Gymnastic Quotes

#1. Wit is something more than a gymnastic trick of the intellect; true wit implies a beam of thought into the essence of a question, a flash that lights up a situation. Wit suggests the delicate but delightful play of a rapier in the hands of a master.

Arthur Lynch

#2. The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too ...

Merce Cunningham

#3. I actually sing horribly, but I used to dance pretty good. I was a gymnast, and you can usually use those gymnastic tricks with dance. Plus, they're so much fun to do. That wasn't really a big part of my career. It was just a phase.

Robert Englund

#4. There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or a Dulfer before you, relying only upon yourself, keeping a sharp eye on things, feeling the rock beneath your feet and fingertips.

Hermann Buhl

#5. Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.

Walt Whitman

#6. It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.

Plato

#8. My new shorty got a gymnastic back,
'87 emerald green on a classic Jag.
She had the cleft palate, I ordered chef's salad;
She had the club foot, with that little arm,
I couldn't help but laugh ... she ordered Chicken Parm.

Action Bronson

#9. I think the scores for Olympic gymnastics are affected by what countries the judge and the gymnast are from. That's wrong. That type of political pandering isn't meant for gymnastic Olympic events. It's meant for the Supreme Court.

Craig Ferguson

#10. Register my money, for the money gymnastic. Cause I make it flip now they be lookin all nasty.

Nicki Minaj

#11. So, rap has that quality, for youth anyway; it's a kind of blues element. It's physical, almost gymnastic. It speaks to you organically. Rap grows out of what young people really are today, not only black youth, but white - everybody.

Archie Shepp

#12. Edmondson has incisively discussed the ways college campuses have grown akin to upscale retirement homes for the very young, where the promise of intellectually demanding courses ranks far below the lure of new gymnastic facilities.

Maureen Corrigan

#13. I started taking gymnastic classes when I was 3 years old.

Shawn Johnson

#14. The gymnastic events are really what I tune into the Summer Olympics for.

Johnny Weir

#15. Bull-fluff. You didn't break up with a girlfriend of a whole year because of stuff.

Gemma Halliday

#16. Melbourne said I'll put it in my own words: the time your friends need you is when they're wrong, Jean Louise. They don't need you when they're right - " "What

Harper Lee

#17. It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.

Robert Baden-Powell

#18. Even before phones and e-mail this county could spread a story faster than a hooker could spread K-Y Jelly," Tessa added with a perfectly straight face.

Linda McMaken

#19. America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.

Sigmund Freud

#20. The subtlest lie of all is the full truth.

Michael Moorcock

#21. I like watching a man boss everybody around. It's so sexy

Robin Tunney

#22. Made up, as one makes up the better part of life ... making oneself up; ... creating an exquisite amusement ...

Virginia Woolf

#23. Birdy Edwards is here. I am Birdy Edwards!

Arthur Conan Doyle

#24. Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.

Hedy Lamarr

#25. The greatest achievement of humanity is the human spirit.

Kamal Ravikant