Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

Alvin Ailey

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

Before I was an actor I was a break dancer, one of those street performers you see. I guess my introduction into the professional world of performing was a stint as back up dancer for Lionel Richie and I performed at the closing ceremony at the '84 Olympics.

Anne Lamott

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

Andy Warhol

I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

Ricki Lake

I am not a natural dancer.

Damien Hirst

She wasn't much to look at, but she was great to dance with.

Richard Feldman

She not only taught dance but self-discipline, self-respect, responsibility and determination, the values that people keep with them forever.

Eminem

Lose yourself in the music, the moment - you own it.

Barbara Mertz

There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.

Ayelet Waldman

I have made so many mistakes as a mother. But the one thing that I know I do is I make sure my children know how much I love them and they are absolutely secure in that.

Ayelet Waldman

I have two daughters and I have done everything in my power to prevent them from assimilating, even being aware of, my idiocy about my weight.

Ayelet Waldman

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

Benjamin Disraeli

Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.

Jane Austen

I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased.

Billy Connolly

Did your mother never tell you not to drink on an empty head?

Boris Yeltsin

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

Bruce Dickinson

You can sail in the desert with a ship of fools. You can smuggle in Moses and his book of rules. But you can't take a mother and give her back her son. What kind of freedom is bought with a gun? People like to build their prison walls when they're afraid to look inside... a thousand points of light are the muzzle flashes in the night. And the freedoms you profess to hold won't bring the dead back from the cold.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Ronald Reagan

How could an actor become president?

Stephen Colbert

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

Pat Paulsen

Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.

Lance Armstrong

On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.

Nick Clooney

A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.

Montel Williams

The president has the right to select who he wants for the Supreme Court. He doesn't have to get it cleared from Congress, Senate or anybody... No president before this has come under this kind of scrutiny ... before the committee hearings even begin.