Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes de Mille

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.

Agnes de Mille

Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

Agnes de Mille

The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.

Agnes de Mille

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.

Agnes de Mille

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

Agnes de Mille

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

Agnes de Mille

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

Agnes de Mille

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

Agnes de Mille

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.

Agnes de Mille

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

Agnes de Mille

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

Agnes de Mille

But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.

Agnes de Mille

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

Agnes Varda

If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.

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.

We've updated the show, ... There is a lot more of Jennifer singing and dancing.

We've tried to educate people over the years. If you're not in a high-risk area, not in danger of flooding or intense winds, stay at home, hunker down, or go to a shelter. If you're going to evacuate, go 10 or 20 miles, not hundreds.

Katie Lowes

I love singing! I was a musical theater girl in high school. We were always singing and dancing around, and just doing little community theaters and high school musicals. Then, when I got to NYU, I focused more on drama.

Alan Blinder

What this illustrates is the virtue of being more plain-spoken and the dangers when you are not.

When we get to our referendum, nobody will be talking about the Danish referendum,

Paul Christopher

We see some early signs of improvement in manufacturing, but the contraction continues. Today's report should simply remind investors the economy is not out of danger yet.

We seem to have escaped any real danger, and even maybe now the flood danger we were looking at has passed by the looks of it.

We've been called out with search and rescue this week more than we have in so many years. And there's a reason, it's because it's so dangerous out there now.

Alan Furst

For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.

Anne Hathaway

When I think back to some of the most fun nights of my life, it was just me out dancing without a care in the world. It's a release, an outlet.

Adam Lambert

I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.