Danse Quotes

#1. Despite the rigid classicism of the famous Paris Opera school and company, the French have done more than their share to unmoor la Danse from its traditions and standards.

Robert Gottlieb

#2. Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world.
[Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui peu avance.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#3. If this were a musical, this would signal the start of a dance number. Angry girls sexy danse in unison around the bull pen. Men stride up and grab a partner to a choreographed tango."
Nolan held his hand out.
"Give me your man card. You have never sounded more like a girl than right now.

Erin McCarthy

#4. She is entirely in her closed eyes, and quite alone with her soul, in the bosom of the most intimate attention ... She feels in herself that she is becoming some event.

Paul Valery

#5. I may not have been born captain of this boat, but I was born to rock it.

Tupelo Hassman

#6. Each of them, all unknowing, fairly gives its due to each chance of life, to each germ of death within itself.

Paul Valery

#7. -How are you always so cheerful?-
-Alcohol. I wouldn't recommend it to others. But it seems to work for me.-

Pittacus Lore

#8. O Socrates, the universe cannot for one instant endure to be only what it is. It is strange to think that that which is All cannot be sufficient unto itself!

Paul Valery

#9. My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself!

Paul Valery

#10. But Socrates cannot but have been meditating upon something? ... Can he ever remain solitary with himself
and silent to his very soul!

Paul Valery

#11. Actually, no, because awards don't spark sales as much as you'd think.

Chantal Kreviazuk

#12. A large part of being a parent is a constant near certainty that you are screwing it up, and it is comforting to be able to spread the blame around.

Cody McFadyen

#13. Stand before your god, bow before your king, kneel before your man.

Terry Pratchett

#14. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. Admirable man, who know teeth by dreams, think you that all those of philosophers are decayed?

Paul Valery

#16. It was said of Charles Spurgeon that he "addressed two thousand people as though he were speaking personally to one man.

Bryan Chapell

#17. If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

Stanley Marion Garn

#18. Anxious to know, yet only too happy to ignore, we seek in what is, a remedy for what is not; and in what is not a relief from what is. Now the real, now illusion is our refuge; and the soul has finally no other resource but the true, which is her weapon
and falsehood, which is her armor.

Paul Valery