Quotes by Agnes de Mille
“I learned three important things in college - to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any given time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.”— Agnes de Mille
“The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.”— Agnes de Mille
“To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.”— Agnes de Mille
“Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.”— Agnes de Mille
“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.”— Agnes de Mille
“A good education is not so much one that prepares a man to succeed in the world, as one that enables him to sustain a failure.”— Agnes de Mille
“The artist is the only one who knows he's cheating. The honest artist is the one who is never satisfied.”— Agnes de Mille
“Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.”— Agnes de Mille