The Biggest Dancer in The World

Famous quotes containing the words biggest, dancer and/or world:

    “In everything from athletic ability to popularity to looks, brains, and clothes, children rank themselves against others. At this age [7 and 8], children can tell you with amazing accuracy who has the coolest clothes, who tells the biggest lies, who is the best reader, who runs the fastest, and who is the most popular boy in the third grade.”
    —Stanley I. Greenspan (20th century)

    “‘Come, walk like this,’ the dancer said,
    ‘Stick you your toes—stick in your head,
    Stalk on with quick, galvanic tread—
    Your fingers thus extend;
    The attitude’s considered quaint,’”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)