Twyla Tharp Quotes

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

I can't be a slave to the machine, you feel like you're in the matrix.

The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it in the most astonishing ways.

Our bodies are the time machine.

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

There's lots of ways people can be dependent, on another person, or drugs.

We are, all of us, creatures of habit, and when the seeeming necessity for schooling ourselves in new ways ceases to exist, we fall naturally and easily into the manner and customs which long usage has implanted ineradicably within us.

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

Our body is a machine for living.

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.

Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative human effort. If not, the machine can destroy us.

Following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.

The reason I'm painting this way is that I want to be a machine, and I feel that whatever I do and do machine-like is what I want to do.

Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.

She got the way to move me, Cherry, she got the way to groove me.

If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.

If you wanna know the truth, you make or break my day. If you wanna know the truth, I wouldn't have it any other way.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

The universe... is a machine for the making of gods.

Pina Bausch's motto was "Dance, otherwise we are lost." She really meant it, that dance was her answer to life and to the troubles and to the problems that can arise. That was her way to deal with everything, to dance.

I am filled with hatred for money, for battleships, for industry, for factories, for the grind, grind, grind of the machine on all our creative instincts.

"It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet."