Quote Credit |
The Quote |
| a Radcliffe president |
"Whatever you find to do in life, make sure it's something
you're passionate about, because you'll be competing against people
who are." |
| Amelia (1796) |
"Nature gives us limbs and art teaches us to use them"
(from the Philidelphia Minerva Mag) |
| Anna Pavlova |
"Master technique and then forget about it and be natural." |
| Anatole Chujoy (1949) |
"A great art is never a product of any one artist, but the
temper of the folk and the times." |
| Anonymous |
ABOUT BALANCE: "Crane's stand on one leg, but cannot dance
a step." |
| Anonymous |
"He that lives in hope, dances without music." |
| Bob Thaves (Frank & Ernst cartoons) |
"Sure Fred was great, but don't forget, Ginger did everything
he did backwards and... in high heels." |
| Carlo Blasis |
"The dancer gradually introduces all that his art comprises." |
| Cicero |
"No Sober Person Dances." |
| Confucius |
"A Nation's character is typified by its dancers." |
| Cotillion,
the |
"He's Holding a Candle For You." |
| Dance Caravan (actually used before) |
"I don't have an attitude, I'm just REALLY good!" |
| 'Débat de la Demoiselle et de la Bourgeoise' |
the latter accuses the gentlewoman of late rising, whereupon she
replies: "No; but we must spend our evening in dancing, and cannot
do as you who go to bed the same time as your hens" (c.1400s?) |
| Edward Ferrero |
"On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined." |
| Edwin Denby |
"Dance is a bit of insanity that does everybody a great deal
of good." |
| Evaluation of Fred Astaire's very first screen test: |
"Can't act!. Can't sing!. Balding!. Can dance a little."
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| Fred Astaire |
"Dancing is a sweat job" |
| Friedrich Nietzsche |
"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance." |
| George Balanchine |
"I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have
to dance." |
| George Bernard Shaw |
"Dance, a Vertical expression of a Horizontal desire." |
| George Carlin |
"Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot
hear the music." |
| Gwen Verdon |
"Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder." |
| Jack Cole (Choreographer) |
"The trouble with choreography is you have to get the person
out of the way before you can bring out the dancer." |
| Jack Cole (Choreographer) |
"If you're ashamed of this or that emotion, you can't dance.
You yourself may not behave a certain way as a person, but when you
dance you must bring real emotion to whatever you're doing." |
| John Milton, L'Allegro |
"Come, and trip it, as you go, On the light fantastic toe." |
| Kenny Wetzel |
(on California class rotation introductions) "Introduce
Yourself" ... "You could be dancin' with your future Ex-Husband." |
| Kitty Foyle (& Christopher Morley) |
"Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way
you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it." |
| Lady Duff-Gordon |
(On sinking of the Titanic, a passenger) "It comes
as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to
let them do it." |
| Liebman |
"It's better to do an old thing thats good, than a new thing
thats bad." |
| Locke |
"Nothing appears to me to give children so much confidence,
and so to raise them to the conversation of those above their age,
as dancing." |
| M.A. Ham (The Modern Dance) 1916 |
"There are only two places where indiscriminate hugging is
tolerated the brothel and the ballroom." |
| M.B. Gilbert |
"The tree of knowledge, blasted by desputes, Produces sapless
leaves instead of fruits." |
| M.B. Gilbert |
"One cannot become master of an art, without a knowledge of
its technique." |
| Mae West |
"Come Up and See Me Sometime." |
| Mae West |
"I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of
it." |
| Mario Robau Jr. |
"Dance is the only sport I know, where a man can touch a woman
over most parts of her body, and she thanks you for it afterwords." |
| Martha Graham |
"Dance is the hidden language of the soul." |
| Mata Hari |
"The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word." |
| Merce Cunningham |
"The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion,
the steadfast & willing devotion to the labor that makes the class
work not a laborious hour and a half, or even at the lowest level,
a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom disciplines
to become moments of dancing." |
| Milton |
"Come, Knit hands and beat the ground, In a light fantastic
round." |
| Moore - "Odes of Anacreon" |
"Memory wakes her magic trance, And wings me lightly through
the dance." |
| Morrocco |
"The dancer dies, but does not forget the shaking of his shoulders." |
| Mrs. Lilly Grove (1907) |
"A youth who is unskilled in the dance finds little favour
with the women." |
| Myrna Loy |
"Life, is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming."
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| Nero |
"Give Me, your Pantomime, No gift could delight me more!." |
| Nicholas Brothers |
"We can't do those routines any more; we don't want to, &
I'll tell you why - it hurts!" |
| Ninette de Valois (1918) |
"The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile
of the limbs." (a dance teacher) |
| Old Persian Proverb |
"He who danceth not, knoweth not the ways of life." |
| Only in America ... |
are there handicap parking places in front of Dance Studios and
skating rinks. |
| Ovid (1878), watching Kate
Vaughan |
"Si vox est, canta; si mollia brachia, salta," (If
you have a voice, sing; but if you have good arms, then go in for
dancing.) |
| Perrot & Robert (1845) |
"Tell me how you do the polka, and I will tell you how you
love." |
| Plato |
"All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing
and dancing." |
| Plato |
"In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how
to dance." |
| Plato |
"So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well." |
| Pope |
"They move easiest who have learned to dance." |
| Ramon Navarro |
"Better Dancing makes Better Lovers" (Dance Magazine-1930's) |
| Shakespere - "Much Ado about Nothing" |
"God match me with a good dancer." |
| Shakespere - "Much Ado about Nothing" |
"Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig." |
| Shakespere -"Hamlet" |
"You Jig,
you amble, and you lisp." |
| Sir Francis de Sales |
"A dance is the devil's procession, and he that entereth into
a dance, entereth into his possession." |
| Solomon - 1000 B.C. |
"There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn
and a time to dance." |
| St. Chrysostom |
"Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly,
not to leap impudently like camels." |
| Ted Shawn |
"Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff
of which it is made." |
| Theodore Roosevelt (apply this to dance
contests) |
"Far better it is, To dare mighty things, To win glorious triumphs,
Even though checkered with failure. Than to live in that grey twilight,
that knows neither victory Nor defeat." |
| Theophile Gautier |
"Art For Art's Sake." |
| Tully |
"He is not a sober man that danceth." |
| Unknown |
"A wish changes nothing. A decision changes everything." |
| Unknown |
"If at first you dont succeed, skydiving is not for you." |
| Unknown |
Remember... "Amateurs built the Ark, Professionals built the
Titanic." (I luv this one) |
| Unknown |
"Work like you dont need the money, love like you've never
been hurt, and dance like nobodys looking." |
| Unknown Magazine Title |
"Uncle Sambo -- Mad for Mambo." |
| Unknown Writer |
"As barbarians are observed to have the strongest passions,
so they are also observed to be the most easily affected by sounds,
and the most habitually addicted to dancing." |
| William Arthur Ward |
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The
superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
(...and a legendary teacher does it all.) |
| William Butler Yeats |
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" |
| Winston Churchill |
(on being at a party...) "You're drunk" to which
churchill replied "You're ugly. Tomorrow, I'll be sober." |
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