Pearl Primus Quotes

#1. A wicked sense of humor, this one.

Gayle Forman

#2. The dance is strong magic. The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice. The dance is strong magic. The dance is life.

Pearl Primus

#3. The trouble with the English was that they were English: damn cold fish! - Living underwater most of the year, in days the colour of night!

Salman Rushdie

#4. Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#5. Someone's a very dirty Uncle." ... "And a very naughty niece

G.A. Aiken

#6. Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Joe Moore

#7. People with passion are people who will destroy - for a man's passion is not true until he proves how much he's willing to sacrifice for it. Will he kill? Will he go to war? Will he break and discard that which he has, all in the name of what he needs?

Brandon Sanderson

#8. Being funny wasn't a career choice growing up, it was my way out of situations; a way to survive another day.

Tracy Morgan

#9. Baseball fans! Good lord! I feel like sports fans get mad at you easier than country music fans. It scares me. I'm glad that country fans don't get mad every time I mess up.

Ashley Monroe

#10. When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#11. I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere.

Pearl Primus