Trisha Brown famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

  • Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

  • I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.

  • Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.

  • I accommodated practically all of the liberation movements, including those of Latin America.

  • I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

  • Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

  • I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

  • The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

  • There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves