Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.
~By Jon Fishman ~
It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance.
~By Amanda McBroom ~
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
~By Alexander Pope ~
I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.
~By Matthew Bourne ~
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
Get up and dance, get up and smile, get up and drink to the days that are gone in the shortest while.
~By Simon Fowler ~
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.
~By Milan Kundera ~
For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.
~By Nick Rahall ~
If diffraction or interference phenomena were to be sought it was therefore necessary, in accordance with the basic principles of wave theory, to select for the test arrangement far smaller decisive dimensions than those employed in corresponding tests with visible light.
~By Max von Laue ~
Defining OO as based on the use of class hierarchies and virtual functions is also practical in that it provides some guidance as to where OO is likely to be successful.
~By Bjarne Stroustrup ~
There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.
~By Giorgio Moroder ~
Sometimes, when I'm alone, I put on six inch heels and wear nothing else and dance around in front of the mirror and do my little stripper dance.
~By Tori Spelling ~
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
~By Jennifer Garner ~
The river route is certainly preferable, as it affords good grazing and an abundance of water.
~By William Whipple ~
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.
~By Jane Porter ~
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
~By e. e. cummings ~
Thank God my parents had an abundance of patience.
~By Lexa Doig ~
I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.
~By Paul Kane ~
The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper.
~By Geoffrey Faber ~
My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.
~By Jerry Hall ~
Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.
~By Mikhail Baryshnikov ~
I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I couldn't prove that that was wrong; so we're clearer about that.
~By Peter Singer ~
When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
~By James Earl Jones ~
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
~By Xenophon ~
The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest black artists, dancers, singers, musicians, and actors of our time.
~By Guy Johnson ~
My first vocation was dance.
~By Victoria Abril ~
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
Actors fall into this trap if they missed being loved for who they really were and not for what they could do - sing, dance, joke about - then they take that as love.
~By Gene Wilder ~
In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.
~By Louise Brooks ~
In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.
~By Robert Wagner ~
I just knew that was what I wanted to do. I was going to perform as a singer; I was going to perform as a dancer, and I was, you know, going to do movies and be an actress. I was going to do it or die trying. That's what my life was.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances.
~By Etta James ~
Then I did The Tao of Steve and that was at Sundance in 2000 where it did really well.
~By Donal Logue ~
I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.
~By Walt Whitman ~
I love music and I love to dance.
~By Jami Gertz ~
People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses - that's what it's about.
~By Steve Marriott ~
Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.
~By Vaughn Monroe ~
Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.
~By Cecil Taylor ~
I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
~By Isak Dinesen ~
The human young must learn to perceive these affordances, in some degree at least, but the young of some animals do not have time to learn the ones that are crucial for survival.
~By James J. Gibson ~
I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.
~By Billy Bob Thornton ~
Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns.
~By Tina Weymouth ~
The film is a romance with songs and dances, aimed at a family audience.
~By Sanjay Dutt ~
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leaders.
~By Navjot Singh Sidhu ~
I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.
~By Mia Kirshner ~
I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.
~By Sheena Easton ~
I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time.
~By Kylie Minogue ~
In a country with an overabundance of food, no one should go hungry because of a lack of funds or technical and professional knowledge. We have the food, and we have the networks; we now need to support the providers.
~By Jose Serrano ~
Sundance was started as a mechanism for the discovery of new voices and new talent.
~By Robert Redford ~
That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
~By Adam Jones ~
That is perceptive of you, because in this country men dancers have always been viewed with suspicion. If you were an actor, a star, and a dancer, you had to be, or have a name like someone "mainstream."
~By Cesar Romero ~
One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline.
~By Siobhan Davies ~
I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I'm talking about.
~By Willa Ford ~
Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.
~By Holly Near ~
Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.
~By Evander Holyfield ~
The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.
~By Tristan Tzara ~
I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.
~By Kenneth Robert Livingstone ~
No, I don't think my presence will cause an increase in black attendance at Cleveland.
~By Frank Robinson ~
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body.
~By Martha Graham ~
I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.
~By Boy George ~
Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else.
~By Keri Russell ~
It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design.
~By Christian Siriano ~
We're going through a kind of ancient, barbaric war dance now - it's almost an ultimate in absurdity.
~By Clark M. Clifford ~
I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.
~By Michael Tilson Thomas ~
I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form.
~By Graeme Murphy ~
My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.
~By Merce Cunningham ~
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.
~By Gene Kelly ~
Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.
~By George B. McClellan ~
Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.
~By Taye Diggs ~
My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.
~By Morgan Brittany ~
On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.
~By Octavia Butler ~
I have worked with several dance companies.
~By Issey Miyake ~
She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away.
~By William Allingham ~
Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.
~By Leslie Caron ~
All of us kids ended up 'doing Mom.' There are four of us who've tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
~By Bill Murray ~
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
~By George Balanchine ~
I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror.
~By Alannah Myles ~
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
~By Mata Hari ~
The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.
~By Mahalia Jackson ~
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
~By Quentin Crisp ~
I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.
~By Lexa Doig ~
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.
~By Kate Chopin ~
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.
~By Ted Shawn ~
The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler.
~By K. Eric Drexler ~
I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.
~By Francesca Annis ~
And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.
~By Hart Crane ~
A judgment pronounced in accordance with the facts can therefore assign to it an historical place only within that movement of reformation which was brought to a victorious issue by King Josiah.
~By Julius Wellhausen ~
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
I do not see any reason why they should not be given the means to give their teachers just as high an education as is secured by attendance at the Protestant schools.
~By Charles Tupper ~
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night.
~By Mary Lou Williams ~
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