Famous quotes containing the words poor and/or performer:
“It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn’t understand.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“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)