Olympic Winter Games

Famous quotes containing the words olympic, winter and/or games:

    “Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”
    —Joseph Heller (b. 1923)

    “The sky seemed so small that winter day,
    A dirty light on a lifeless world,
    Contracted like a withered stick.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)