Compulsories Quotes

#1. Had my dream again where I'm making love, and the Olympic judges are watching. I'd nailed the compulsories, so this is it, the finals. I got a 9.8 from the Canadians, a perfect 10 from the Americans, and my mother, disguised as an East German judge, gave me a 5.6. Must have been the dismount.

Harry Burns

#2. Never quit. My book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, was turned down by 33 publishers. It's since sold millions of copies.

Jack Canfield

#3. If you can keep going and never give up, ultimately you will get something that you really want.

Stephen Chow

#4. '30 Rock' is probably one of my favorite shows. It's just joke after joke after joke.

Alison Brie

#5. For there are fashions in myth, and the world-conquering West of the nineteenth century needed a philosophy of life in which realpolitik - victory for the tough people who face the bleak facts - was the guiding principle. Thus the bleaker the facts you face, the tougher you seem to be.

Alan W. Watts

#6. I imagine them very clearly and then attempt to describe what I can see. Sometimes I draw them for my own amusement! (talking about her characters and scenes)

J.K. Rowling

#7. So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!

Edgar Bergen

#8. For all of her influence on popular culture, and the remarkable performances she left behind, perhaps Farrah Fawcett's greatest legacy was her raw, intimate, honest portrait of a woman fighting for her life - against cancer.

Alana Stewart

#9. If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

Charles Mengel Allen