// ============================================== // Copyright 2004 by CodeLifter.com // Free for all; but please leave in this header. // ============================================== var Quotation=new Array() Quotation[0] = "There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. ~ Edwin Denby"; Quotation[1] = "I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche"; Quotation[2] = "Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. ~ Dave Barry"; Quotation[3] = "Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. ~ Sweetpea Tyler"; Quotation[4] = "Dancers are the messengers of the gods. ~ Martha Graham"; Quotation[5] = "Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. ~ Faith Whittlesey"; Quotation[6] = "Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. ~ Samuel Beckett"; Quotation[7] = "To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. ~ Derrick 'Suwaima' Davis, Hopi/Choctaw Indian"; Quotation[8] = "Do it big, do it right, and do it with style. ~ Fred Astaire"; Quotation[9] = "If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement. ~ Fred Astaire"; Quotation[10] = "Let's face the music and dance. ~ Irving Berlin"; Quotation[11] = "I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far. ~ Neil Simon"; Quotation[12] = "Why, I say, should I ever have bitterly blamed my [my body] for such trifles as I have blamed it for: for having too much flesh in this spot, too little muscle in that, for producing this wrinkle, that sag, that gray hair, or this texture? Dear body! My dear body! It has gone about its incessant business with very little thanks. - Janet Burroway"; Quotation[13] = "Great ideas originate in the muscles. ~ Thomas A. Edison"; Quotation[14] = "Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. ~ Thomas A. Edison"; Quotation[15] = "If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much room. ~ Lorraine Teel"; Quotation[16] = "What I wanted to be when I grew up was in charge. ~ Wilma Vaught"; Quotation[17] = "I've been known to twinkle a toe or two. ~ Gene Kelly as Danny McGuire in 'Xanadu'"; Quotation[18] = "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. ~ Miss Piggy"; Quotation[19] = "Make it big. Do it right. Give it class. ~ Louis B. Mayer"; Quotation[20] = "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. ~ e.e. cummings"; Quotation[21] = "...you don't live your life, but life lives you. Life is the dancer, and you are the dance. ~ Eckhart Tolle"; Quotation[22] = "And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. ~ Lee Anne Womack"; Quotation[23] = "Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine. ~ Oliver Sacks"; Quotation[24] = "The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.. ~ Merce Cunningham"; Quotation[25] = "Ever tried, ever failed, no matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett"; Quotation[26] = "You want to have butterflies in your stomach. Because if you don't, if you go out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing. ~ Joan Jett"; Quotation[27] = "Thousands of emotions well up inside me throughout the day. They are released when I dance. ~ Abraham Lincoln"; Quotation[28] = "Dancers are the athletes of God. ~ Albert Einstein"; Quotation[29] = "Dancing is the only activity in which almost all ages and both sexes participate. ~ Margaret Mead"; Quotation[30] = "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing. ~ Duke Ellington"; Quotation[31] = "Stay with the beat and move your feet, do it til you feel the heat ~ Sister Carol"; Quotation[32] = "The truest expression of a people is in its dance. ~ Agnes de Mille"; Quotation[33] = "You can dance anywhere. Even if only in your heart. ~ Unknown"; Quotation[34] = "First comes the sweat, then comes the beauty. ~ George Balanchine"; Quotation[35] = "Practice means to perform over and over and over again, in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, faith, or desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. ~ Martha Graham"; Quotation[36] = "The dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed ... in any other way than by dancing. ~ Doris Humphrey"; Quotation[37] = "You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. ~ Indira Gandhi"; Quotation[38] = "Give me something to dance about and I'll dance it. ~ Jerome Robbins"; Quotation[39] = "Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most is the death of imagination and originality and metaphor and passion. Then be bold and LOVE YOUR BODY. STOP FIXING IT. It was never broken. ~ Marion Woodman"; Quotation[40] = "Everything you see I owe to spaghetti. ~ Sophia Loren"; Quotation[41] = "The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. ~ Diana Vreeland"; Quotation[42] = "All we demanded was our right to twinkle. ~ Marilyn Monroe"; Quotation[43] = "We (belly dancers) may be old but we will never be matronly. We're gonna skip that stop on the train. ~ Alia Thabit"; Quotation[44] = "Ring the bells that can still ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. ~ Leonard Cohen"; Quotation[45] = "When barriers are put in front of you, it's God or the universe asking you to remember who you are, and reminding you not to let yourself be defined by things outside of you. ~ Christine Ebersole"; Quotation[46] = "Dance is the greatest gift that ever was made for the purification of the soul. ~ Shaker saying"; Quotation[47] = "Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing. ~ James Brown"; Quotation[48] = "The only thing you owe the public is a good performance. ~ Humphrey Bogart"; Quotation[49] = "It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~ George Eliot"; Quotation[50] = "I wear the zills, so I make the rules. ~ Carrara Nour"; Quotation[51] = "Life's about little more than knowing what's right for you and getting on with it. ~ Hal Rubenstein"; Quotation[52] = "Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. ~ Henry Ford"; Quotation[53] = "Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries. ~ Theodore Roethke"; Quotation[54] = "Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. ~ Rumi"; Quotation[55] = "I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. ~ Mikhail Baryshnikov"; Quotation[56] = "I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me. ~ Shirley MacLaine"; Quotation[57] = "You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough. ~ Joe E. Lewis"; Quotation[58] = "You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face...You must do the thing you think you cannot do. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt"; Quotation[59] = "I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~ Diane Ackerman"; Quotation[60] = "Show up fully. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Let go of the outcome. ~ Diane Israel"; Quotation[61] = "Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. ~ Helen Keller"; Quotation[62] = "I liked those ladies! They were helpers, and they danced.' These are the words I want on my gravestone: that I was a helper, and that I danced." ~ Anne Lamott"; // ====================================== // Do not change anything below this line // ====================================== var Q = Quotation.length; var whichQuotation=Math.round(Math.random()*(Q-1)); function showQuotation(){ document.write(Quotation[whichQuotation]);}