"Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew."

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Source : Interview With Peter Gambaccini, www.runnersworld.com. October 23, 2006.

Shannon Miller

#Gymnastics Quotes #Use Quotes #Body Quotes

“Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.”
“I worked in salons, where you do learn the basic sort of thing. But I didn't know anything about the kinds of things I'm doing now. I learned how to put hot-rollers in.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.”

Source : Song: At Seventeen, Album: Between the Lines, 1975
“Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.”
“He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.”
“Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope. To say this is not to mystify the process of writing but to make an image out of the intense inner concentration the writer must have to cross the chasms of the aleatory and make them the word's own, as an explorer plants a flag.”
“As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life.”
“Nothing is more natural than grief, no emotion more common to our daily experience. It's an innate response to loss in a world where everything is impermanent.”

Source : Stephen Levine (2005). “Unattended Sorrow: Recovering from Loss and Reviving the Heart”, p.3, Rodale

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