Famous Quotes & Sayings

Grace Kelly

As an unmarried woman, I was thought to be a danger.

Grant Morrison

I was a clubber in the Nineties. I went dancing every week.

Georg Brandes

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

Gene Kelly

In fact, I wasn't going to dance in Xanadu, but several journalists told me that Olivia Newton-John kept saying how sad she was that she wouldn't get the chance to dance with me. So I finally said, "All right, throw in a number." But I'm through with dancing.

Gene Kelly

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

Gene Kelly

I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.

Gene Kelly

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

Gene Kelly

At the time the quickest way to establish yourself as an American was to throw a little bit of tap into your dance - even when it wasn't called for. But what also helped me was the fact that I was dancing in roles that I had played.

Gene Kelly

It fit into my scheme of things for many reasons. At the time it was true that male dancers were looked down upon, and it was true that a lot of the male dancers were effeminate. But what I was really trying to do was develop something that would be American.

Gene Kelly

I love rhythmic dancing - I'm not derogating it at all. It's just that sometimes you want to whisper, "I adore you." And for that you need strings and woodwinds.

Friedrich Nietzsche

How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.

Friedrich Nietzsche

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I should not believe in a God who does not dance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!

Friedrich Nietzsche

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

If I had any doubts or if I thought I was at any risk of danger more than any other boxer, I wouldn't be sitting here.

Robert Pinsky

If I live near a dancer or a painter, or a clarinet player comes from my neighborhood, I take some pleasure in that, feel a little more as if I come from someplace in particular.

Abraham Lincoln

I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Bobby Hamilton

I can't think about what happened in 2001 and what kind of season it was. It was a good season. But like I say, I hope I can have a season like that, turn it back around and go to the big dance (this year).

Colin Murray

I can't wait to hear the dance version.

I don't think the recovery is in danger. But I think what we have here is a situation where the Federal Reserve will probably look at the numbers a lot more closely. If we see another two or three economic statistics that surprise us, yes the Fed can pause and not raise rates in August.

I don't think that's necessarily true. I feel the same way about exotic dancers.

I don't think (Grammy voters) had any frame of reference of whether Steely Dan ever won,

Sally Quinn

I don't think anybody's going to be dancing on tables,

I don't think Daniel has lost a AA match yet, which is big. I hope he can hold on to that going into the seeding tournament.

David Strathairn

I feel kind of like a deer in the headlights. It's quite a big dance and it's my first time on the floor.

I don't want to sound arrogant, but why would we? They don't have the market share or technology we need. Scale is No. 1 on our dance card. Where do you get scale? You go to the big players with alliances.

I don't want to ever minimize the danger of working in a mine.

I don't think they're in immediate danger. I think it's long-term neglect.

However, the real danger is that the warm weather may have fooled many into thinking the economy is doing better than it is.

George Washington

How soon we forget history...Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

J. J. Johnson

He's in management. But there's a lot of mining in Montana, and I know how dangerous it is.

OPEC is playing a dangerous game of bluff, and has to be prepared to follow it through.