“We all have the same beginning - birth - and we all have the same end - death. So how different can we be?”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“The more I hear your voice, the more I realize that silence isn’t always golden. Your voice makes me put on my best dancing shoes and celebrate life.”
Source: Safa Tempo: Poems New & Selected
“The next four girls were led from the wall into the centre, where the red blended with the blue and settled into a respectable purple. Again the couples began absorbedly describing circles on the village-hall concrete to the beat of the song that the scrawny singer was enthusiastically belting out”
Source: Busz po polsku
“Jechoota taphachuun humna guddaa qaba
tapha billaa caalaa, ammas isaa
bareedinni jechaa ol ta'a. Isa
damee isaa keessaa bahee miti uumamuu pas de deux, .
akkas lallaafaa, akkas nama hawwatu, .
akkasitti lama gidduutti nama booji’a
jaalalleewwan durii: afaan
fi kan jechoota barreessaa
quill humna guddaa kan”
“It flowed and swam around her, filling her blood, and if she could have done so, she would have melted into the melody, become the rolling drums, the soaring violins, the clashing cymbals with the counter-beat, the horns and reeds with their high-arcing song.
There wasn't enough space inside her for the sound, for all it made her feel- not enough space in her mind, her heart, her body; and all she could do to honour it, worship it, was dance.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“Make him crawl, Mor had said. And she would.
But first she would dance.”
Source: A Court of Silver Flames
“When the music changes, so does the dance”
Source: Pieces of a Broken Mind
“Oh, Biarritz, your nocturnal dance seduces me, beckoning me to surrender to the pulsating rhythm of your streets, to lose myself within the tapestry of your nights!”
Source: Peruvian Days
“Dreaming is easy, hammering out concrete details is hard.”
Source: The Contemporary Circus Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Funding, Producing, Organizing, and Touring Shows for the 21st Century
“If you believe that the show you’re
making will improve the world, there’s nothing saying that your goals and
self-interests and someone else’s goals and interests have to be mutually
exclusive. They can align.”
Source: The Contemporary Circus Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Funding, Producing, Organizing, and Touring Shows for the 21st Century