Martha Graham Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Nobody wants to give up good players.
-
People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.
-
I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
-
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
-
Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
-
I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
-
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
-
I felt giving birth was the most creative act of all my creative acts - literally creation!
-
The list of my favorite experiences would almost equal the list of plays I've been in. There are a few exceptions, but out of politeness I'm not going to mention them. If you don't have a few stinkers, you can't appreciate the good ones.
-
Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
-
There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like Laurence Olivier. So it's very flattering to be in their company.
-
The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
-
A closed mind is a dying mind.
-
When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
-
This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
-
The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.
-
Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.
-
I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
Nastassja Kinski
-
No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.
-
Wine fills the heart with courage.
-
As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgments but rain your kindness equally on all.
-
If I don't get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.
-
[Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way.
-
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
