Dancing Quotes
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Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays. (Quote by - Henny Youngman)
My mother always wanted to be in show business, but her parents discouraged her. So when I started performing for the mirror she enrolled me in dancing, singing and piano lessons. (Quote by - Irene Cara)
Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you. (Quote by - E. T. A. Hoffmann)
Light quirks of music, broken and uneven, Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
I have lots of interests, but it's true that dancing is a very full-time job. (Quote by - Deborah Bull)
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. (Quote by - William Stafford)
They danced by the light of the moon. (Quote by - Edward Lear)
The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one. (Quote by - Ethan Embry)
I would have to challenge the term, modern dance. I don't really use that term in relation to my work. I simply think of it as dancing. I think of it as moving. (Quote by - Twyla Tharp)
David danced before the Lord. (Quote by - Old Testament: II Samuel)
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
Mine is a proud village, such as it is. We are best when dancing. (Quote by - Makah)
When an old man dances, his locks with age are gray, but he's a child in mind. (Quote by - Anaceon)
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. (Quote by - Agnes De Mille)
They love dancing well that dance barefoot upon thorns. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
I sat in at every club in New York City, jamming with musicians, because it felt right - and because it felt right and we were having fun - the people dancing and sipping their drinks in the clubs felt it too and it made them smile. (Quote by - Ray Conniff)
Learn to dance, otherwise the angels in heaven won't know what to do with you. (Quote by - St. Augustine)
I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily. (Quote by - Alexa Vega)
He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
I am a dancer. I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living.... In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
Dancers are the athletes of God. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
In my 50s I'll be dancing at my children's weddings. (Quote by - Michael J. Fox)
To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing. (Quote by - Mikhail Baryshnikov)
When the music changes, so does the dance (Quote by - African Proverb)
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)
If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point dancing it. (Quote by - Isadora Duncan)
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. (Quote by - Thorstein Veblen)
Hot from the hands promiscuously applied, Round the slight waist, or down the glowing side. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. (Quote by - John Milton)
The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. (Quote by - James Brown)
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. (Quote by - William James)
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
The interesting thing is that I found scenes which I put together which could appeal to almost every woman, or apply to almost every woman after the war. Falling in love, dancing, marrying. (Quote by - Maximilian Schell)
I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together. (Quote by - Vanessa Carlton)
Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage. (Quote by - Paul Robeson)
But when you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that. (Quote by - Shakespeare)
He, perfect dancer, climbs the rope, and balances your fear and hope (Quote by - Matthew Prior)
Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round. (Quote by - Milton)
I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there. (Quote by - Fred Astaire)
I get amazed, I can't look at it but about 10 seconds, at these politicians dancing around this, dancing around this, I'm trying to find a correct name for it, this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men. (Quote by - Jimmy Swaggart)
I knew I was happy when I was dancing. (Quote by - Ajay Naidu )
They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head. (Quote by - Terence)
A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows. (Quote by - John Lawson)
The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can. (Quote by - Coleridge)
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. (Quote by - Rod Serling )
Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy. (Quote by - Chubby Checker)
Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance. (Quote by - Wordsworth)
The greater the fool the better the dancer. (Quote by - Theodore Edward Hook)
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room. (Quote by - Kurt Vonnegut)
The dance is strong magic. The dance is a spirit. It turns the body to liquid steel. It makes it vibrate like a guitar. The body can fly without wings. It can sing without voice. The dance is strong magic. The dance is life. (Quote by - Pearl Primus)
When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it. (Quote by - Nusrat F. A. Khan)
So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do. (Quote by - Suzanne Farrell )
A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. (Quote by - Hal Borland)
I never really did any disco dancing. (Quote by - Barry Gibb)
I started formal piano training when I was 4. From there I had little violas, and I had dancing lessons of every sort and description, and painting lessons. I had German. And shorthand. (Quote by - Twyla Tharp)
And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us. (Quote by - Jami Gertz)
My dancing days are done. (Quote by - Beaumont and Fletcher)
I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. (Quote by - George Balanchine)
Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark. (Quote by - Simone Schwarz-Bart)
I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
I use dancing to embellish, extend or enlarge upon an existing emotion. (Quote by - Gower Champion)
All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it. (Quote by - Vera Wang)
On with the dance, let joy be unconfined is my motto, whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health - it rusts your spirit and your hips. (Quote by - Adabella Radici)
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. (Quote by - Matt Groening)
Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. (Quote by - Faith Whittlesey)
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head. (Quote by - Agnes de Mille)
I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things. (Quote by - Deborah Bull)
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing. (Quote by - Doris Humphrey)
Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time. (Quote by - Ginger Rogers)
A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed. (Quote by - Toni Bentley)
There's no dancing girls. We're kinda like secondary to the thing. It's a story about these two guys that are in love with this one girl and how it unfolds and what happens. (Quote by - Eric Carr)
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal. (Quote by - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
Next time you're mad, try dancing out your anger. (Quote by - Sweetpea Tyler)
Do you think dyslexic people have difficulty dancing to "Y.M.C.A."? (Quote by - Dave Sokolowski)
When you're dancing, you're dancing for people to see. (Quote by - Pharrell Williams)
