German Figure Skating

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

“Some of us prefer Austrian voices risen in song to ugly German threats.”
—Ernest Lehman (b. 1920)

“... 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)