Beatrice Curtis - Egyptian Dance - Teacher and occasional performer. Details of classes in Surrey and Berkshire plus a students' section with step combinations and tips.
Lets Belly Dance - For students in North Hampshire and Reading. Details of local classes, workshops and events.
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Dance People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Dance
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Dance Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Dance
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Dance The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Dance
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Dance Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Dance
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Dance Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Dance
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Dance He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Dance
"The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Dance The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Dance
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Dance If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Dance
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Dance If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Dance
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Dance The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Dance
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Dance Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Dance
