Nicholas Hope quotes

“Swing is so much more than a dance, it's a way of life. The music gets stuck in your mind and the dance is in your heart and the whole scene is engraved on your soul. You can fly.”
-- Nicholas Hope

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“Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.”

“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.”

“No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.”

Source : A. C. Green (1994). “Victory”, Creation House

“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”

“But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts”

“The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.”

“Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.”

“Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.”

“Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.”

“Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.”

Source : Alfred Noyes (1911). “Drake. The enchanted island. New poems”