Famous quotes containing the words grand, figure and/or skating:
“The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“Good writing is a kind of skating which carries off the performer where he would not go, and is only right admirable when to all its beauty and speed a subserviency to the will, like that of walking, is added.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)