Denishawn Quotes & Sayings

You can't admit to someone else what you're too damn afraid to admit to yourself. — Beth Lewis

Let me go on sleeping and I will lose myself in palaces of sand, and all the fantasies that I've been keeping will make the empty hours easier to stand. — Billy Joel

With the founding of Denishawn, Ted Shawn stated the artistic creed which was to guide the school, the company and, indeed, his whole life in dance. — Walter Terry

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in much the same way that a lot of people find a home in the military. — Anthony Bourdain

There were bickerings, outright fights, screaming tantrums, but Ted's vision of the Greater Denishawn had come true. — Walter Terry

I feel like a part of my role being a musician and part of why I want to be a musician is to show women an alternative to sort of the cultural norms, the stereotypes of what we're supposed to be, demure and quiet and motherly. — Janet Weiss

The place where the system and people's intentions meet is the political arena. — Peter Garrett

Everyone is entitled to my opinion — Madonna

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it. — Yann Martel

but z he who pursues evil — Anonymous

Slowly I became possessed by the absurd conviction that everything was possible, and it seemed to me that even those deserted streets and that hostile wind smelled of hope. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening. — Laurie Halse Anderson

A central part of the torturer's craft is to make his job easier by stripping the victim of protective dignity. — Jonathan Glover

She said, 'It is filled with all the words for how I want you. — Sarah Waters

Elizabeth, when you look into the darkness you have two choices. You either fall into it, so you'll never fear the unknown again. Or you stay on the ledge, always wondering what's there. Torturing yourself over it. Elizabeth, I live in the abyss, and would like you to leap into the unknown with me. Will you join me? — LeeAnn Whitaker

Only you mattered in that moment. Only you. And I would have done anything to save you. I would have paid any price committed any sin sold my very soul to do it. — Deanna Raybourn

A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness. — Emily Rodda