Skis Quotes - Page 5

• Ever since Richard Nixon walloped George McGovern in the presidential election of 1972, political pundits have treated as a truism the proposition that liberals are out of step with the rest of the nation, and therefore all but unelectable outside the precincts of the Northeast -- give or take a college town here or a ski resort there. During the course of every presidential election for the past forty years now, Republicans have sought to wield the word liberal as if it were a six-gauge shotgun.

  Eric Alterman

  Past, College, Years

  Eric Alterman (2008). “Why We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals”, p.10, Penguin

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• I think one of the beauties so far of the so-called Spirit of Seattle is there aren't any leaders, pop stars, or guru figures that everyone else is falling in line with and following. No [Nelson] Mandela, Havel, or Subcomandante Ski Mask riding in on a white horse and everybody else just wanting to follow them to the promised land. We're stitching it together and doing it ourselves.

  Jello Biafra

  Horse, Stars, Fall

  Interview with Jodi Vander Molen, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. February 1, 2002.

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• If you spend 10,000 hours on the bunny slope, you're never going to win the World Cup. You've got to challenge yourself, ski the double blacks, go out when it's blowin' and snowin' as well as when it's sunny and smooth.

  Bob Lefsetz

  Winning, Challenges, World

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• Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.

  Nick Goepper

  Midwest, Landfills, Trash

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• There's one reason why [Presidents' Day] is a holiday. It had nothing to do with our country deciding that we wanted to show reverence for our presidents, Lincoln, Washington, or all of them. Nothing to do with that. The ski industry wanted a three-day weekend.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Holiday, Weekend

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• When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single.

  Scott Weiland

  Writing, Opportunity, People

  "Scott Weiland's new solo LP is a 'Hodgepodge' inspired by marital woes and brother's death" by Chris Harris, www.mtv.com. November 10, 2008.

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• I go scuba diving. I ski. Watch movies. I take a week of silence every three months in the wilderness. And, besides, I have fun all the time anyway.

  Deepak Chopra

  Fun, Silence, Three

  Source: www.januarymagazine.com

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• I dont play golf or tennis, I dont ski, I dont snowboard. If you love what you do, you never get enough of it.

  Frankie Valli

  Golf, Play, Tennis

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• I do celebrity ski races all over the world.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Race, World

  "Traveling with the Stars: Buzz Aldrin". Interview with Kelly Carter, abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2009.

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• I realized that if I went snowboarding, you can't think of anything else when you're snowboarding. You can't hesitate or think about anything other than not falling off and breaking your neck. If you want a holiday where you're not gonna think about work and you're not gonna think about anything, snowboarding is the best way to do it. Or skiing, I guess. I don't ski, so I don't know.

  Simon Pegg

  Fall, Holiday, Thinking

  "Simon Pegg on George Romero's phone call and holding Carrie Fisher in his arms". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. April 10, 2015.

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• We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.

  Adam Sandler

  Lakes, Squares, Gnarly

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• It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.

  Hugh Laurie

  Relax, Switzerland, Littles

  Hugh Laurie (1998). “The Gun Seller”, p.222, Simon and Schuster

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• Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Blue, University Degrees, Games

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• Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

  Roland Joffe

  Land, Watches, Good Coaches

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• Most craft give a nod, however brief and unfriendly, towards beauty. Vogon ships did not nod towards beauty. They pulled on ski masks and mugged beauty in a dark alley They spat in the eye of beauty and bludgeoned their wait through the notions of aesthetics and aerodynamics. Vogon cruisers did not so much travel through space as defile it and toss it aside.

  Eoin Colfer

  Eye, Dark, Aerodynamics

  Eoin Colfer (2009). “And Another Thing...”, Hyperion

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• I left the clinic in a daze that had nothing to do with my head injury. Clear up in a week or so? How could Dr. Olendzki speak so lightly about this? I was going to look like a mutant for Christmas and most of the ski trip. I had a black eye. A freaking black eye. And my mother had given it to me.

  Richelle Mead

  Mother, Eye, Black

  Richelle Mead (2008). “Frostbite: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.48, Penguin

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• It's late, I'm tired, and your cigarettes are giving me a headache," I growled. "I suppose that's fair." He drew in on the cigarette and let out the smoke. "Some women think they make me look sexy." "I think you smoke them so you have something to do while thinking up your next witty line." He choked on the smoke, caught between inhaling and laughing. "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.

  Richelle Mead

  Sexy, Witty, Tired

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• At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

  Michael Haneke

  Jumping, Giving, Flight

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• Amy was profoundly shocked. "A little over an hour ago, our bus was attacked by three men in ski masks. They definitely knew me, and probably Dan, too. We fought them off, but it could've gone either way." "Like if they'd used a cookie truck instead of a gas tanker," Dan added. "Nobody's scared of Oreos.

  Gordon Korman

  Men, Three, Oreos

  Gordon Korman, Scholastic Multi-Platform, (2011). “The 39 Clues: Cahills vs. Vespers Book 1: The Medusa Plot”, p.29, Scholastic Inc.

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• It is odd, the twists that life will sometimes take. The ewe that you think will give birth with ease dies bringing forth a two-headed lamb. Or the ski trail that you have been told is treacherous, you navigate easily.

  Edith Pattou

  Thinking, Two, Giving

  Edith Pattou (2014). “North Child”, p.79, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the mountain like ermine, fabulous feather- light powder coaxing me to flee the confines of my room, brave the mostly plowed road up to the closest ski resort. To run from the cloying silence connected Mom and Dad, into encompassing stillness far away from city dirt and noise Far above suburban gridlock. Far beyond the grasp of home.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mom, Running, Dad

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• Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Jog. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're yours, Craig. You deserve them because you chose them. You could have left them all behind but you chose to stay here. So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live. Live.

  Ned Vizzini

  Basketball, Running, Real

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• Hey,” the cabbie yelled. “How’s about a tip?” “You bet-ski,” Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her. “Don’t kiss strange men in Penn Station.

  Libba Bray

  Kissing, Men, Long

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• I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.

  Marcia Gay Harden

  Stars, Night, Lakes

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• I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Successful, Water, Trying

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