Northern Dancer Won

Famous quotes containing the words northern, dancer and/or won:

    [During the Renaissance] the Italians said, “We are one in the Father: we will go back.” The Northern races said, “We are one in Christ, we will go on.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimmer to water. The only difficulty was that after finishing the last sentence she was left with a feeling at once hollow and uncomfortably full. Exactly like indigestion.
    Jean Rhys (1894–1979)

    We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
    Samuel Butler (1835–1902)