„If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!“
— Craig Ferguson Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice artist 1962
„I said … unprepared, unscripted, that, "I know how to fight and I know how to dance, and I'd much rather dance than fight." ... What I didn't tell everybody was I was always a better fighter than dancer.“
Quelle: "Reid Says He's A Fighter Who'd Rather Dance", All Things Considered, NPR (18 May 2010) https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126905578
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„I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.“
— E.E. Cummings American poet 1894 - 1962
Collected Poems (1938) New Poems 22
Variante: I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
„I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.“
— Mikhail Baryshnikov Soviet-American dancer, choreographer, and actor born in Letonia, Soviet Union 1948
„I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.“
— Martha Graham American dancer and choreographer 1894 - 1991
New York Times interview (1985)
Kontext: I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it. I can correct it and tell them what they have done after they have done it, and what it means to me. But I don't say, "Be fearful here," "Be angry here," because I think that is intrusion.
„I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche, buch Also sprach Zarathustra
Variante: I would only believe in a god who could dance.
Quelle: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
„I know more than I knew before
I didn't rest I didn't stop
Did we fight or did we talk.“
— Leslie Feist Canadian musician 1976
"I Feel It All"
The Reminder (2007)
— Tom Cruise American actor and film producer 1962
Transcript of Tom Cruise on Scientology (January 16, 2008)
Kontext: I have to tell you something. It really is, you know, it's rough and tumble. It's wild and woolly. It's a blast... it's a blast. It really is fun, because dammit, there's nothing better than to going out there and fighting the fight...
— Gene Kelly American dancer, actor, singer, director, producer and choreographer 1912 - 1996
Speaking on March 8, 1985 at the American Film Institute; as quoted in "Hollywood Honors Man Who `Danced Joy'" by Paul Rosenfield, in Los Angeles Times (March 9, 1985)
— Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments
Alec Lightwood, to Jace, Clary, Simon, and Isabelle, pg. 435
The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
— Oliver Cromwell English military and political leader 1599 - 1658
Letter to Sir William Spring (September 1643)
„O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?“
— W.B. Yeats, buch The Tower
Among School Children http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1437/, st. 8
The Tower (1928)
Kontext: Labour is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.
Nor beauty born out of its own despair,
Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.
O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
— Stevie Nicks American singer and songwriter, member of Fleetwood Mac 1948
when asked "Do you think you're sexy?") "20 Questions", Playboy, Vol. 29, No. 7 (July 1982
— Protima Bedi Indian model and dancer 1948 - 1998
After learning Odissi dance, she toured all over the world performing Odissi dance and then settled in Switzerland but came back to establish a dance school. Quoted in in "I have been a hippie all my life".
„I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.“
— Margaret Atwood, buch Der lange Traum
Lady Oracle (1976)
Quelle: Surfacing
„Jassie, guess what I'm dancing in!'
'I don't know, a bowl?'
'Non… I am dancing in my Nuddy-pants!“
— Louise Rennison British writer 1951 - 2016
Quelle: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
— H.L. Mencken American journalist and writer 1880 - 1956
"What I Believe" in The Forum 84 (September 1930), p. 139; some of these expressions were also used separately in other Mencken essays.
1930s
Kontext: I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind — that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking.
I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty and the democratic form is as bad as any of the other forms.
I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.
I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech — alike for the humblest man and the mightiest, and in the utmost freedom of conduct that is consistent with living in organized society.
I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run.
I believe in the reality of progress.
I —But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.
