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Quotes About Skiing

People are not used to seeing skiing on water, so I can understand why they think it is fake. That's why we started using outside views: so people can see that's its real.
~ Candide Thovex
Schweitzer is where I found snowboarding; it will always have a special place in my heart and is a top-notch ski resort. It has some of the best bowl tree skiing in the world and breathtaking views of Sandpoint and Lake Pend Oreille.
~ Nate Holland
I grew up in a tiny village on top of a mountain and have been skiing and singing all my life!
~ Astrid S
Don't worry, Bill," Borkman told me. "I have Muriel and Richard in my pocket-back!" "In your back pocket—yes," I said to the crafty deerstalker on skis.
~ John Irving
a school-vacation skier is never the equal to a north-country native.
~ John Irving
the first chair headed down the mountain would be Molly's last chairlift. Willy
~ John Irving
Bromley Mountain. It was close to
~ John Irving
Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.
~ Eddie Izzard
Challenging snow is one of my favorite kinds of skiing, and I like being able to switch techniques at liberty.
~ Paul Parker
The vacation month On August 15, the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin, known as Ferragosto , is a signal for working life to come to a standstill. Families head for the beaches or go walking in the hills. Vacation villas such as this one, in the Italian Alps, are popular with Italians and tourists alike, for skiing or sightseeing vacations.
~ Unknown
It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.
~ Hermann Maier
It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport.
~ Fridtjof Nansen
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
~ Steven Wright
Skiing was for Canadians. Tobogganing was for us immigrants.
~ Mike Myers
Langlauf – cross-country skiing – at that; which isn't even proper skiing, it's just a way of tricking people into what's really exercise).
~ Unknown
We 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. { On his aunt and fellow science Lise Meitner }
~ Unknown
The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars' worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Skiing consists of wearing 3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Wait," I said. "Leo. Leo. Chicago." Then it came to me. "Leo James? Looks as though he ought to be a Nordic skiing champion? Tall, long, and blond.
~ Patricia Briggs
like We Die Alone, about the Norwegian commando who outskied an entire Nazi division,
~ Peter Heller