Break Quote by Mrs. Patrick Campbell

I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

— Debi Thomas

You see figure skaters fall all the time. It's the way you pick yourself back up and keep going.

— Michelle Kwan

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

— Franklin P. Jones

“Sometimes, being on top just means you have a long way to fall.”

— Anonymous

Figure skating, especially the longer performances, are such a feat. It requires so much stamina and is so beautiful.

— Gus Kenworthy

That's the thing about ice skating, you can just fall awkwardly like that.

— Chesney Hawkes

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

— Henry David Thoreau

“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…

— Carol Goodman

“Toppling sounds like it jumped from a tall building and landed gracefully on is g.”

— Edmond Manning

In speed skating, we want to have the strongest, most powerful lower half of the body and don't want to have any weight on…

— Eddy Alvarez

He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.

— Alan Ayckbourn

There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen.

— Siouxsie Sioux