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)
“One figure can sometimes add up to a lot.”
—Wesley Ruggles, U.S. screenwriter. Tira (Mae West)
“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)