Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Taylor

I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start, ... I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance.

I don't question the need for someone to look into dangerous materials and make sure they are being handled appropriately.

I don't know how he can possibly be a danger to anybody, no matter what he has.

Jack Canfield

Sometimes you dance with a partner, and sometimes you dance alone. But the important thing is to keep dancing.

Issey Miyake

I very much like dance and dancers.

Isadora Duncan

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

Isadora Duncan

When I was sixteen, I danced before an audience without music. At the end someone suddenly cried 'its Death and the Maiden'. But that was not my intention; I was only endeavoring to express my first knowledge of the underlying tragedy in all seemingly joyous manifestation. The dance according with my comprehension, should have been called 'Life and the Maiden'.

Isadora Duncan

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.

Isadora Duncan

My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

Isadora Duncan

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

Isadora Duncan

To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.

Isadora Duncan

I intend to work for this dance of the future. I do not know whether I have the necessary qualities; I may have neither genius nor talent nor temperament. But I know that I have a Will; and will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

Isadora Duncan

I have discovered the dance. I have discovered the art which has been lost for two thousand years

Isadora Duncan

If I could explain, I wouldn't need to dance!

Isadora Duncan

If we seek the real source of the dance, if we go to nature, we find that the dance of the future is the dance of the past, the dance of eternity, and has been and always will be the same... The movement of waves, of winds, of the earth is ever the same lasting harmony.

Isadora Duncan

Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.

Isadora Duncan

Master technique, so that technique NEVER prevents you from dancing.

Isadora Duncan

The dancer will not belong to any nation but to all humanity.

Isadora Duncan

I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.

Isadora Duncan

A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.

Isadora Duncan

The dancer of the future will be one whose body & soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of the soul will have become the movement of the body.

Isadora Duncan

The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche.

Isadora Duncan

The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.

Isadora Duncan

Dance is the movement of the universe concentrated in an individual.

Isadora Duncan

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled by the profound rhythm of inner emotion. Emotion does not reach the moment of frenzy out of a spurt of action; it broods first, it sleeps like the life in the seed, and it unfolds with a gentle slowness. The Greeks understood the continuing beauty of a movement that mounted, that spread, that ended with a promise of rebirth.

Isadora Duncan

Dancing: The Highest Intelligence in the Freest Body.

Isadora Duncan

My motto - sans limites.

Isadora Duncan

There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

Immaculee Ilibagiza

When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.

But it's also a dangerous period. There isn't a lot of news and the volume is low, so the market is going to move more on rumor than on fact.

Mordechai Vanunu

But I decided then to take them to the far east because I knew with speaking these secrets there would be danger to my life and could end my freedom.

Guy Kawasaki

Inoculate yourself from dangerous bozos.

Graeme Murphy

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.