Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martha Graham

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Martha Graham

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

Martha Graham

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

Martha Graham

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

Oswald Chambers

We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.

Naomi Watts

I have a bit of a frustrated dancer in me.

Mithun Chakraborty

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

Publilius Syrus

Danger comes on us more speedily when we treat it with contempt.

Poul Anderson

Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.

Nelson Mandela

There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly.

Nelson Mandela

It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world.

Mike Huckabee

Opposing Bush's troop surge is a dangerous position.

Niccolo Machiavelli

One never finds anything perfectly pure and ... exempt from danger.

Mike Patton

When you start to kind of immerse yourself in that improvisation culture, you gotta be comfortable enough with your instrument to throw yourself into a really potentially dangerous situation.

Jim Crace

To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it.

Jendayi Frazer

Dance to the light that is your soul.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Harry Shum, Jr.

I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her.

Klaus Schulze

Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.

Moliere

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Moliere

Music and dance are all you need.

Moliere

...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

Mike Birbiglia

You can express love by calling out the truth out of the situation as opposed to dancing around it.

Mike Birbiglia

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

Natalia Makarova

People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.

Natalia Makarova

I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.

Natalia Makarova

The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

Natalia Makarova

Even the ears must dance.

Kathy Mattea

Tonight I feel like all of creation is asking us to dance.

Katie Melua

Dancing is an important function of music, but so is crying.

Margaret Atwood

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

For hardly any man dances when sober, unless he is insane. Nor does he dance while alone, nor at a respectable and moderate party. Dancing is the final phase of a wild party with fancy decorations and a multitude of delights.