Many skiers tend to be philosophers. It probably has something to do with spending all that time on the mountains. Here are some of the most inspiring and silly ski quotes.
There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor. Lord Mancroft, A Chinaman in the Bath, 1974
In the nineteenth century, Fritjof Nansen wrote that skiing washes civilization clean from our minds by dint of its exhilarating physicality. By extension, I believe that snow helps strip away the things that don’t matter. It leaves us thinking of little else but the greatness of nature, the place of our souls within it, and the dazzling whiteness that lies ahead.”
― Charlie English
What does dopamine do? creates feelings of love and euphoria. How do we get our brains to create more? Drugs, massage, and or sex. Boil it down and it’s all just dopamine. The good news is that you can also get more dopamine pumping through your brain by skiing fast…”
― Kaya McLaren, How I Came to Sparkle Again
Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.
Spalding Gray
Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough…. I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding. ~Dave Barry
During a snowstorm, billions of geometrically perfect snowflakes pile one on top of the other like the most delicate house of cards ever made. The foam on a cappuccino or the head on your favorite ale is typically about 20% liquid, while powder snow can be as little as 3% liquid and is often about 5 to 7 per cent in the Columbia Mountains.
While skiing the lightest powder, the stuff ski guides call cold smoke, the force of passing through it with such vilolence, relative to the fragile structure, creates enough displacement through the snow to cause snow crystals to lift from the surface well ahead of the skier. – Bugaboo Dreams
Here in the deep powder snow you don’t hear yourself ski. You don’t hear your long turns or your short turns. You just float. The faster you go, the better. The less you struggle, the better. You move through the deep light snow, through the deep snow with some crust on it, through the deep snow with some wind in it.” – Jacques Labrie – Town and Country
Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about taking risks. Skiers make the best lovers because they don’t sit in front of a television like couch potatoes. They take a risk and they wiggle their behinds. They also meet new people on the ski lift.
– Ruth Westheimer –