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)
“A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.”
—Minna Antrim (1861–?)
“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)