I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.

Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.

I really loved what the guys were doing more than anything, how high they jumped, how effortless it was.

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life.

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark.

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.

Skating was the vessel into which I could pour my heart and soul.

When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.

I think skating helped me find myself.

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for.

In 1968, in the midst of the tumultuous 1960s, the Olympics were much more than just another event.

The world went by, and we didn't get caught up in all the other things, because we didn't have time. We had no spare time. It was always thinking about training and focusing on what we wanted, our goals.

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.

It is in the translation that the innocence lost after the first reading is restored under another guise, since the reader is once again faced with a new text and its attendant mystery. That is the inescapable paradox of translation, and also its wealth.

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

My father believed in toughness, honesty, politeness and being on time. All very important lessons.

I agree with no one's opinion. I have some of my own.

Tall sandy blonde with sort of blue eyes skinny in places fat in others. An average gal.

Carole King's second album, 'Tapestry,' has fulfilled the promise of her first and confirmed the fact that she is one of the most creative figures in all of pop music. It is an album of surpassing personal-intimacy and musical accomplishment and a work infused with a sense of artistic purpose. It is also easy to listen to and easy to enjoy.

I'm still a reservist. We have three drilling reservists in the Senate. Senator Graham serves in the Air Force, Senator Brown serves in the Army, and I serve in the Navy.

I can't on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.

Challenging the integrity of the non proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security.

Integrity is an ecosystem.

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.

Reward the behavior you want repeated.

This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats.

As Buddha points out, you should not rely on the opinions of others for validation of your internal progression.

But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single.

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.

A priest is sent to Alaska. A bishop goes up to visit one year later. The bishop asks, How do you like it up here? The priest says, If it wasn't for my Rosary, and 2 martinis a day, I'd be lost. Bishop, would you like a martini? Yes. Rosary, get the bishop a martini!

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.

'Divergent' is a story about people who don't fit into a category - that is a big part of the message - but it's also about conformity and forcing people into these simple archetypes. At the end of the day, humans don't exist like that. We're multifaceted.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure making the music sound sweeter the wine taste richer the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'