Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzanne Farrell

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

Suzanne Farrell

Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance.

Suzanne Farrell

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.

Suzanne Farrell

So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.

Suzanne Farrell

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.

Suzanne Farrell

Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession.

Suzanne Farrell

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

Suzanne Farrell

Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.

Suzanne Farrell

Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself If you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.

Suzanne Farrell

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

Susannah McCorkle

When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing!

Susanna Hoffs

You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

Susanna Kaysen

Something about the goat dancing made me want to cry.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I'm more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.

Taylor Schilling

I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but now I'm really into it.

Stanley Kubrick

Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.

Stacy Schiff

As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.

Soren Kierkegaard

Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.

Taylor Hanson

I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with - and at the same time be dancing.

Tad Williams

Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.

Sylvia Plath

Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse.

Samantha Shannon

Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

Rupert Friend

I'm a terrible dancer.

Rupert Grint

I do get one chance to dance [in GoF], I had to dance with Maggie Smith. That was the only dancing experience I had, which was actually quite enough really.

Rumi

Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?

Rumi

Dance when you're perfectly free.

Rumi

You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you,

Rumi

Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.

Rumi

Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.

Rumi

In your beauty, how to make poems.

Rumi

Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.

Rumi

Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.