Martha Graham Quotes

Many times I hear the phrase 'the dance of life'. It is an expression that touches me deeply, for the instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived - the human body.

Martha Graham

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• We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Great
  • Long

• My first vocation was dance.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Dance
  • First
  • Vocation

• I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• The right of all of our citizens to enjoy fair and equal access to housing opportunities is guaranteed by our laws. The U.S. Department of Justice is committed to fiercely protecting those rights in order to ensure the quality of life all Americans deserve.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Justice

• Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Day
  • Gift

• There's more to life than cheek bones.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • More
  • Bones

• When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Life
  • Time
  • Fight

• I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Faith

• That point of life when I learned I could cook, that always made me understand what cooks felt like feeding other people. It's okay to receive, but it's really cool to give, so food is to me sexy because it's the fact that someone is giving it to someone else.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Giving

• I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.

  

  Jack Black
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Life
  • Free
  • You

• I was anxious before I decided to go back to acting about what I wanted to do with my life. Once I realized I was sort of interested in acting, I've been pretty lucky and had all these great parts. And I feel pretty much like, 'What will happen will happen.'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Life
  • Great
  • Pretty

• Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Life
  • Disease
  • Life Is A

• Where there is love there is life.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • Love
  • For Her

• New experiences give you new perspectives on life.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • You
  • Experiences

• In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • World
  • Today
  • Education

• There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Life
  • Business
  • Trust

• Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Love

• If you're just interested in the prestige of banking, that's not what's going to sustain you. You have to be interested in what we do: managing and originating capital, helping issuers and investors come together is great, bringing these companies to life.

  

  James P. Gorman
  • Life
  • Great
  • Together

• Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.

  

  Kathy Valentine
  • Life
  • Different
  • Live

• While life lasts, I am an evangelist.

  

  John Mott
  • Life

• The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

  

  Pete du Pont
  • Up
  • Age
  • Sea

• Many times I hear the phrase 'the dance of life'. It is an expression that touches me deeply, for the instrument through which the dance speaks is also the instrument through which life is lived - the human body.

  

  Martha Graham
  • Life
  • Dance