"Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion." — Agnes de Mille, American dancer, born 1905
"The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously." — Agnes de Mille, American dancer, born 1905
"The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary." — Agnes de Mille, American dancer, born 1905
"If a mother respects both herself and her child from his very first day onward, she will never need to teach him respect for others." — Alice Miller, Swiss psychologist, born 1923
"The only possible recourse a baby has when his screams are ignored is to repress his distress, which is tantamount to mutilating his soul, for the result is an interference with his ability to feel, to be aware, and to remember." — Alice Miller, Swiss psychologist, born 1923
"Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder." — Alice Miller, Swiss psychologist, born 1923
"Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in the desperate fantasies of a child who is searching for a way out of a hopeless situation." — Alice Miller, Swiss psychologist, born 1923
"Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings." — Alice Miller, Swiss psychologist, born 1923
"Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on." — Alice Miller, Swiss psychologist, born 1923
"Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value." — Arthur Miller, American playwright, born 1915
"Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven." — Arthur Miller, American playwright, born 1915
"A recent police study found that you're much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run." — Dennis Miller, American comedian, born 1953