Dancer Quotes - Page 17

• In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a clerk, a referee, a clown, a counselor, a dress-code enforcer, a conductor, an apologist, a philosopher, a collaborator, a tap dancer, a politician, a therapist, a fool, a traffic cop, a priest, a mother-father-brother-sister-uncle-aunt, a bookeeper, a critic, a psychologist, the last straw.

  Frank McCourt

  Mother, Brother, Uncles

  Frank McCourt (2005). “Teacher Man: A Memoir”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.

  Ben Okri

  Spirit, Afraid To Love, Strength And Wisdom

  Ben Okri (2014). “A Way of Being Free”, p.51, Head of Zeus

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• Poetry began in the matriarchal age, and derives its magic from the moon, not from the sun. No poet can hope to understand the nature of poetry unless he has had a vision of the Naked King crucified to the lopped oak, and watched the dancers, red-eyed from the acrid smoke of the sacrificial fires, stamping out the measure of the dance, their bodies bent uncouthly forward, with a monotonous chant of "Kill! kill! kill!" and "Blood! blood! blood!

  Robert Graves

  Kings, Moon, Fire

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• What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked. Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us." "Sure," said Magnus. "And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour." Alec looked puzzled. "Who's Madonna?" "Who's the Queen of the Seelie Court?" said Clary. "She is the Queen of Faerie," said Magnus. "Well, the local one, anyway." Jace put his head in his hands. "Tell Isabelle no." "But she thinks it's a good idea," Alec protested. "Then tell her no twice.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, Thinking, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.543, Simon and Schuster

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• you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers!

  James Patterson

  Wings, Ballet, Ballet Dancer

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• I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

  Paulo Coelho

  Thinking, Reaching Up, Sky

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• The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill.

  T. S. Eliot

  Humility, Sea, House

  1940 Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.2.

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• The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Soul, Body

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• They walked to school, talking about how much they were longing for the summer holidays. "Oh, I am planning things," said Jamie. "Great, great things. I could join a band." "You gave up the guitar after two lessons." "Well," he said, "I could be a backup dancer." "Backup dancers have to wear belly shirts and glitter," said Mae. "So obviously, I support this plan.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Summer, School, Holiday

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.220, Simon and Schuster

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• Well . . ." St. Vincent walked slowly with her to the crowd of dancers. "I'm a wicked man who can, on occasion, be just a bit nice. And I've been searching for a nice girl who can, on occasion, be just a bit wicked.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Girl, Nice, Men

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “It Happened One Autumn: Number 2 in series”, p.121, Hachette UK

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• Cats are the lap-dancers of the animal world. Soon as you stop shelling out, they move on, find another lap. They're furry little sociopaths. Pretty and slick -- in love with themselves. When's the last time you saw a seeing-eye cat?

  Andrew Vachss

  Moving, Cat, Eye

  Andrew Vachss (2001). “Safe House”, p.244, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.

  Elton John

  Today, Tiny, Busy

  Song: Tiny Dancer

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• No one is born a dancer. You have to want it more than anything.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Want, Born

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.

  Judith Jamison

  Silence, Looks, Body

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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• He moves like a dancer.

  Lisa McMann

  Moving

  Lisa McMann (2011). “Cryer's Cross”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• And even this heart of mine has something artificial. The dancers have sewn it into a bag of pink satin, pink satin slightly faded, like their dancing shoes.

  Edgar Degas

  Heart, Shoes, Dancing

  Nathalia Brodskaya, Edgar Degas (2012). “Edgar Degas”, p.125, Parkstone International

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• Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and acrobat knows enough to let the mind go, let the body run itself. Every driver of a manual vehicle arrives at destinations with no recollection of the stops and turns and roads traveled in getting there. You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.

  Peter Watts

  Running, Climbing, Creative

  Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.302, Macmillan

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• Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of the long, crepuscular verses of Díaz Casanueva; in that language in which Joaquín Edwards preaches nationalism. My discourse is profound; I speak with eloquence and seduction; my words, more than from me, issue from the warm nights, from the many solitary nights on the Red Sea, and when the tiny dancer puts her arm around my neck, I understand that she understands. Magnificent language!

  Pablo Neruda

  Night, Issues, Sea

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• My peer would have to be dark-haired and handsome, a wonderful dancer... and he would never ask permission before he kissed me." -Lillian Bowman

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dark, Peers, Handsome

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• The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Together, Littles, Actresses

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Mar 25, 2013

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• What did Isabelle want?" Jace asked. Alec hesitated. "Isabelle says the Queen of the Seelie Court has requested an audience with us." "Sure," said Magnus. "And Madonna wants me as a backup dancer on her next world tour.

  Cassandra Clare

  Queens, World, Want

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.543, Simon and Schuster

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• Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Girl, Country, Princess

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• I dream dark dreams. I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying from his path, of young women crying at his coming. I dream of snow and ice, of bare branches and moon-cast shadows. I dream of dancers floating in the air, stepping lightly even in death, and my own pain is but a faint echo of their suffering as I run. My blood is black on the snow, and the edges of the world are silvered with moonlight. I run into the darkness, and he is waiting. I dream in black and white, and I dream of him. I dream of Caleb, who does not exist, and I am afraid.

  John Connolly

  Running, Dream, Pain

  John Connolly (2015). “Dark Hollow: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Wire, Acting

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• ...and our footsteps rang and echoed till it sounded like the room was full of dancers, the house calling up all the people who had danced here across centuries of spring evenings, gallant girls seeing gallant boys off to war, old men and women straight-backed while outside their world disintegrated and the new one battered at their doors, all of them bruised and all of them laughing, welcoming us into their long lineage.

  Tana French

  Girl, Spring, War

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