Quotations

"If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel."

— Bette Midler, American singer, born 1945

"If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?"

— Bette Midler, American singer, born 1945

"In a world created with the letter beis (two) suggesting duality, there is a continuous cycle of life. Nature is continually creating and destroying, building and pulling down in one continuous rhythmical motion.
In the cycle of life, there is birth growth, maturity, and death, which gives rise to new life, birth, growth, maturity, and then eventual death. "A generation goes and a generation comes." (Koheles 1:4)
Yet, whether the great cycle of life is on the upturn or downturn we, as co-creators in the creation, can participate and either help move creation towards birth and healthier growth, or move it further along decay. The choice is ours!"

— Midrash (Rabbah)

"Every time I decide I want a child I get another pet. I have 3 dogs, 13 birds and 3 horses, what does that tell you?"

— Alyssa Milano, American actress, born 1972

"Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped."

— Glenda Millard, Australian writer

"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it."

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet, born 1892

"God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart."

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet, born 1892

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell."

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet, born 1892

"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light!"

— Edna St. Vincent Millay, American poet, born 1892

"A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head."

— Agnes de Mille, American dancer, born 1905

"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, American dancer, born 1905

"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. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."

— Agnes de Mille, American dancer, born 1905

"Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down and kissed him. And the world cracked open."

— Agnes de Mille, American dancer, born 1905

"Great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while struggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain."

— Agnes de Mille, American dancer, born 1905