Figure Skating at The 1998 Winter Olympics

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

“Mining today is an affair of mathematics, of finance, of the latest in engineering skill. Cautious men behind polished desks in San Francisco figure out in advance the amount of metal to a cubic yard, the number of yards washed a day, the cost of each operation. They have no need of grubstakes.”
—Merle Colby, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.”
—Agustin Gomez-Arcos (b. 1939)