Spalding Gray Quotes

For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk.

Skiing is the pleasurable part of alpinism - way more pleasurable and fun than alpine climbing.

I love skiing fast. You're going 80 to 85 m.p.h. down an icy slope, and I love it.

Skiing fast feels like complete freedom to me.

There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.

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.

Skiing in Whistler was great fun. It's an extreme environment that's very different to my own and I had never skied before, so I had to learn to take on the elements quite bravely. It was nice to try something new.

For me, personally, skiing holds everything. I used to race cars, but skiing is a step beyond that. It removes the machinery and puts you one step closer to the elements. And it's a complete physical expression of freedom.

I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.

Challenging snow is one of my favorite kinds of skiing, and I like being able to switch techniques at liberty.

I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.

That's my perfect day: going skiing.

I just love to be on my skis, skiing with my friends, just going out into the mountains and being in nature and skiing some powder. That's the best thing.

Snowboarding really is a luxury sport.

Sex, that’s meaningless, I can understand that, but dinner; that’s heavy. That’s like an hour.

Law practice is the exact opposite of sex:even when it's good, it's bad.

Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.

My ball is in a bunch of fern, A jolly place to be; An angry man is close astern- He waves his club at me. Well, let him wave-the sky is blue; Go on, old ball, we are but two-We may be down in three, Or nine-or ten-or twenty-five-It matters not; to be alive, Is good enough for me.

The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language... equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation - in four words, the emanicipation of women.

Sex has never been an obsession with me. It's just like eating a bag of crisps. Quite nice, but nothing marvellous.

The zombie sex, I have no idea. It must be like tantric sex.

I suppose I could think of a lot of things to say about the fact that I still play. But I don't really need to. I can tell you this, that I enjoy it. I still enjoy it. I like to get out in the air and I like to walk and I like to do the things that are involved in playing golf.

Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.

Après ski is my favorite sport.