American Quotes

My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.

It might have been easier to retire, to say my knee couldn't handle it and let that be that. At the same time, the prospect of not being able to compete in gymnastics anymore was heartbreaking.

I'm doing four hours of gymnastics training a day, six days a week and then an extra two to three hours in a fitness center as well.

I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things too quickly and ended up re-tearing my MCL in September.

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!

I live for Pilates reformer class. I go at least three times a week. It's a great way to lengthen your muscles, stretch, and kind of relax your mind.

Gymnastics taught me everything - life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel everything: anxiety, excitement, nerves, pressure and joy.

We had a good cast and we loved each other.

Really, we don't know what to make of it except that we're delighted about it. We have all these fans thirty years later and they're still around and will probably be around for a long time to come.

It's a phenomenon that we don't really understand.

If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.

I must give an account for what I've done.

Nothing will see us through the age we're entering but high consciousness, and that comes hard. We don't have a good, modern myth yet, and we need one.

I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.

History seems to be so clumsy.

History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that.

If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities.

A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

Writing is not fun.

With 'Brick,' the style with language and the way it was shot was to create a world obviously elevated from the very first frame above a typical high school.

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those movies wore that on their sleeve.

Well, you know, we all grew up as 'Star Wars' fans.