Quotes About Movement

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion.

All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man--the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be.

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

Think of the magic of the foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery

You can be Eastern or Burmese or what have you, but the function of the body and the awareness of the body results in dance and you become a dancer, not just a human being.

Always remember there is more to be lost from standing still than there ever was from risking it all.

How humans decide what to do with their arms on a second by second basis, I still have no idea

Humans and augmented humans shift their weight when they stand, they react to sudden sounds and bright lights, they scratch themselves, they adjust their hair, they look in their pockets or bags to check for things that they already know are in there.

It takes courage to be happy, you know-even when you keep moving. It takes guts to accept things as they really are and not blame life for being what it is.

The sound of the in-crowd was no longer folk or jazz but the bouncing rhythms of rock and roll

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving.

Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.

In the Enlightenment-type movements, leaders saw human reason progressively replacing the earlier appeal to the Bible or churchly authority.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history

I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian.

Is it not a magical thing, this life, when just a little ash, cinder, and unclear water can arrange themselves into a beautiful old woman who sways, lifts, kisses, loves, sickens, argues, loses, bears up under it all, and, wrinkling, still lives under all that and yet feeds the Holy in Nature by just the way she moves barefoot down a path?

get yourself a good bed and a good pair of shoes, because if you ain't in one, you are in the other.

On the surface, it seems absurd that an animal as big as a horse would be afraid of anything, let alone a fluttering piece of paper. Yet most horses are real scaredy-cats, easily frightened by objects they can't readily identify, especially if these things are moving.

As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.

Looking down I saw the cat Basket touching me with one of her paws. I hadn't seen her move, though she was a good six

poured water into a basin. He moved the basin to the table. Julia reached for the water hesitantly. "Let me help." Rafe pulled a chair around the corner of the wooden plank

Let the tent be struck.