Leeuw Quotes & Sayings

I've become saucy. — Emma Bunton

Tabloids are going to focus on my shoes and not my music; that's just what they do. — Taylor Momsen

Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement and countermovement, sings and speaks simultaneously ... — Gerard Van Der Leeuw

People love to talk, so let them have fun talking. — Catherine Hardwicke

But gardening is none of that, really. Strip away the gadgets and the techniques, the books and the magazines and the soil test kits, and what you're left with, at the end of the day, is this: a stretch of freshly turned dirt, a handful of seeds scratched into the surface, and a marker to remember where they went. It is at the same time an incredibly brave and an incredibly simple thing to do, entrusting your seeds to the earth and waiting for them to rise up out of the ground to meet you. — Amy Stewart

In the dance the boundaries between body and soul are effaced. The body moves itself spiritually, the spirit bodily. — Gerard Van Der Leeuw

Wasn't it thrilling when the U.S. Women's team took home the gold in gymnastics? A group of American teenagers getting a higher score than Chinese kids? That never happens. — Jay Leno

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves. — Havelock Ellis

None of my friends call me L.C. That was just a high school nickname, and nobody refers to me like that anymore. — Lauren Conrad

The dance is the most universal of the arts, since, as Goethe justly said, it could destroy all the fine arts. It is an expression of all the emotions of the spirit, from the lowest to the highest. It accompanies and stimulates all the processes of life, from hunting and farming to war and fertility, from love to death. It enables, in turn other arts to come into being: music, song, drama. Despite all their riches, the dance is no formless complex, but a simple unity. — Gerard Van Der Leeuw

Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self. — Margery Wilson

The art of beautiful motion is far and away the oldest. Before man learned how to use any instruments at all, he moved the most perfect instrument of all, his body. He did this with such abandon that the cultural history of prehistoric and ancient man is, for the most part, nothing but the history of the dance. — Gerard Van Der Leeuw

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. — Charles Baudelaire

Because it was Noah and no one else, Gansey could admit, "I don't know what I'll do if I find him, Noah. I don't know what I'll be if I'm not looking for him. I don't know the first thing about how to be that person again."
Noah put the clay in Gansey's hands. "That's exactly how I feel about the idea of being alive again. — Maggie Stiefvater

The surrender of oneself to a stronger power, the unification of one's own movements with the movements of the whole is what makes dance religious and lets it become a service of God. — Gerard Van Der Leeuw