Plutarch Quotes

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel.

Plutarch

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• Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Dad
  • Always
  • Dance

• Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing.

  

  Jacob Artist
  • Love
  • You
  • Dance

• I moved to London to go to dance school when I was about 17, but then I realized that I didn't want to be a dancer anymore, so I dropped out after five or six weeks. All I wanted to do was sing and make music.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Music
  • School
  • Dance

• If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Relationship
  • Dance
  • Learn

• I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Music
  • Style
  • Find

• I fell through a stage once. I was doing a truly African dance, and all of a sudden, I hit the ground with my foot and went straight through the stage. I guess they didn't have much money, so the floor was kind of rotting.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Money
  • Dance
  • Doing

• Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Rock

• I suppose I've got a natural rhythm. When I was little, I used to just dance a lot and have some fun. I'd never been taught to dance. I've never been to dance school. I do my own little dance moves.

  

  Olly Murs
  • School
  • Fun
  • Dance

• The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Age
  • Strong
  • Dance

• I like my stationery to be funnier, like, 'Here's my note, and it's an elephant with a lady smoking a cigarette on top.'

  

  Kate Spade
  • Smoking
  • Lady
  • Elephant

• I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Focus

• I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I'll dance.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Music
  • Play
  • Dance

• From a very young age, music was very much in my house. I would sit with my mom, with the old LPs, listening to The Beatles and Carly Simon and Lionel Richie. The old LPs used to have the lyrics. From there, I would put on dance and music displays for my family, just to entertain them and make people laugh and smile.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • People
  • Music
  • Family

• I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing - dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Love
  • Memories

• I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Life
  • Words
  • Dance

• I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Song
  • Dance
  • Feel

• I was determined to dance. That's why I lasted so long.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Long
  • Why
  • Dance

• Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an out-of-tune playing 'Melancholy Baby' and you've got dance music.

  

  Artie Shaw
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Baby

• George Klein says that Elvis had five real friends outside of his circle, and I was blessed to be one of them. I spent a lot of time with Elvis in Vegas and at Graceland.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Time
  • Real
  • Friends

• No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.

  

  Chen Guangcheng
  • Good
  • Future

• Growing up, I played football and was always one of the best on the team.

  

  Jake Paul
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Team

• Throughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word 'school' - and its equivalent in all European languages - derives from a Greek word meaning 'leisure.'

  

  Peter Drucker
  • School
  • Greek

• What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel.

  

  Plutarch
  • Dance
  • Elephant