Continents Figure Skating

Famous quotes containing the words continents, figure and/or skating:

    “Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “... only
    A figure spun on stirring of the air,
    And so, untrue.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “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)