Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.

Alan Moore

Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.

Chinua Achebe

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Buddy Hackett

I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.

Billy Idol

If I only had the chance, I'd ask one to dance, and I'd be dancing with myself.

Audre Lorde

When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

Earl Derr Biggers

When the jig is up, there is no need for additional dancing.

E. T. A. Hoffmann

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

Carrie Ann Inaba

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.

Charles Dickens

We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

Charles Spurgeon

This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.

Alan Alda

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To know God is to fear Him. And this fear is to love Him as He deserves to be loved.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know.

Dave Barry

I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though it were a movie.

David Sanborn

Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest.

Bruce Wilkinson

What counts is knowing who you want to be and asking for it.

Bryan Stevenson

Knowing what I know about the people who have come before me, and the people who came before them, and what they had to do, it changes my capacity to stay engaged, to stay productive.