Susanne Langer Quotes

The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions into a play of visible forces in unbroken, virtual time...Both space and time, as perceptible factors, disappear almost entirely in the dance illusion.

Susanne Langer

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• Dance
• Audience
• Force
• Illusion
• Disappear
• Dancer

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• Let me clarify it through the national news agency that I am not joining Aam Aadmi Party. There has been reports that I will be officially joining AAP, but I can assure you that nothing of that sort is happening.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Party
  • News
  • Agency

• The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Italian
  • Combination
  • Potatoes

• Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Long
  • Liberty

• The thing about being an actor is that you're acting. It's not that big of a deal of to play someone different from yourself.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Different
  • Play
  • Acting

• If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.

  

  Gary McCord
  • World
  • Different
  • Remember

• The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Children
  • Death
  • Opportunity

• It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.

  

  Becky G
  • People
  • Different
  • Age

• You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.

  

  Gary Player
  • Game
  • Play
  • Golf

• There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Diversity
  • Rights

• I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down – no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Try
  • Read

• Looking at the trends that we have gone through as a company, where we started the company, it's all about cloud computing, and we're still cloud computing. And then we went through this space on social. When Facebook came out, that was amazing.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Space
  • Amazing
  • Looking

• My friends are very opinionated about the people I date.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Friends
  • Date

• Our music's got flavor; it's got skill. And we present it really well.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Music
  • Present
  • Skill

• I mean, I would say I get five or six e-mails every day from people asking, "Is there going to be a Leprechaun 6?' It's probably the most asked question besides, 'Is there going to be a Willow II?'

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Question
  • Day

• I've made a lot of game-winners.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Made
  • Lot

• My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Good
  • Positive
  • Advice

• The leading cause of death for girls 15 to 19 worldwide is not accident or violence or disease; it is complications from pregnancy. Girls under 15 are up to five times as likely to die while having children than are women in their 20s, and their babies are more likely to die as well.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Women
  • Children

• Would you just strap some toe shoes on and dance 'Swan Lake?' No. Would you just put a violin in your hand and - ? No. I felt that way about acting, and I was taught to feel that way. I didn't come to it on my own.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Hand
  • Dance
  • Shoes

• Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Play
  • Hands
  • Fate

• A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • True
  • Always
  • Never

• I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Experience
  • Advice
  • Grandchildren

• Even if a woman is abused a very long time ago, it comes out in her life in a negative way.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Woman
  • Negative
  • Abused

• The dancer, or dancers, must transform the stage for the audience as well as for themselves into an autonomous, complete, virtual realm, and all motions into a play of visible forces in unbroken, virtual time...Both space and time, as perceptible factors, disappear almost entirely in the dance illusion.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Play
  • Dance
  • Audience