Quotes About Doris Humphrey

#1. I believe all stories are love stories, and there are kinds and kinds of love, so I will always write about love, but not necessarily romance.

Melissa Pritchard

#2. There are times when the simple dignity of movementcan fulfill the function of a volume of words.

Doris Humphrey

#3. It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.

John Flanagan

#4. Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

Lynda Barry

#5. I read all the time. People ask, 'Do you read while you work?' And I say, 'I better.' I take two or three years to finish one of my enormous books, and I can't go that long without reading.

Diana Gabaldon

#6. Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal and dissimulate behind words or paintings or statues or other forms of human expression, but the moment you move you stand revealed, for good or ill, for what you are.

Doris Humphrey

#7. The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.

Doris Humphrey

#8. There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

Doris Humphrey

#9. Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#10. As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

Jonny Greenwood

#11. I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.

Nelly

#12. Certainly we must be strong, but strength is, to me, not just a force, but rather a vocabulary of many means

Doris Humphrey

#13. Art is for stimulation, excitement, adventure.

Doris Humphrey

#14. Yeah, baggy jeans are done. Nobody wants to wear big, baggy jeans. Baggy jeans are completely over with.

Wiz Khalifa

#15. The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

Doris Humphrey

#16. This hideous doctrine of eternal torment after death has probably caused more terror and misery, more cruelty and more violation of natural human sympathy, than any belief in the history of mankind. Yet this doctrine was taught unambiguously by Jesus.

Margaret E. Knight

#17. I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.

Matt McGorry

#18. Dance form is logical, but it is all in the realm of feeling, sensitivity and imagination ...

Doris Humphrey

#19. I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.

Cristina Saralegui

#20. Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't make new.

Adam M. Grant