Quote by Isadora Duncan
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking. – Isadora Duncan

Other quotes by Isadora Duncan

Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply, In my mothers womb, probably as a result of the oysters and champagne – the food of Aphrodite. – Isadora Duncan

Category:
Dance, Dancing
Read Quote

I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me. – Isadora Duncan

Category:
Theater
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Dance, Dancing
category

Nothing is more revealing than movement. – Martha Graham

Category:
Dance, Dancing

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware. – David Byrne

Category:
Dance, Dancing

You need to get in touch with your body … do dance, movement, learn to be supple, or be someone whos coordinated, preferably. You have to study, train, and you dont have to go to school necessarily, you can teach yourself a lot of stuff. – Jacqueline Bisset

Category:
Dance, Dancing

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Dance, Dancing

Random Quotes

Heres the good news. If I realize that Im insane, then Im okay with it. Im not dangerous insane. – Charlie Sheen

Category:
good

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground. – Miguel de Cervantes

Category:
Fear

The best kind of alarm clock is the purring kind. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Cats

Who knew Rob Lowe was funny? On Parks and Rec, weve got some of the funniest comedy writers, some of the funniest comedians in the world working there. And if anything, we dont just effuse to one another and be like, Oh, Rob Lowes really funny, if he wasnt. – Chris Pratt

Category:
funny