Skis Quotes - Page 4

• The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Shoes, Snow

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.547, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.

  Sarah Vowell

  Nice, Slave, Abraham

  Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Adrian Ivashkov: "Rose Hathaway, I can't wait to see you again. If you're this charming while tired and annoyed and this gorgeous while bruised and in ski clothes, you must be devastating at your peak." Rose Hathaway: "If by 'devastating' you mean that you should fear for your life, then yeah. You're right.

  Richelle Mead

  Tired, Mean, Clothes

  Michelle Rowen, Richelle Mead (2011). “Vampire Academy: The Ultimate Guide”, p.38, Penguin

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• I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.

  Yuichiro Miura

  Want, Height, Meter

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• I love the cowbell. I think it's awesome. My family got the cowbell app on their iPhones. It's a classic part of ski racing.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Thinking, Iphone, Racing

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• Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there.

  Ian Dunbar

  Dog, Hurt, Fun

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• I'm a writer-director-actor, which I've always kind of enjoyed. I compared it to the Olympic biathlon. "Not only can he cross-country ski, but he's a terrific marksman as well." I want people to say, "You mean that writer performed a tracheotomy?" That's right, I do everything.

  Harold Ramis

  Country, Mean, People

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, believermag.com. March 1, 2006.

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• The English have loudly and openly told the world that skis and dogs are unusable in these regions and that fur clothes are rubbish. We shall see — we shall see.

  Roald Amundsen

  Dog, Clothes, Fur

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• We [Frisch and Lise Meitner] walked up and down in the snow, I on skis and she on foot (she said and proved that she could get along just as fast that way), and gradually the idea took shape that this was no chipping or cracking of the nucleus but rather a process to be explained by Bohr's idea that the nucleus was like a liquid drop; such a drop might elongate and divide itself.

  Otto Robert Frisch

  Ideas, Feet, Snow

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• I would love to rent a little cottage or cabin in Colorado and learn to ski or snowboard. And on the warmer side, I also want to rent a house in Hawaii and learn to surf!

  Karlie Kloss

  House, Colorado, Cabins

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• Burns, has spent years exploring the many avenues for adventure and fun in San Diego. The fact that you can experience the desert, snow, mountains and ocean in the course of a day has always been amazing to me. If you are really motivated, you can snow ski, surf, take a mountain hike, and race dune buggies all in one weekend, .. I grew up here and want to showcase San Diego to the world. I love San Diego.

  Robert Burns

  Fun, Ocean, Adventure

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• At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get much longer vacations. We chose to have more stuff, the stuff sold to us through those beckoning adjectives-bigger, better, faster: Jet Skis, extra cars, second homes, motor homes, towering slab TVs, if not the time to enjoy them or to enjoy less commodified pleasures.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Home, Vacation, Car

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• Motorboat to heaven, baby's got the key. Tell me, how am I supposed to get in close back here on these water skis?

  John Hiatt

  Baby, Keys, Water

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• I like speed, so I like taking the jet skis out and hitting the water, or hitting the lake. In the winter, unfortunately, I used to ski a lot but I haven't been able to ski in the past few years because thank God I've been working, so that's a good reason not to.

  Laz Alonso

  Winter, Past, Lakes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Teaching, Adventure, Soldier

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• If it's cross-country ski season, I'll be out doing that, or snowshoeing up in Quebec. In my California home, I go to the local Y and I like doing yoga. It's been hugely beneficial to me in injury avoidance.

  Neil Peart

  Country, Yoga, Home

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• There are times when one certain snow condition is great for one particular brand of skis.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Snow, Certain, Brands

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• I donate money to the existing foundation that funds the US Ski Team kids.

  Picabo Street

  Team, Kids, Foundation

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• The craziest thing is walking down the streets of New York and people recognizing me and asking for my photo. It has been pretty wild. I am used to getting spotted in ski towns, but I never thought it would happen in a place like this.

  Nick Goepper

  New York, People, Asking

  "Sochi: Olympic Medal-Winning Skier Nick Goepper Talks Twitter, Tinder, Newfound Fame" by Debbie Emery, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 20, 2014.

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• I'm pretty well-rounded. I can do most of my tricks left and right, in both directions. I try to be smooth and confident. But it's still developing. I'm still trying to find my own personal touch in the way I ski.

  Nick Goepper

  Trying, Way, Smooth

  "A conversation with Olympic freestyle skier Nick Goepper". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• My first job ever was working a ski lift when I was 16. I also worked at a garden center, which I loved. I did that for two and a half years.

  Sara Canning

  Jobs, Garden, Years

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• The only mental games in ski racing is the mental game against yourself. Is the whole goal of life preserving your life as long as you can? No. The goal is to enjoy your life, challenge yourself, to sometimes make stupid decisions-which are sometimes fun and sometimes idiotic and sometimes just a big fat mistake you regret.

  Bode Miller

  Fun, Regret, Mistake

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• Writing the opening lines of a story is a bit like starting to ski at the steepest part of a hill. You must have all your skills under control from the first instant.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Writing, Skills, Stories

  Marion Dane Bauer (1996). “Our Stories: A Fiction Workshop for Young Authors”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.

  Bode Miller

  Racing, Danger, Consequence

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• Canada has become trouble recently ... It's always the worst Americans who go there ... We could have taken them over so easy. But I only want the western part, with the ski areas, the cowboys, and the right wingers. They're the only good parts of Canada.

  Ann Coulter

  Taken, Cowboy, Want

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