Skates Quotes
48 quotes by 43 authors
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Searching for funds to continue my skating career when I was 17, I called the Women's Sports Foundation in New York. The intern who answered…
— Kristi Yamaguchi
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L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness never comes, like…
— Ian Shoales
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You can't play hockey with a bald spot, so I'm hanging up the skates.
— Joe Sakic
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I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.
— Holland Taylor
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Roller-skates and disco are a lot of fun, I'm much too young and stupid to operate a gun.
— Frank Zappa
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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,…
— Bobby Orr
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If you wonder where your child left his roller skates, try walking around the house in the dark.
— Leopold Fechtner
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I don't play hockey at all. I'm not comfortable on skates.
— Ben Stiller
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Any writer who believes in the 'lucky creative accident' in writing is pushing elephants on roller skates up greased ramps.
— Leonard Bishop
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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
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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
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If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.
— Roald Dahl
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He found whole figures which represented a written word; but he never could manage to represent just the word he wanted - that word was…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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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…
— David Nicholls
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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…
— Devon Monk
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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…
— Dr. Seuss
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Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.
— John Dean
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I generally like white skates.
— Sasha Cohen
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I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
— T. J. Miller
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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…
— Gracie Gold
Who Wrote These Skates Quotes
43 authors contributed a total of 48 Skates Quotes, led by these top contributors: