Merce Cunningham Quotes

It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.

Merce Cunningham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 16, 1919 - July 26, 2009

Topics

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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

John Keats

SoulIntelligenceSchoolWorldYou

The video aside, 'P.D.A' is a song about when you really love somebody, you just can't resist wanting to show that out in public sometimes.

John Legend

LoveSongYouSometimesOutJust

I'm a successful businessman.

Robert Kardashian

SuccessfulBusinessman

Everyone deserves music.

Michael Franti

MusicEveryoneDeserves

Equal justice under the law, even if it's your mother. That was a point of admiration in our household. It was drilled into me.

Steve King

MotherJusticeMeLawEqualPoint

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.

Jose Andres

BetterFeelingNothingUpServe

As far as the music goes, I like melody.

Dickey Betts

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It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.

Christopher Darden

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A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates down one side and height along the other, as if trees, like mathematicians, had found a way of turning time into form.

Alice Oswald

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There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

Woodrow Wilson

I AmBlessedForgetPresidentUnited

When I went to do law, I kind of drifted through that and thought, 'I can pass these exams.' And I didn't - I failed three times, and each time I did worse and failed by a bigger margin. And that taught me so much.

Tim Rice

TimeMeLawThoughtI CanThree

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