"`Ah, say that again,' she murmured. `Your voice is music.' He repeated his question. `Music,' she said dreamily; and such is the force of habit that `I don't,' she added, `know anything about music, really. But I know what I like.'"

"She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''"

"You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men."

"A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her."

"The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to bad end"

"Fate wrote her [Queen Caroline] a most tremendous tragedy, and she played it in tights."

"The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all."

"Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge."

". . . but beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied."

"Men of genius are so few that they ought to atone for their fewness by being at any rate ubiquitous."

"To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature"

"Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful"

"People who insist on telling their dreams are among the terrors of the breakfast table"

"You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men."

"No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt"

"I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul"

"There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success."

"You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself"

"Most women are not as young as they are painted."

"Nobody ever died of laughter."

"Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth."

"To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving."

"I had my best performance today. It was great and the most important thing for me."

"I'm happy because I got another medal. It's a competition and it's ice and anything can happen."

"I'm a bit disappointed in my skating, because I was prepared for this competition. That's competition. It's pressure all the time."

"Maybe somebody is thinking I'm a favorite, but it's the Olympic Games and you never know who can win."

"The other girls are so young, ... They're not our generation."

"I won't think about anything. I am just happy with the medal."

"I like all parts of the music, ... When I was on ice, I felt like I am a flamenco dancer."

"I love this pressure. It is not interesting when nobody skates well. I like it when the atmosphere is really competitive like tonight."

"I felt so bad yesterday. Today I felt better, much more comfortable. You could see it in the practice."

"I'm so surprised, and I can't find any words for it."

"She's a really, really smart woman. She understands skating, and she understands me. She knows which way to push, which way to rest."

"It was a good performance and I did everything I wanted to do."

"When I see all the small girls and all the experience I have, that explains the difference in the scores."

"It was a good beginning."

"For me this competition is not really important. It is just another step in going to Turin."

"It?s competition. I don?t want to tell you what I?m thinking."

"You will never know what will happen in the competition, but I will try to do it."

"It was a big disappointment. But it's life. It's competition. Things happen. This has happened; there's nothing I can do about it now. I'm happy to have a medal."

"That's competition. It's pressure all the time. You never know what can happen. I'm just happy what I got. There are some girls who came and competed and got 18th and 20th places. I'm happy I have something."

"It's competition. I don't want to tell you what I'm thinking."

"I am happy. I skated well. This is a competition and sometimes things don't go as you'd like them to."

"One must dare to be happy."

"We are always the same age inside."

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing."

"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."

"You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance."

"If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me."

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."