Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

Charles Dickens

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

David Brenner

I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.

Agnes de Mille

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

Charles Lamb

I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!

Charles Lamb

I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

Charles Lamb

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

Bessie Smith

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

Carl Jung

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.

Alan Rickman

When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.

Alan Moore

Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.

Chinua Achebe

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Audre Lorde

When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

Carrie Ann Inaba

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.

Charlaine Harris

I’d never seen anything like it. First a trial, then a few murders, then dancing. Life goes on. Or, in this case, death continues.

Charles Baudelaire

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

Alexa Vega

I just feel so sexy when I'm salsa dancing and wearing the salsa clothes. I love dancing, and the salsa is just so sexy.

William Shakespeare

I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.

Al Pacino

All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

Mitchell Baker

There are dancers and painters and writers who pursued that whether or not they are paid for it. There are a lot of technologists who are the same.

Agnes Varda

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

Caity Lotz

I was a dancer before I was an actress, so I've always been someone who likes to communicate from my body and movement.

Ed Sheeran

If I ever have any back-up dancers, I want the penguins from Madagascar.

Bobby Orr

I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!

Billy Eichner

I'm not much of a dancer.

James Mooney

At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes.

Chenzira Kahina

It's not mechanical. People just let go. The drummers are animated. Their hands reflect every gesture the dancers do. There are a lot of quick steps with the feet, shoulders, waist, hips and breasts.