Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

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

Indian Proverb

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak

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.

Robert Fulghum

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

Rita Rudner

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.

Ricki Lake

I am not a natural dancer.

Charles Kettering

You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them.

Dan Ariely

When you get a checking account, you should have a savings account, and the number for the savings account should be one off of your checking account.

Billy Connolly

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.

Charles Spurgeon

If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all; and the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should have spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect church after I had become a member of it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest place on earthto us.

Sonny Bono

I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

Stephen Hadley

No one from the intelligence community, anyplace else ever came in and said, ‘What if Saddam is doing all this deception because he actually got rid of the WMD and he doesn't want the Iranians to know?' Now somebody should have asked that question. I should have asked that question. Nobody did. Turns out that was the most important question in terms of the intelligence failure that never got asked.

Sri Aurobindo

An aimless life is always a troubled life. Every individual should have an aim. But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life. Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested; this will make your life precious to yourself and to others. Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself.

Rihanna

I'm open to love. But guys should have to earn it. Because the minute they get it, they want something else.

Michelle Obama

Women should have the freedom to do whatever they need to do to feel good about themselves,

Andrew Solomon

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

David Platt

God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.

J. K. Rowling

I'm not a billionaire, what a tragedy.

Nathan Fillion

There's comedy even in tragedy. There's comedy in life. And in 'Castle', we go for that comedy.

Julian Barnes

Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.

Charlie Munger

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Tom Lamb

The real tragedy is for Billy, not for the team,

Claude Monet

It is a tragedy that we live in a world where physical courage is so common, and moral courage is so rare.