Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lina Wertmuller

When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile.

Kenny Ortega

There's an old Fred Astaire movie where the stage becomes bigger and deeper and more complex. Moments like that really did impact on me and influence me.

Sharon Stone

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

Terry Teachout

Fred Astaire never let you see him sweat, but he sweetened his deceptively casual virtuosity with just enough charm to make it irresistible.

David Hallberg

No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn't have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers.

Liz Smith

I thought Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were here dancing on black glass floors. And I thought everything was here. My idol, Walter Winchell was here.

Max von Essen

I grew up with the movies of Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire and Judy Garland - these are the kinds of shows and the kinds of numbers in shows that I dreamed of being in and doing when I was a kid.

Adam G. Sevani

I dug up my dad's old Fred Astaire tapes, and now I find him super-inspiring. He's, like, one of the best dancers.

George Hamilton

I said I need a little more Fred Astaire and a little less Ricky Martin.

Alan Watts

If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.

Alan Parker

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.

Alan Moore

Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure.

Chinua Achebe

The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.

Dave Barry

That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and he’s coming for this ship now.” “And how do you know that?” asked Slank. “Did a seagull tell you?” This brought chuckles from the crew. Something like that, thought Peter.

Dave Barry

If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

It was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated.

Carter G. Woodson

At this moment, then, the Negroes must begin to do the very thing which they have been taught that they cannot do.

C. L. R. James

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

Tom Rath

We know how to do this... there's kind of an elegant dance, as they say.

Dennis Nahat

Some dancers have technique they can swallow and spit out but have no idea why they're out there.

Gerard Daffy

Simone looks set for the Dancing with the Stars equivalent of a golden duck.

Bruce Davis

We were dancing with them. We didn't set things up properly and were trying for stuff that wasn't there.

Mark Wood

She's always dancing at the house and putting on a show so why not just put her in a show.

Russell Crowe

We got on the front page instead of Tommy Cruise, this is just my version of couch-dancing,

Chris Anderson

Those were the songs that were getting people out dancing. We found people were happy listening to it all night long.

Wilhelm Busch

Up high, the flies are playing,And frolicking, and swaying.The frog thinks: Dance! I knowYou'll end up here below.

Suzanne Farrell

I was grateful that I had dancing to fall back on. It was my survival tactic. It was my friend. It was always there.

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.

Edward Brooke

Fred Thompson was a law partner of mine.

Lauren Bacall

I studied dancing for 13 years. And loved to dance. Always wanted to dance with Fred Astaire.

Geraldine Ferraro

No one is walking around saying Mike Bloomberg is something we have to dread. That has made it tough for Freddy from the get-go.

Geraldine Ferraro

No one is walking around saying Mike Bloomberg is something we have to dread, ... That has made it tough for Freddy from the get-go.

Steven Livingston

Fred Siegel is a great guy to work with and live next to.

Haley Barbour

Fred may be right, and I may not have heard it, ... I do not recall his saying that.

Bernard Laporte

Fred is a key player of our squad, that's why he was rested this week.

Kelly Middleton

Fred (Hester) and Terry Stanfield have done a phenomenal job for years. It takes unbelievable organization to put this together.

Jack Rio

Fred held up well and had some really nice runs. He really did a nice job running the ball.

Kreayshawn

I was super-obsessed with the Spice Girls. Ginger was my favorite. They had a tour in 2008, and my home girls went, but I didn't have the money to go!

Robert Corn

He was very ginger in practice (earlier in the week). But he played through it. ... And this is the kind of injury that would put a lot of players out for two or three weeks.

Ron Gardenhire

I still think he runs a little ginger at times. But he's doing everything he has to do. I'm never going to say never until we get down to the end of spring training. I think you just leave your options open.

Annette Bening

They did really adventurous traveling together. She talked about that. She talked about what a great reader he was, that he would read up on where they were going. It's completely fascinating to talk to her. I was ? and she said that when they were dancing, he made her feel like Ginger Rogers.

Chris Reed

They didn't even recognize the real ginger root I had in my booth!

Jane Huff

In the 1950s, my mother made this gown, ... It's (patterned on) a Ginger Rogers gown.

Jason Flemyng

I'm ginger, so it's hard to rate me

Annette Bening

I just sort of took her lead. She was guiding the conversation. She's an old lady now, 82 or so, and she was sort of surprised that we were making the story. She said nice things about him. She said he was a great traveler. ... And she said he was a great dancer, that he made her feel like Ginger Rogers.

Katy Perry

I have to be a ginger for 3 weeks.

Charles Dickens

They enter, locking themselves in, descend the rugged steps, and are down in the Crypt. The lantern is not wanted, for the moonlight strikes in at the groined windows, bare of glass, the broken frames for which cast patterns on the ground. The heavy pillars which support the roof engender masses of black shade, but between them there are lanes of light.

Charles Spurgeon

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

Alan Moore

American love — like coke in green glass bottles...they don't make it anymore.

Alan Bennett

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

David Sedaris

Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.

Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

I was clear: "I don't want to play businessmen with bifocal glasses and cameras, so if you're going to give me an Asian bad guy to play, then I'm going to give you the baddest Asian bad guy you've ever seen, and you're not going to forget that I was in the film."

Catherine Tate

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty, it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

Mark Cuban

I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them.

Charles Lindbergh

I learned that danger is relative, and the inexperience can be a magnifying glass.