"All those hours spent alone on the rink is where a skater's strength comes from. That's where a standing ovation starts and if you don't want to be there, it is going to show. Nothing you dreamed about is going to happen if you forget why you started in the first place. You have to skate with you heart. Before anyone can believe in you, you have to believe in yourself."

-- Kurt Browning

#Believe Quotes #Heart Quotes #Ovation Quotes

“The benefits of medical research are real - but so are the potential horrors of genetic engineering and embryo manipulation. We devise heart transplants, but do little for the 15 million who die annually of malnutrition and related diseases. Our cleverness has grown prodigiously - but not our wisdom.”

Source : Letter to Professor Carlos Chagas, February 24, 1983.
“The only hope for healing is to offer a better form of ecstasy, to upgrade so the addict will give up the stupid one.”
“I always, always want to make people laugh. In every situation. Even when it's inappropriate.”

Source : "The funniest woman you've never heard of" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2007.
“The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives them a sense of pride in their own civilization because of the prestige that science fhas in the present day world. It is furthermore a testament to the way Islam was able to cultivate various sciences extensively without becoming alienated from the Islamic world view and without creating a science whose application would destroy the world of nature and the harmony that must exist between man and the natural environment.”
“But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill.”

Source : Francis Thompson (2002). “Poems of Francis Thompson”, p.13, A&C Black
“I've done movies where I've had to cast actors and teach them to rap, and cast rappers and teach them to act.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.”

Source : William Wharton (1980). “Birdy”, Avon Books
“When I came to Hollywood, I spoke no English - except nobody bullied me. Every day, I had nothing to do except training in English, to keep talking.”

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