Martha Graham Quotes

The only sin is mediocrity.

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• My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • People
  • Government
  • Turn

• The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Love
  • Child
  • Angel

• I sat in the green room at Radio City Music Hall for the 2006 NFL Draft. At my table, I was encircled by my parents, brother, agent, former coaches and close friends.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Parents

• You might say that I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Business
  • You
  • Dress

• 'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Feeling
  • Powerful
  • Deep

• Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Taken
  • Positive
  • Growth

• Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Love
  • Kids

• Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Nothing
  • More
  • Diamonds

• Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Psychology

• I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Love
  • Girl
  • Boy

• I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Imagination
  • Doing
  • Sea

• It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Know
  • Best
  • Do Your Best

• The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Hand
  • Focus
  • Sometimes

• Jews can build in New York, Moscow and Paris, but in our own land, we can't build? That's nuts.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • New York
  • Paris
  • Jews

• We loved with a love that was more than love.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Love
  • Loved
  • More

• My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Life
  • You
  • My Life

• Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer; there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Long

• A. A violent order is disorder; and B. A great disorder is an order. These Two things are one.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Great

• I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Work
  • Long
  • Ambition

• I live in Los Angeles where there is not that much in the way of theatre, so the La Jolla Playhouse is pretty much the only place that is on my radar, and when they have something going on, and I am available, I will certainly go in.

  

  Jimmi Simpson
  • Live
  • Pretty
  • Theatre

• The Mexico - United States border was always porous. People have been going and coming back since before the Spaniards arrived. Now we're seeing communities who have family members on the other side very frightened. I feel saddened for those families divided by violence. The whole border area is under siege.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Community
  • Violence

• Do not trust someone who he does not trust anyone.

  

  Arturo Graf
  • Trust
  • Anyone

• The Tour de France is a wicked sport in the way that it's not just man against man or woman against woman; it's not flesh against flesh. It's flesh against machine.

  

  Ben Foster

• The only sin is mediocrity.

  

  Martha Graham