Provincial Skating Rink

Famous quotes containing the words provincial and/or skating:

“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“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)