Kostner Quotes & Sayings

People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable. — Dean Koontz

I do my job. I do what I'm paid to do and I show up and I'm always prepared. I prepare by learning the text so well that when I show up, I'm relaxed and focused for the part. Now, whether that's good or bad I don't know. Whatever I'm going to say is going to sound very egocentric and self-centered so I'd better shut up. — Anthony Hopkins

Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the empire of vegetation to the liberation of oxygen. — Ferdinand Von Mueller

Well, let me tell you, gentlemen, the games of the devil are not restricted to those confined to hell. Others can play them. — Robert Ludlum

Bagheera to see if the Panther was angry too, and Bagheera's eyes were as hard as jade stones. "Thou hast been with the Monkey People
the gray apes
the people without a law
the eaters of everything. That is great shame." "When Baloo hurt my head," said Mowgli (he was still on his back), "I went away, and the gray — Rudyard Kipling

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations. — Henri Poincare

It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds. — Paula Scher

I know that I am the kind of person that gets a little bit more nervous than other skaters, but that's because I care for my skating very much. I take all my emotions with me. I can't go out and say 'Now, this is just my job.' I really care. — Carolina Kostner

A disaster wrapped in a catastrophe sitting on a pile of misfortune. — Tracy Brogan

The apple trees were in full bloom, the scent enveloping the party in a heady, almost palpable mist, and pale petals rocked on the glittering surface of the water and lay in white mats against the banks. — Pauline Gedge

I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others. — Carolina Kostner

Skating isn't about the medals or the results. I love what I do. It's much more fun to win, but you cannot every time. — Carolina Kostner

I'm determined to go right to the end to find justice. Of course I am not happy, I feel very bitter and disappointed. — Carolina Kostner

Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean. — Michelle M. Pillow

Sure, good things can go badly wrong. Nevertheless, there's always another day. — Joanna Lumley

Yu Na Kim, Mao Asada, Carolina Kostner - all these girls can do triple-triples in their sleep, and they have the skating skills and the spins and the rest of the technical jumps. So I have to have that as well if I want to be able to call myself 'competitive' against them. And when I say 'competitive,' I mean I want to win. — Ashley Wagner

I could sit here in the tribunes and watch Michelle Kwan skate for hours ... — Carolina Kostner

It's only when an artist becomes a master that they are fully able to express themselves. — Carolina Kostner

The only Sundance [2011] film about cults that could actually have life as a cult film, THE WOODS has the greatest comic insight into why our current culture might inspire a search for meaning in the first place. — Karina Longworth

As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're going to do. — Juan Antonio Bayona

I can't work on something if I don't believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work harder and spend more energy. I feel lucky that I was born with this passion. — Carolina Kostner