No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
AGNES DE MILLE
AGNES DE MILLE
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Agnes de Mille59 quotes“No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.”
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head.
Bill VaughanBill Vaughan Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception.
Bill BrysonBill Bryson I’m learning kite surfing. It’s a little surfboard you have on your feet with straps, and you have a big kite like a power glider in the air that pulls you. You don’t need waves to move, and it makes a big spray of water as you go.
Bertrand PiccardBertrand Piccard You have a 12-foot fence. You know what’ll happen? Thirteen foot ladders.
Bill RichardsonBill Richardson If we take shelter of the lotus feet of the spiritual master, we can become free from illusion, fear and distress. If we wholeheartedly beg for his mercy without any deceit then the spiritual master bestows all auspiciousness upon us.
Bhaktisiddhanta SarasvatiBhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.
Bess Streeter AldrichBess Streeter Aldrich Worship of The Lotus Feet of The Spiritual Master: There is no work as auspicious as serving the spiritual master.
Bhaktisiddhanta SarasvatiBhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati God is preparing His Church to become an invincible, unstoppable, unconquerable, overcoming Army of the Lord that subdues everything under Christ’s feet.
Bill HamonBill Hamon