Sappho Quotes

Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.

Sappho

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• For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.

  

  Warren De la Rue
  • Moon
  • Interest
  • Deeper

• My first vocation was dance.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Dance
  • First
  • Vocation

• 'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Home

• I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Society

• Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Night
  • Party
  • Dance

• When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Dance
  • Listening
  • Quiet

• I lost the ball in the moon.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Lost
  • Moon
  • Ball

• 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

• 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

• When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Night
  • Words
  • Hand

• After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Children

• I don't like the NFL, where I think it's a problem: some guy scores a touchdown, now he's got some kind of dance that he planned. To me, I just want to change the channel.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Guy
  • Change
  • Problem

• I've never seen a single episode of 'So You Think You Can Dance.'

  

  Adam G. Sevani
  • Think
  • Single
  • Never

• I don't think women's prisons are environments for dance routines, and I don't think mass murder is humorous.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Women
  • Think
  • Dance

• 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

• Ryan finally came to my rescue. He'd thought working together in Paper Moon would help us bond.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Together
  • Help
  • Moon

• Dance is a physical and mental workout. Once you get your body moving, you'll see a difference.

  

  Kathryn McCormick
  • Moving
  • Dance
  • Workout

• Internet and mobile product development cycles are measured in months, not years. And the capital required to get a product built and into the market is less than $1 million. And the returns, when things work out, can be enormous.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Work

• It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Real
  • Funny
  • Sparkle

• My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps.

  

  Amanda Harlech
  • Childhood

• I never think about actual things when I'm painting. I'm not thinking, "I'm going to put a person here, a tree here and a bird there." The beginning stage is always the sound. From that, slowly, stories come about based on what I'm reading or thinking at the time, but if I didn't have that sound I don't know what I would do.

  

  Ali Banisadr
  • Thinking
  • Reading
  • Painting

• Dancing up the full moon Round some fair new altar Trample the soft blossoms of fine grass.

  

  Sappho
  • Dance
  • Moon