Ice Skating Quotes

“The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter.”
― Dave Barry

“A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.”
― George Bernard Shaw, Advice to a Young Critic

“Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Dance is the timeless interpretation of life.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Don't breathe to survive; dance and feel alive.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“DANCE – Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“I-"Fuck. "Well, I am angry at you, Nathan."
"Good."
"So fucking angry."
"Perfect.”
― Hannah Grace, Icebreaker

“Dance is the ritual of immortality.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance and not breath.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Make dance the mission every moment seeks to accomplish.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Francesca had grown up watching me, like I'd grown up watching Sheila. She said I was inspiring, but what had I inspired? There was no joy left in her, no light. Those smiles were a mask, concealing a molten core of grasping ambition.

I wanted to shake her by the shoulders and tell her it wasn't too late. She could wake up. She could realize there was more to life than winning.

Happiness couldn't be won. It couldn't be hung around our necks while a crowd of thousands cheered. It wasn't a prize, something we had to suffer and toil to earn. If we wanted happiness, we had to create it ourselves. Not in one shining moment on a medal stand, but every single day, over and over again.

I could have told Francesca all that, but it wouldn't have mattered. She'd have to learn for herself, like I did.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Heath hesitated. I watched the warring desires skirmish on his face. A part of him longed to surrender to my curiosity; another part wanted to keep defending the barriers he'd built up to protect himself. I couldn't force him. I couldn't rush him. He had to be the one to tear down the walls, brick by brick - and whenever he was ready, I'd be waiting on the other side.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at the stage and with every step you take beneath your feet heaven moves. That is the power of dance.”
― Shah Asad Rizvi

“Zitner said hell would freeze over before something like that happened. Harold had a brief image of Adolf Hitler and Judas Iscariot handing out ice-skates and went on heaving sandbags.”
― Stephen King, It

“The world stopped spinning. The wind paused in a spell of meditation. My heart sped past the sound barrier. The moment was so perfect that it couldn’t be contained by science. Magic shimmered all around us.”
― Lindsey Lanza, A Little Magic

“Heath knew me when I was a gangly little girl with bloody kneecaps and prairie grass in my hair. He'd seen me sobbing and weak and shaking with helpless rage. He knew my pressure points. He knew how to provoke me.

Garrett had never known me as Kat Shaw from Nowhere, Illinois. I could leave her behind, as abruptly and heartlessly as Heath had left me. With Heath, I could be myself. But with Garrett, I could be someone better.

And if Heath wanted to see me again? He could watch me on television winning goddamn gold medals with Garrett Lin.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“Katarina Shaw was in the building, and that bitch had come to win.”
― Layne Fargo, The Favorites

“I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.”
― Debi Thomas

“Pair skating was about unity, about trust, timing, anticipation, and synchronization. It was about two people almost becoming one, but still somehow maintaining their individuality.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“So he had no plans to defy gravity. He planned to murder gravity and leave it's corpse in a ditch.”
― Anne Werner, Grades of Execution

“I grabbed hold of the altar rail to keep from falling, and then I couldn't seem to let go of it. It was so cold-the cold going right through me, taking my strength away. You know you see skaters on an ice rink, clinging to the side because they're scared to move out onto the ice? That's what I must have looked like. I just leaned against the rail, with my head spinning, and people screaming and running all
around me.”
― Mike Carey, Vicious Circle