"Try everything once except incest and folk dancing." Sir Thomas Beecham "I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance." e. e. cummings "Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun." Matt Groening "The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops." Sir Robert Helpmann, on the musical "Oh, Calcutta" "To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother." Barry Humphries "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing." Clive James "Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music." Angela Monet "Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance." Ezra Pound "If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you might as well make it dance." George Bernard Shaw s -----Original Message----- From: *** Dave Hill [mailto:davehill47@earthlink.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 8:31 AM To: quotation-ring-l@gunnar.cc Subject: Re: Dancing. > --- Julia Presley <fairyparts@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > Does anyone know of any good quotes that deal with > > the > > subject of dancing? I could not believe in a God that could not dance. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) *** Dave ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them. -- Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801-1890) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~