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)

    “Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from.”
    —Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Flower Belle Lee (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)