"There's no thinking involved in my choreography... I don't work through images or ideas. I work through the body... If the dancer dances, which is not the same as having theories about dancing or wishing to dance or trying to dance, everything is there. When I dance, it means: this is what I am doing."

-- Merce Cunningham

#Dance Quotes #Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Softness of smile indicates softness of character.”

Source : "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, New-York: re-printed by T. and J. Swords, for Berry and Rogers, Hanover-Square, 1790.
“It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a mater of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry.”

Source : "Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.
“Sex acts don't drive erotica, the people who engage in them do.”
“Just a few thousand Hezbollah fighters set two countries on fire all by themselves. Don't discount what bloody mayhem and hell a few thousand armed Druze, Christians, and Sunni can do if they decide to go hunting Shia in revenge for destroying their country.”
“A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.”

Source : Joseph Roth (2002). “The Radetzky March”, p.206, The Overlook Press
“Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.”
“The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August day. In retrospect, it seems inevitable - it could not have been any other way-- a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable”
“I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.”

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