Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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

Alan Furst

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

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.

She likes to dance and splash in the water, and she loves being outside.

She liked the dancing, and she loved to meet people.

So far, it has been huge for us. We have one of our guys train people to line dance and we have half price steak nights the same night. So people can come, enjoy dinner and then stay for dancing.

Karolina Kurkova

I want to simply relax listening to some Jazz or dance my heart out listening to House, TripHop and all sorts of funky electronics.

Sarah Vowell

Once a woman spilled a drink on me in an elevator, ... She was dancing and holding a mango margarita and she dumped it on me and tried to dab me with napkins. I said, 'Don't touch me!' and she recognized my voice from This American Life .

Jessica Pare

I'm not a trained dancer - I know, I know, you're shocked, I'm sure.

I'm actually a rocker, stuck in a '70s dance tune.

Madison Pettis

I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.

Jenna Elfman

No. It's on films I've done and such. And I was a dancer and I performed music videos. It's just, I've been around.

I want there not to be an inch of space left for people to stand and have a good time and get the beads that are thrown to them and dance and party and just have a lot of fun.

Stuart Murdoch

I wanted to make a record where the songs could stand up to the records we loved on the dance floor while keeping the strong and punchy melodies.

They wanted me to start a dance class, so I went and got certified.

Mike Katz

There's lots of dance music, lots of very old traditional songs, and some we have penned ourselves.

The tools makers are lining up to dance with the ISPs. Tool vendors have to have an elegant way to interface with potential clients: supporting a tool through an ISP is like a hot knife through butter.

Namie Amuro

When I was still in a group, I danced all the time, but since I went solo, I didn't have any promotion videos where I danced at all.

This is the most secure shoe you can wear. You can literally dance all night, and your foot isn't going to go anywhere.

They're doing a nice dance around the question of private investment.

Duke Ellington

Dancing is very important to people who play music with a beat. I think that people who don't dance, or who never did dance, don't really understand the beat... I know musicians who don't and never did dance, and they have difficulty communicating.

Doris Humphrey

Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

Doris Humphrey

There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

Dwayne Johnson

That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

Antonio Banderas

I pretend to dance. I'm not a dancer. That all Spaniards dance naturally is something of a myth especially where I'm concerned.