Torvill Quotes & Sayings

Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change. — Natalia Vodianova

If I was a complete slacker who was just doing nothing but traveling, I don't know if I would have the discipline to be productive and create this job, and on the other hand, if I was always disciplined and productive, I don't think I would have that mystical connection that lead to great work. — Karan Bajaj

Or maybe it's just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world. — Cassandra Clare

[The past] has a way of hanging around, demanding we understand it and weave it into ourselves so that we can go on. — Margaret Coel

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims. — Roberto Bolano

We can all learn that we can take full responsibility for what thoughts we are thinking and what emotional circuitry we are feeling. Knowing this and acting on this can lead us into feeling a wonderful sense of well-being and peacefulness. — Jill Bolte Taylor

I really believe that if capital doesn't come to the entrepreneurs, the entrepreneurs have no choice but to go to the capital. — Josh Kopelman

To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your capacity for future experience. As a social scientist, you have to control this rather elaborate interplay, to capture what you experience and sort it out; only in this way can you hope to use it to guide and test your reflection, and in the process shape yourself as an intellectual craftsman — C. Wright Mills

Anjelica Huston and Kelly MacDonald are both really special. Anjelica has such a fresh point of view about acting and doesn't seem jaded at all. She seems more like a student and yet she is veteran actor who really brings it. — Sam Rockwell

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser. — John Breaux

Workdays are, I imagine, rather like learning to ice-skate Torvill and Dean's The Bolero. They start and end easily enough; it's the bit in the middle that causes the pain in the arse. — Fennel Hudson

That's what I meant to say. That the forgiving was already done. — Veronica Roth

Our own State Department polls say that 80 percent of Iraqis view the United States as an unpopular occupier. — Marty Meehan

I think that with only one data point, we don't know," he told me. "But it's rare for someone to make the kind of commitment you made, and I think your willingness to take on the challenge may make you different. You're clearly not a random person, but on the other hand, I'm not sure there's anything in how you improved that is completely outside the range of what a motivated college student could do. — Joshua Foer

There is about to be a big cowboy boot in your ass if you dont shut up. — Jim Ross