Elizabeth Streb famous quotes

It's basic research: shoot an arrow in the air. Where it lands, paint a bullseye.
-- Elizabeth Streb

#Air #Land #Arrows

Skip your brain and go right to the gut,
-- Elizabeth Streb

#Brain #Guts #Skip

My investigation of movement has led me to choices which vary from traditional norms. My dancers and I see the rehearsal as a laboratory for testing scientific principles on the body. We invent action ideas which we think are archetypal, noticeable, understandable. The outcome is a mixture of slam dancing, exquisite and amazing human flight and a wild action sport which captures kids, older people and the general public’s hearts and minds and bodies.
-- Elizabeth Streb

#Sports #Kids #Heart

Anything that’s too safe is not action.
-- Elizabeth Streb

#Safe #Action

You have to get beyond the barrier of self-protection before you can really fly.
-- Elizabeth Streb

#Self #Protection #Barriers

When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust.
-- Elizabeth Streb

#Life #Dance #Dream

Anything that’s too safe is not action.
-- Elizabeth Streb

#Safe #Action

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.

During the Battle of Britain the question "fighter or fighter-bomber?" had been decided once and for all: The fighter can only be used as a bomb carrier with lasting effect when sufficient air superiority has been won.

Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of Pain.

O, beautiful and grand, My own, my native land! Of thee I boast: Great empire of the west, The dearest and the best, Made up of all the rest, I love thee most.

A land without ruins is a land without memories - a land without memories is a land without history.

People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think that the Bane entering cottages at daybreak is more monstrous than they are. They feel better then. They find it easier to live.

Jackson is the most consummate sketcher I have ever known. These little panels, handy on the trail, could be handled as easily as an expert marksman uses a quiver full of arrows.

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.