Quotes by Dancers

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet. Isadora Duncan

You Own Way Finest Give Allow Feet Make Child Inheritance

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient. Mikhail Baryshnikov

My childhood is a part of my story, and it's why I'm who I am today and why my career is what it is. Misty Copeland

Today Part Am Childhood Story Who Why Career

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people. Alvin Ailey

People Dance Believe Everybody Back Delivered Always Came Should

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius. Anna Pavlova

Work Alone Genius No-One Talent Talented Arrive Being

I like styling girls that don't normally dress in vintage clothes and don't normally wear red lipstick; I like seeing those kind of girls restyled in a retro way. Dita Von Teese

Girl Clothes Way Those Kind Wear Dress Seeing Red Red Lipstick Like Retro Styling Normally Lipstick Vintage

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity. Isadora Duncan

Opportunity First Spring Out Ten Laws Ten Commandments Within Ready Real Commandments Real Opportunity May Break Breaker Capable Us Certainly Lurks

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. Martha Graham

Heart Dance Every Kind Chart Fever Graph

Nothing is more revealing than movement. Martha Graham

Nothing More Revealing Than Movement

When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope. Matthew Bourne

I'm not interested in how people move, but what moves them. Pina Bausch

People How Move Moves Not Interested Interested Them

In any relationship, even when it came to my relationship with Usher, when it was time to make a move, I had to do that. I don't care how much my heart was hurting, sometimes you're just supposed to be with people for a reason, and it's not always a lifetime. Even if you want it to be, it just doesn't work out that way. Rozonda Thomas

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I'm still growing, still learning. I'm still open and vulnerable enough to know there's much more to be taught to me and learned by me. I hope I don't reach my pinnacle on this earth where I think I know it all. Savion Glover

Hope Me Learning Think Enough Earth More Open Reach Know Learned Vulnerable Still Pinnacle Taught Where Much Growing

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. Ted Shawn

Art Dance Made Ourselves Only Stuff Which

I grew up in a drive-in theater, from the time I was 8, working in a snack bar watching four features every week. It was silent theater in the sense that this was a drive-in, which meant that I often saw the films going with no sound. But I learned to tell stories through action. Twyla Tharp

Time Sense Action Every Films Saw Tell Silent Features Week Through Drive-In Learned Sound Snack Up Going Often Grew Stories Which Bar Theater Working Meant Four Watching

No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. Agnes de Mille

Life Made Important Our Destiny Important Decisions Known Sound Decisions