Mary Hunter Austin Quotes

I like music and I like ladies. I like to see them dance.

I love dancing; my kids love to dance. I think it's just another way for children to learn they can be themselves.

I used to dance, but now I only move.

Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after

We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.

I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life.

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

Laughter or crying is what a human being does when there's nothing else he can do.

We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.

"Is it how she moves, or how she looks?" I say it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as long as she's got noise, she's fine. But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended.

Pieces. A bit for someone here. A bit there. And sometimes they don't add up to anything whole. But you are so busy dancing. Delivering. You don't have time to notice. Or are afraid to notice. And then one day you have to look. And it's true. All of your pieces fill up other people's holes. But they don't fill your own.

If I had to choose, it would be dancing. Dancing is my first passion and it's gotten me where I am today.

No sober person dances.

I’m living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

Lately, I feel like my life is a book written in a language I don't know how to read.

Dancing is why I love music as much as I do and vice-versa, and there aren’t many things better than those two combined.

Dance expresses joy better than anything else.

My baby she'll take a chance, my baby got a brand new dance, Wango Tango, Wango Tango.

I am very sensitive to all form of music, painting, sculpting, dancing, and I love cinema also. For example if I look at the work of the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, who happens to be a friend of mine, everything he does is inspiring to me.

What is fear after all? It is indecision. You seek some way to resist, escape. There is none.

I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

A feeling of violation swayed inside me, making me feel as if Id been shoved off a high platform without warning. I was falling, and I feared the sensation far more than hitting bottom. There was no end; just a constantsense of gravity having its way with me.