Top 1200 Skating On Thin Ice Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

I was a little tiger. I loved skating. You couldn't get me out of my skates. As many times as I could go to the rink, I was there.

Skating taught me to set a goal and to block out other things and just focus on this one thing.

The main thing for me now is figure skating, which I intend to devote more than one year.

Maybe love was no match for ice...but Piper had used it to wake a metal dragon. Mortals did superhuman feats in the name of love all the time. Mothers lifted cars to save their children. And Piper was more than just a mortal. She was a demigod. A hero. The ice melted on her blade. Her arm steamed under Khione's grip. 'Still underestimating me,' Piper told the goddess. 'You really need to work on that.

Whenever I put myself out there on the line, skating against other people, I simply want to win.

Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down. And we have nuclear ********* weapons.

When I was a kid. I had traveled the world by the time I was 13 years old because of all the competitions I did for inline skating.

I relate really well to individuals who have a career and explore other adventures outside of skating. That, to me, is fascinating.

Yes, I am the Olympic champion, but this is not the end of it. I want all the gold that there is out there, everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.

I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon—they were coming home from high school—but I had no time for thoughts like that…So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

That's what really makes great skating competitions. When you have two top skaters in good form giving superb performances.

I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying.

I started skating when I was 2 years old because of my older sister Natasha was a skater, and I wanted to be just like her!

When I was skating I felt I represented not just my family and the people who helped me make it to that point, but also New York and the country.

I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.

I wasn't nervous at all. I applied the same amount of efforts to the love scenes as I did to the skating and the acting and everything else.

My Olympic moment from the individual event was that I was really able to enjoy my skating, and so that meant a lot to me, and I didn't portray that accurately.

It's nice to go skating in a parking lot and hang out with people who aren't talking about their next movie role.

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.

I think I sound like the apocalypse destroying the Earth to the sounds of trumpets skating across the heavens played by angels.

It just comes kind of naturally to me to take something and try and make it relatable and interesting to someone who doesn't know everything about skating.

The different colors [of water] again refer to the fact that those little jacks, if you want to call them jacks, those little pyramids, can be packed together in all different ways. And depending on how they're packed together.If you Google blue ice, as I did just while your caller was asking his question, you see some beautiful pictures of ice covering a lake.

I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded with other people and their speech, friends I believed I was devoted to, people whose lives I can simply guess at now, that it gives me the impression I am simply a collection of them, that they all existed for themselves, but had inadvertently formed me, then vanished. But, what: Should I have been expected to create my own self, out of nothing, out of thin, thin air and alone?

Me, I always wanted frost power.” “Frost power?” “Yeah.” Seth gestured dramatically toward my coffee table. “If we’re talking superhero abilities. If I had frost power, I could wave my hand, and suddenly that whole thing would be covered in ice.” “Not frost?” “Same difference.” “How would frost and/or ice power help you fight crime?” “Well, I don’t know that it would. But it’d be cool.

Being from Detroit, I often went to the roller skating rink. I can skate backwards, forwards, and even twirl on skates, LOL!

I love the classic side of skating, making it look like a full program and not just technical based.

A lot of the figure skating costumes are kind of revealing, so I think it's nice to have glowing, soft, smooth skin.

Skating was something I really wanted to do; my parents knew nothing about it. They said they'd support me as long as I was trying my hardest and enjoying it.

Skating has so many styles. Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle.

That's what we love to do and I think our skating's at it's best when we do that: when we draw people in and hopefully make them feel something.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

What our generation hopefully is doing is not believing in that so-called bad luck that Canada has with figure skating at the Olympics.

Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are devoured by different kinds of worms according as we are fat or thin? In fat corpses one species of maggot is found, the rhizophagus, while thin corpses are patronized only by the phora. The latter is evidently the aristocrat, the fastidious gourmet which turns up its nose at a heavy meal of copious breasts and juicy at bellies. Just think, there is no perfect equality, even in the manner in which we feed the worms.

I'm so proud to be an Army brat, but it was not an easy life. Moving around so much, skating was that one constant thing I had to hold on to.

Once I retired from skating, never in my wildest dreams did I think I would have the chance to come back to the Olympics.

It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport.

I was an ambidextrous child, and the symmetry of roller skating was a welcome respite from my awkwardness with physical activities that involved a ball or a racket.

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.

Some skaters, they live for skating, and they are home-schooled. I'm very lucky my parents let me go to school and have a normal life.

It's very clear that global climate change is occurring on earth, but it's also been very clear that that has always happened on earth. We've always had a changing climate on earth. We all know about ice ages. We know when our continent was covered with ice sheets. We know glaciers come and they go. It puzzles me that people forget that.

...trying to predict whether global warming will moderate the next ice age is not only impossible but irrelevant. It doesn't help us get through the next few centuries. And one can only imagine our future, shivering, ice age descendants cursing us for leaving them no fossil fuel to create a global warming "greenhouse" effect when one is really needed.

I think the most remarkable thing about ice, in my opinion at least, is that it occurs in many, many, many different forms. Most solids occur in typically one or maybe two or three different forms, and ice has approximately 15 different crystal forms, as well as two forms that are called amorphous, which means without any shape at all.

Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot every time.

When you're in a sport like speed skating where the clock gives you the results, there is always a faster goal or a personal best to beat.

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

We got skate parks in different states, but me skating? Nah, I'm too gangster; I can't rock with it. But I watch it.

I want to do some skating and then go to law school in three years. I'm enjoying it and I'm going to see where it takes me.

It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely.

We talk of globalization, and how much money is needed for the education of children in the world, their liberation and rehabilitation just $9 billion which is four days of military expense. Just four days. Nine billion dollars is nothing. But what Americans spent on ice cream just 20 percent of this. One fifth of what you spend on ice creams could bring the children out of the clutches of their masters and put them to school.

In skating, I knew that 2014 was going to be it for me. I had my heart set on trying baseball again after.

I instantly connected with the sport and I have fond memories of growing up on my skating rink that my dad made for us in our backyard.

I think I'm a born athlete. My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

It was always so nice to step away from figure skating and school with hockey. To this day I'm still a huge fan.

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.

I roller skated when I was younger, but when you're on a track that's slanted and you're with other people all skating in a pack, it's a whole different sport.

We're very passionate about figure skating but it's a huge world out there and there's a lot of opportunity, and it'll be so much fun to see where we go.