Korolevskaya Akademia Quotes & Sayings

What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing. — Shaun White

I was perfectly calm and perfectly insane, perfectly prepared to accept what the moment had offered. Indifference of that magnitude is rare and because it can be achieved only by someone ready to let go of who he is, it demands respect. It inspires awe in those who gaze upon it. — Paul Auster

What happens when you win?
When your enemies are at your mercy: how will you act then? Compromise is the temptation of the weak; this is the test for the strong. — Salman Rushdie

You know, they say when someone keeps making excuses to say your name it means they like you. — Kiersten White

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space. — Ruth St. Denis

We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd. — Heston Blumenthal

The ones who look the most suspicious are likely innocent. It's the ones who look innocent I need to beware. — George R R Martin

My grandmother was a chemist. She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of stomach cancer. I never met my grandmother, but I carry on her name - her exact name, Eva Vertes - and I like to think I carry on her scientific passion, too. — Eva Vertes

An initial perception or impulse has an infinite number of directions it can go. — Darrell Calkins

While I was at community college, I studied industrial design because I thought maybe I'd be an automotive designer - I grew up in Detroit - and I also studied, geology because I was interested in science, a little bit. — Andrew J. Feustel

It was anything but reassuring to have to tell one's wife, in "Case of real Danger . . . fly to the Woods with our Children. — John Ferling

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished. — John Kenneth Galbraith

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. — Phyllis Diller