Tap Dancer Quotes

#1. I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.

Roselee Goldberg

#2. I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.

Andy Warhol

#3. You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.

Sandra Cisneros

#4. I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.

Jimi Hendrix

#5. When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

Peter Ackroyd

#6. I'm a pretty decent tap dancer. I enjoy all types of dancing, actually.

Chris Evans

#7. I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.

Mitch Hedberg

#8. I was a tap dancer as a child, so I understand precision and repetition.

Elliott Gould

#9. I am an expressionist and by that I mean that I'm not a photographer or a writer or a painter or a tap dancer, but rather someone who expresses himself according to his needs.

Duane Michals

#10. I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.

Nigel Lythgoe

#11. A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.

Eleanor Powell

#12. I'm a tap dancer. Once you're a tap dancer, you're always a tap dancer. In 'After Midnight,' I get to dance, but I don't do a full tap number.

Dule Hill

#13. Love? Love is like holding water in your hands. You might have it for a time, but it escapes, leaving you with nothing.

Laura Lam

#14. Nothing less than 7 inches.

Cassandra Clare

#15. Elephants seek food elsewhere if their route is blocked, and raiding crops and grain stores brings them into conflict with people, often resulting in deaths on both sides.

Mark Shand

#16. Function is a fantasy ... the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.

David Pye

#17. The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive.

Zack Snyder

#18. Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.

Julian Fellowes

#19. Ugh, they've been at it all day," Fitz grumbled. "It's been hours of 'Look - I'm invisible. Now I'm not! Now I am!'" Biana rolled her eyes as she reappeared. "Like you were any less annoying with your 'I can tell you what you're thinking right now! And now! And now!

Shannon Messenger

#20. I know the Muslim psychology. It is all pomposity and bravado. I give you my word that if Islam is ridiculed publicly and systematically, it will be defeated. Shame is a great motivator as well as deterrent. Do not underestimate the power of ridicule. This is serious stuff not a laughing matter.

Ali Sina

#21. You have your opinion, I have mine, and it takes all kinds of nuts and dips to make a party, right?

Natalie Angier

#22. Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on.

James Cagney

#23. Where is your sense of patriotism?
I keep it hid away safe, along with my sense of trust, Mr. Clent. I don't use 'em much in case they get scratched.

Frances Hardinge

#24. But today the quickest way to save your bottom line is to cut off research.

Amar Bose

#25. I grew up as a dancer. I did tap, classical ballet, all of that. I did Indian dancing, or Bharata Natyam, classic temple dancing from Madras, originally. My mother always had the great idea that I should learn it.

Roselee Goldberg

#26. How does the Authority usually handle storms like this?"
"Not well.

Devon Monk

#27. We've always been a band that stood up for what we thought was right.

Jeff Ament

#28. Carpenter: "Call Shen Te, someone! She's good!"
Shui Ta: "Certainly. She's ruined.

Bertolt Brecht

#29. We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

Warren Farrell