#dance

What should we do?", I asked, and I had a pained feeling I thought was the beginning of love. In those early months we clung to each other with a rather silly desperation, because, in spite of everything my mother or Mrs Jordan could say, there was nothing that really prevented us from seeing each other. With imagined tragedy hovering over us, we became inseparable, two halves creating the whole: yin and yang. I was victim to his hero. I was always in danger and he was always rescuing me. I would fall and he would lift me up. It was exhilarating and draining. The emotional effect of saving and being saved was addicting to both of us. And that, as much as anything we ever did in bed, was how we made love to each other: conjoined where my weaknesses needed protection. ↗

— Amy Tan

#hero #love #relationship #victim #imagination

I also dance to music that makes me feel sexy in front of a mirror. ↗

— Alannah Myles

#dance #feel #front #i #makes

In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#accordance #aid #comfort #constitution #deprive

A fine work of art - music, dance, painting, story - has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place. ↗

— Robert McKee

#dance #music #painting #story #art

The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment. ↗

— Jill Robinson

#american dream #avoidance #commitment #dream #ending

When McGwire started the home run mania, attendance came back. The owners understood that the sudden spike in homers wasn't accidental. All baseball knew it. But baseball is run on money, and home runs meant money. Baseball turned a blind eye. ↗

— Gary Sheffield

#attendance #back #baseball #blind #blind eye

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. ↗

— Archie Shepp

#certainly #commercial #dance #drum #element

Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit. ↗

— Gwen Verdon

#beholder #dance #dances #eyes #face

The flow. Yeah. Knowing you could step on the court and make it happen. You practiced, sure. But then, when you walked out there, you could just go. You could flow, that was it: you created and you didn't totally know how. You just knew you could, so you did. It wasn't thinking and it wasn't imitating somebody else's moves, though you always looked carefully when you watched good players play. But when you played... it was something you couldn't explain. Neal used to know. It didn't come from thinking about it. ↗

— Doug Wilhelm

#dance #flow #inspirational #smart #sports

After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy. ↗

— Iris Johansen

#began #books #children #dance #first