Italy at The 1936 Winter Olympics - Figure Skating

Famous quotes containing the words figure and/or skating:

“The figure of the enthusiast who has just discovered jogging or a new way to fix tofu can be said to stand or, more accurately, to tremble on the threshold of conversion, as the representative American.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)

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