Amy Purdy Quotes
Dancers know how to move their arms and their hands. But I don't know the first thing about how to move my arms and hands gracefully.
Quotes to Explore
-
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
-
I keep returning to the central question facing over-50 women as we move into our Second Adulthood. What are our goals for this stage in our lives?
-
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.
-
I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
-
A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
-
Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
-
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-
I have been a goof my whole life. I wasn't really the popular girl in school and didn't have any boyfriends in high school because I was a nerd. I was a geek.
-
Political hypocrisy and racism make me hot under the collar.
-
You don't have to wear expensive clothes to look good.
-
I hate seaweed.
-
I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.
-
You have to eventually grow up and take control of your life, which is very hard to do.
-
Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there's a point where it's like, 'Can't you just be a person and have a separate life to your job?'
-
When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed,And the great star early drooped in the western sky in the night,I mourned, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
-
In a knot of eight crossings, which is about the average-size knot, there are 256 different 'over-and-under' arrangements possible... Make only one change in this 'over and under' sequence and either an entirely different knot is made or no knot at all may result.
-
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
-
For God’s sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.
-
The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling.
-
Decisions are made by people who have time, not people who have talent.
-
It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.
-
Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
-
Dancers know how to move their arms and their hands. But I don't know the first thing about how to move my arms and hands gracefully.
