"If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you.It's a sense of power, of command over distance and gravity, and an illusion of no longer having to move because movement is carrying you."

--

Source : Sonja Henie (1940). “Wings on my feet”

Sonja Henie

#Running Quotes #Distance Quotes #Moving Quotes

“In the end, nature is inexorable: it has no reason to hurry and, sooner or later, it takes what belongs to it. Unconsciously and inflexibly obedient to its own laws, it doesn't know art, just as it doesn't know freedom, just as it doesn't know goodness.”
“My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that just two generations after she arrived in San Antonio, one grandson would be the mayor and the other would be on his way - the good people of San Antonio willing- to the United States Congress.”
“Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.”
“The concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide has changed greatly since fossilized life began on Earth nearly 600 million years ago. In fact, there is only 1/19 as much CO2 in the air today as there was 520 million years ago. That high CO2 was hardly the recipe for disaster.”
“In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one thing remained: I don't want anybody to understand me completely. I want to go through life unknown. The blindness of others is my safety and my freedom.”

Source : Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.424, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Ive found that if you just try to make the film you want, youll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, youre going to make really boring films.”
“Iâ€™ve made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business.”
“Some pain you can distance yourself from, but a headache sits right where you live.”

You may also like:

Barbara Ann Scott
Olympic athlete
Dick Button
Olympic athlete
Dorothy Hamill
Figure Skater
Katarina Witt
Figure Skater
Kristi Yamaguchi
Figure Skater
Liberace
Pianist
Peggy Fleming
Figure Skater
Tenley Albright
Surgeon
Tyrone Power
Film actor