#boarding

I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding because they thought I was no good at skiing. I was too skinny. I had terrible technique. They were saying I should be a snowboarder, and luckily, I resisted. ↗

— Bode Miller

#boarding #boarding school #coaches #good #had

I grew up skateboarding, but I don't even do that anymore. ↗

— Tom DeLonge

#even #grew #i #skateboarding #up

Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school. ↗

— Lily James

#boarding #boarding school #bubble #burst #drama

I studied with a blind teacher from about 5 until I was 16, at two different schools. From the age of 12 until 16, I was in a boarding school-which, I believe, at that time was compulsory for blind children. ↗

— George Shearing

#age #believe #blind #boarding #boarding school

For me, skateboarding is a lifestyle. I really don't know anything different. My life revolves around skating. If I wasn't a professional skateboarder, I'd still be skating every day. ↗

— Ryan Sheckler

#around #day #different #every #every day

My boarding school experience was the only thing I had strong enough feelings to write about for hundreds and hundreds of pages. I can still smell the formaldehyde of the fetal pigs in biology. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#biology #boarding #boarding school #enough #experience

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to. ↗

— Joe Strummer

#boarding school #considered #home #i #me

It was well said—by Jean Tarrou in The Plague, I think—that attendance at lectures in an unknown language will help to hone one's awareness of the exceedingly slow passage of time. I once had the experience of being 'waterboarded' and can now dimly appreciate how much every second counts in the experience of the torture victim, forced to go on enduring what is unendurable. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#torture #waterboarding #experience

Brianna dropped the skateboard in front of Sam. "Don't worry: I won't let you fall off." "Yeah? Then why did you bring the helmet?" Brianna tossed it to him. "In case you fall off. ↗

— Michael Grant

#humor #safety #skateboarding #humor

I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. ↗

— Jeremy London

#extreme sports #hockey #i #i love #like