Dance Quotes - Page 40

It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.

We live in a time when there is an abundance of ways we can express ourselves.

I was always a singer and a dancer, and I always wanted to be an actress. For me, it's all just one thing.

The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

Dance in this century has remained primarily a personal ritual operating, like most avant-garde art, as an idiosyncratic form rather than a tribal expression of religious powers or a corporate expression of societal values.

You can dance anywhere and you can dance in your mind, in your heart.

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

To dance is to live. What I want is a school of life.

In all abundance there is lack.

I have never received a heavenly dispatch. Rather, I have found that divine guidance often comes as a result of taking steps of faith. And God not only has His will, but He also has His timing for each and every situation. The Bible tells us, 'He has made everything beautiful in its time'

Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance.

I have never sung a whole song on my own before and I am not the best dancer in the world, but I would rather try and fall than not not try at all.

Selenite occurs in abundance in well formed clear crystals of several inches in length.

I danced with passion to spite the music.

Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.

Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels - "black dancer, black choreographer" -is a ploy to divide and conquer, and to limit.

Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.

The self is a dance, constantly in motion.

I should not believe in a God who does not dance.

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.