Quotes by Skating On Thin Ice If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance. Anita Shreve skating-on-thin-ice dance might It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep. Jostein Gaarder pirouettes skating-on-thin-ice water Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks. Mrs. Patrick Campbell skating-on-thin-ice break want Civilisation, the orderly world in which we live, is frail. We are skating on thin ice. There is a fear of a collective disaster. Terrorism, genocide, flu, tsunamis. Zygmunt Bauman skating-on-thin-ice flu world