Figure Skating Quotes - Page 6

• After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

  Barbara Cartland

  Funny, Birthday, Women

  Quoted in Times (London), 6 Oct. 1993.

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• I was trying to figure out what to do next, I'd been accumulating ideas for productivity tools - software people could use every day, particularly to help organize their lives.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Ideas, People, Trying

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• And by the same token, I appreciate math, because I can't do math. If I have to read a map or figure out the tip on a restaurant bill, I might start to tear up a little bit.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Math, Appreciate, Tears

  Interview with Chris Neumer, www.stumpedmagazine.com.

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• What kind of respect do I get? ... Just because I'm a physical player, it's O.K. to come at me and do what you want? Hey, it's a hockey game. It's not figure skating. You know what? I can take a hit and I can give a hit. I don't care who it is. No one gets a free ride out there. I don't get a free ride, and no one gets a free ride from me.

  Scott Stevens

  Hockey, Player, Games

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• Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

  Alice Hoffman

  Art, Book, Helping

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• When I was younger, I always dreamed of being a legend, to be remembered in figure skating.

  Michelle Kwan

  Skating, Legends, Figures

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It took me a long time to figure out how to act, and how to conduct myself in the business so I could get what I felt I needed to support my potential and give them what they wanted.

  Harrison Ford

  Long, Giving, Support

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• Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

  Erma Bombeck

  Fashion, Design, Literature

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• I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.

  John Astin

  Thinking, Ghost, Figures

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• The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

  John Cusack

  Office, Dollars, Film

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• Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Beautiful, Beach, Community

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• I'm higher than I expected.

  Veronik Mallet

  Higher, Expected

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• I had that in Sochi, then this year I got plantar fasciitis in my right foot. That's what has been really bugging me. It's a lot of scar tissue on the bottom of my right foot and (I feel it) every time when I pick for a flip or a Lutz. But mostly when I land on it, I can feel it the most. It's still not healed, it's still bugging me here, but I'm doing what I can.

  Gabrielle Daleman

  Years, Land, Feet

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• Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

  Claude Pepper

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

  Samuel Richardson

  Children, Educational, Would Be

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

  Dennis Rodman

  Funny, Sports, School

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• The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

  Charles Colson

  Stories, Next, Firsts

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• You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

  Andrew Weil

  Figures, Experiments

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• In figure skating, your body can only last for so long. I can't be 50 and trying to skate but I can be 50 and be in fashion, so I have to look to my future and what I want to achieve.

  Johnny Weir

  Fashion, Long, Trying

  "Olympic Figure Skater Johnny Weir Wants A Career In Fashion!". Yahoo! Sports Interview, hollywoodlife.com. February 19, 2010.

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• Very good. It was perfect.

  Veronik Mallet

  Perfect, Very Good

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• Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

  Harrison Ford

  Tunnels, Light, Rejection

  "Life lessons 9 successful people learned from failing" by Erica Murphy, www.businessinsider.com. July 20, 2015.

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• I feel great. I'm right there for the top two. I know my long is a very strong program and I've had lots of success with it, so I feel confident going into the long. Just fix up that loop.

  Alaine Chartrand

  Strong, Two, Long

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• There's more coming tomorrow than there was today. Quite a few people coming from Ottawa to watch. There were still a lot of people out there today. Some coming from farther tomorrow.

  Alaine Chartrand

  People, Watches, Ottawa

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• The last two years, nationals have been close to home for me, so I've had big family support from friends and club support. Especially last year in Ottawa, I had a whole section my grandpa got for all my family, and the skating club (supported me). I feel like I'm a veteran at this now.

  Alaine Chartrand

  Home, Years, Two

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• My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

  Debi Thomas

  Mother, Ice, Skating

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