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.

Alain Robert

Life has to be dangerous.

Al Sharpton

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

Al Pacino

All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

Chita Rivera

Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.

Chinua Achebe

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. H. P. LOVECRAFT, attributed, Telling It Like It Is Dancing is very important nowadays. No girl will look at you if you can't dance.

Chinua Achebe

Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

Chinua Achebe

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

Dave Barry

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

Buddy Hackett

Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guys's out there dancing.

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.

Cesar Romero

I was out dancing with one actress or another. And that got press. Even when it didn't, the whole town knew I was a dancing fool, and since I couldn't very well dance with a man, they saw me dancing with a lady, and they assumed the rest.

Carlos Santana

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Camille Paglia

All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep down inside, you're never going to achieve anything. You have to want to be king of the heap.

Caity Lotz

I was a dancer before I was an actress, so I've always been someone who likes to communicate from my body and movement.

The possibility of danger is there, but the realistic dangers are quite remote. People's perceived potential problems are something they have to conquer.

We've already had some dangerous situations, and I am really dreading March.

We've already had a dangerous situation in January with a number of grass fires. But the month I dread is March.

We are at this point not in any immediate danger. We are in a period in which we need to focus on prevention and helping each other as much as possible,

Mitchell Baker

There are dancers and painters and writers who pursued that whether or not they are paid for it. There are a lot of technologists who are the same.

There are some extremely smart hackers out there using and sharing the tools that find these vulnerabilities. When Microsoft takes a long time to issue fixes, it sets up a dangerous situation,

We're in schools at least three or four times a week trying to teach students and parents about the dangers on the Internet. We try to impress upon them that the odds are in their favor. They most likely won't be a victim, but if they are, there can be severe consequences.

We spread them out and made the extra pass in the second half. The first half was one pass and one shot. You got to at least make them play defense, we didn't do that in the first half. We could have been pretty dangerous tonight if we played all 32 minutes.

Martin Seligman

I don't think anyone's found a way of eliminating thoughts of danger and loss. It's rather that, when they're unrealistic, you become an acrobat at marshaling evidence against them.

Aime Cesaire

Out of the sky, the birds, the parrots, the bells, silk, cloth, and drums, out of Sundays dancing, children's words and love words, out of love for the little fists of children, I will build a world, my world with round shoulders.

Billy Idol

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

Billy Idol

Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself.

Billy Eichner

I'm not much of a dancer.

Beyonce Knowles

I don't use backing tapes when I am singing and dancing on stage. I can do cartwheels and sing.

David Walliams

It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland.

Ben Vereen

So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.

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.