte. I like action. Give me Mission Impossible and CSI, but leave out the gruesome details.”

They stopped upon reaching the entrance to the barn. “Roller skating disco lover turns FBI crime scene investigator. I think there’s a book waiting to be written for you. "

― Mary Abshire ,

6 " If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance! "

― , Saving Henry: A Mother's Journey

7 " I survived by keeping my emotions in check – by maintaining my composure and tucking it all away. I managed to stay under the radar, skating through school without anyone truly remembering I was here. My teachers acknowledged my academic successes and my coaches depended upon my athletic abilities, but I wasn’t important enough to make a recognizable social contribution. I was easily forgettable. That’s what I counted on. "

― Rebecca Donovan , Reason to Breathe (Breathing, #1)

8 " Lucky's monologue: " (...)the strides of physical culture the practice of sports such as tennis football running cycling swimming flying floating riding gliding conating camogie skating tennis of all kinds dying flying sports of all sorts autumn summer winter winter tennis of all kinds hockey of all sorts peniciline and succedanea in a word(...) "

9 " A leader is skating up hill on a slippery slope when Servant Leadership is not part of a leaders philosophy. "

10 " When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they didn't exist, so being active was all we knew. "

11 " Ice skating is very difficult. It takes a lot of discipline and a lot of hard work. It's fun, but you are there on the ice every morning freezing and trying to do these moves and these tricks. "

12 " If we have a situation where a man is particularly graceful in a sport that rewards grace - say, for example, figure skating - why is it that we don't say to the man, 'Well, you're too feminine to compete?'... I don't understand why we don't find it offensive also to say to a women who's very strong, 'You're too masculine to compete.' "

13 " The scenes in 'The Virgin Suicides' where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing. "

14 " I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you. It's an amazing feeling. "

15 " Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. "

16 " I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance. "

17 " Music is fun, but I'm an ice skater. I may sing songs and do shows, make movies and other things... that's all well and good and I enjoy it, and I would never trade any of those for anything. But figure skating is who I am. "

18 " All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it. "

19 " While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event. "

20 " With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that. "