Isadora Duncan Quotes

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

Isadora Duncan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dancer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 26, 1877 - September 14, 1927

Topics

WorkHard WorkBeautifulArtSimple

For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase.

Jhumpa Lahiri

StoryThinkThoughtTryWritePlot

All living things come hardwired with certain traits and characteristics that are part of our nature, meaning that these things come naturally to us: they're what we're meant to do, and they're how universal intelligence flows though us best. Birds gotta fly, fish gotta swim, etc.

Jen Sincero

NatureBestIntelligenceBirdsFly

I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division of space, of the combination of straight lines in relation to curved ones.

Max Beckmann

SpaceThinkDivisionWonderfulLeg

When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.

Andy Kaufman

SharingPersonalAudienceRoomLike

Growing up as a gay boy in West Texas, I definitely felt like a bit of an outcast sometimes - that there was a world that I would never be a part of.

Michael Arden

Growing UpWorldTexasGaySometimes

The players are under so much duress, it's like duressic park out there!

Sid Waddell

OutParkPlayersLikeMuchDuress

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Tom Wilson

HappinessEnjoyYouDependMuchHow

For as Jews, the problem happens to be more urgent and vital than for others; because the destruction of religion on America will involve the destruction also of the religious training of freedom; and with that our civil liberties.

Louis Finkelstein

FreedomReligionTrainingProblem

My family, the support of my friends, the amount of people that have written and come up to me on the street and said, 'Thank you for representing us,' and Adam Lambert, and Lady Gaga, that's been amazing.

Johnny Weir

FamilySupportPeopleAmazingMe

The way Ben Gibbard paints a picture, you feel like, 'I was there that day with him.' You really feel the way he paints pictures and speaks and talks. It's almost like talk-singing. Paul Simon does that very well as well. He's a huge influence of mine.

Jon Bellion

DayInfluencePictureFeelYouWay

I'm grateful for all of our fans because at the end of the day, they give us purpose.

Christen Press

DayGratefulPurposeEndFansUs

I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.

Christina Aguilera

EyesSingingLadyWantOldOld Lady

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