Nadia Comaneci Quotes

People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.

Nadia Comaneci

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: romanian
  • Birth: November 12, 1961

Topics

PersonalityPeopleMeSmilingLook

Dance is a universal language, and whether you know how to dance or grew up training in dance, you have a respect for people who love to dance, and it's also visually very entertaining to watch a great dancer.

Jenna Dewan

LoveRespectGreatDanceTraining

The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.

John Stuart Mill

ThinkingLeaveMankindHalfOff

If a course needs to be in great condition to be played effectively, then the design strategy is flawed.

Tom Watson

GreatDesignStrategyCourseNeeds

When I was in sixth grade, I wanted to become a priest.

Mike Krzyzewski

BecomePriestWantedGradeSixth

I am artistic so I reserve the right to change my mind at any point. I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

LL Cool J

ChangeI AmPeopleMindNameEnjoy

Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.

Joyce Carol Oates

CommunityCultureHouseSometimes

Most men, no matter how well or badly dressed, carry overstuffed, beat up wallets that should have been replaced years ago. Why is that? Every time I see a guy take out a wallet anywhere, it looks like a piece of old melted chocolate cake-with strings.

Jonathan Carroll

TimeMenChocolateLooksDressed

I cycle every weekend. Sometimes I swim.

Devon Cajuste

WeekendSometimesSwimCycleEvery

Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.

Brian May

ChildrenHurtPoorWeakAlways

Postmodernists believe that truth is myth, and myth, truth. This equation has its roots in pop psychology. The same people also believe that emotions are a form of reality. There used to be another name for this state of mind. It used to be called psychosis.

Brad Holland

TruthPeopleMindRootsBelieve

As a child, I was aware of the widely-held attitude that the ocean is so big, so resilient that we could use the sea as the ultimate place to dispose of anything we did not want, from garbage and nuclear wastes to sludge from sewage to entire ships that had reached the end of their useful life.

Sylvia Earle

LifeAttitudeSeaOceanChildEnd

My focus has kind of been on teenagers, you know, and I think we've got a huge crisis right now in America, among our teens.

Sean Covey

FocusThinkAmericaYouKnowKind

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