"If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the discomfort, the sweat and the splendors of that art."

-- Jose Limon

#Art Quotes #Sweat Quotes #Effort Quotes

“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.”
“I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.”

Source : "Toast of the tomb". www.theguardian.com. June 13, 1999.
“It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.”
“Greed will always leave you dissatisfied because you'll never be able to get everything you desire. Greed never allows you to think you have enough; it always destroys you by making you strive ever harder for more.”

Source : Benjamin Blech (2003). “Taking Stock: A Spiritual Guide to Rising Above Life's Financial Ups and Downs”, p.135, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
“Don't forget that few people are likely to tell more than a small part of the truth: no one tells much of the truth, let alone the whole truth. Spoken words are facts in themselves, whether true or false. When people talk they reveal themselves, whether they're lying or telling the truth.”

Source : Halldór Laxness (2005). “Under the Glacier”, Vintage Books
“I remember on a Friday afternoon getting a phone call from Grant Simmons saying, "Mike," we got to be pretty good friends; "Mike, the Sheriff is closing us down on Monday. If you'd like to drive into the studio tomorrow morning, you can have anything you want." So rather than go in and take home piles and piles of cels of Spider-Man what did I take home? Two pages of original art that got sent out to the west coast. Now of course if I'd have taken all the rest of that stuff home I could probably have retired a lot earlier.”
“The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.”
“The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby.”

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