Boginskaya Quotes & Sayings

I think we listen to music because we want to be changed. Music is not solely for our entertainment. Music has such tremendous power to bring joy. To me, that's our job as artists. Not happiness, not a groove, whatever. You must bring joy. I think that's the assignment. I have no doubt about it. — Bobby McFerrin

By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport. But most importantly, we are losing the beauty of our sport. We do not want gymnastics to lose what makes it so great - its artistic beauty. — Svetlana Boginskaya

There was no sign in the face of any intermediate stages in the aging process, no hint of the man of thirty or forty or fifty who had been left behind. Only adolescence and the age of sixty were represented. It was as though a seventeen-year-old had been withered and bleached by a blast of heat. — Kurt Vonnegut

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way. — C.S. Lewis

Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion. — Svetlana Boginskaya

I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I'm known as a graceful gymnast. — Svetlana Boginskaya

Free time is an illusion. It's what you get when you die and the gods reward you for a life spent working from dawn until midnight. — Tamora Pierce

Pain is inevitable, it eventually touches us all. Suffering is optional. — Sean Stephenson

I don't think many people will remember me when I retire. — Svetlana Boginskaya

In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure. — Dan Simmons