I can not remember even thinking that I was deaf when I was dancing. (Quote by - Stephanie Beacham)
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
All Indians must dance, everywhere keep on dancing. (Quote by - Wovoka)
I just put my feet in the air and move them around. (Quote by - Fred Astair)
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
He dances well to whom Fortune pipes. (Quote by - John Ray)
Ever since I was a little kid, whenever my parents would have company over, I would put on shows, whether they would be magic shows, singing shows, dancing shows, little skits. (Quote by - Ellen Muth)
Dancing's a touchstone that true beauty tries, nor suffers charms that nature's hand denies. (Quote by - Soame Jenyns)
In life as in the dance: Grace glides on blistered feet. (Quote by - Alice Abrams)
He who cannot dance will say: the Drum is bad. (Quote by - Africa)
We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it. (Quote by - Margot Kidder )
Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly essential to health; in bracing the muscles of the body, and in producing copious perspiration.....The body must perspire, or must be out of order. (Quote by - Noah Webster)
I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing. (Quote by - Suzanne Farrell)
Dear creature!--you'd swear When her delicate feet in the dance twinkle round, That her steps are of light, that her home is the air, And she only par complaisance touches the ground. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
All dancers have a cumulative tendency, because each beat of the tom-tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon, those who were just spectators would dance too. (Quote by - Camara Laye)
Dancing is a sweat job. (Quote by - Fred Astaire)
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing. (Quote by - Moliere)
O give me new figures! I can't go on dancing The same that were taught me ten seasons ago; The schoolmaster over the land is advancing, Then why is the master of dancing so slow? It is such a bore to be always caught tripping In dull uniformity year after year; Invent something new, and you'll set me a skipping: I want a new figure to dance with my Dear! (Quote by - Thomas Haynes Bayly)
For you and I are past our dancing days. (Quote by - Shakespeare)
My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing. (Quote by - Michelle Shocked)
You don't go dancing in the day. You don't go golfing in the night. (Quote by - Mark McKinney)
Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances Under the orchard-trees and down the path to the meadows; Old fold and young together, and children mingled among them. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it. (Quote by - Dan Fogelberg)
Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet. (Quote by - Deborah Bull)
Philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, but materialists have always known it depends on whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek (Quote by - Tom Robbins)
Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it. (Quote by - John Locke)
You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me. (Quote by - Katherine Dunham)
How can we know the dancer from the dance? (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up. (Quote by - Lee Trevino)
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. (Quote by - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around. (Quote by - Fred Astaire)
I could have danced all night! (Quote by - Alan Jay Lerner)
To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother. (Quote by - Barry Humphries)
Come, and trip it as ye go, on the light fantastic toe. (Quote by - Milton)
I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing. (Quote by - Buddy Hackett)
It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine. (Quote by - Deborah Bull)
Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms. (Quote by - Byron)
When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers. (Quote by - Bobby Vinton )
Dancing is the body made poetic. (Quote by - Ernst Bacon)
Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue. (Quote by - Carmen Electra)
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop. (Quote by - W.H. Auden)
Except for the point, the still point, there would be no dance, and there is only the dance. (Quote by - Eliot)
What! the girl I adore by another embraced? What! the balm of her breath shall another man taste? What! pressed in the dance by another's man's knee? What! panting recline on another than me? Sir, she's yours; you have pressed from the grape its fine blue, From the rosebud you've shaken the tremulous dew; What you've touched you may take. Pretty waltzer--adieu! (Quote by - Sir Henry Charles Englefield)
Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models. (Quote by - Ruben Blades)
As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot. (Quote by - Sanjay Dutt)
Let us read and let us dance -two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. (Quote by - Voltaire)
It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved. (Quote by - Linda Lavin)
Some people come in and really freak. There's movement everywhere, even a dancing housekeeper! (Quote by - Tom Bergeron)
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. (Quote by - Isadora Duncan)
And beautiful maidens moved down in the dance, with the magic of motion and sunshine of glance. (Quote by - Whittier)
Think of the magic of the foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance.....is a celebration of that miracle. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
To brisk notes in cadence beating Glance their many-twinkling feet. (Quote by - Thomas Gray)
It is of course possible to dance a prayer. (Quote by - Glade Byron Addams)
Dancing is the poetry of the foot. (Quote by - John Dryden )
Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
I'm working toward a CD that will have all of you dancing like crazy. (Quote by - Paula Abdul)
How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it. (Quote by - George Murphy )
'Twas surely the devil that taught women to dance. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
If you look at my eyes when I'm dancing, you'll see that glazed look. (Quote by - Ben Stiller)
My mother told me I was dancing before I was born. She could feel my toes tapping wildly inside her for months. (Quote by - Ginger Rogers)
He who is unable to dance says that the yard is stony (Quote by - African Proverb)
No Sane man will dance. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Each time a dancer moves devoutly or a composer faithfully searches the silence for the veiled melodies, eternity is engaged. (Quote by - Maya Angelou)
We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing. (Quote by - Verne Troyer)
Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult. (Quote by - Robert Palmer)
You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights. (Quote by - Bob Barker)
Her feet beneath her petticoat like little mice, stole in and out, as if they feared the light; but oh, she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day is half so fine a sight. (Quote by - Sir John Suckling)
Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport. (Quote by - Duffy Daugherty)
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)
The practice mirror is to be used for the corrections of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend. (Quote by - Agnes de Mille)
Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance. (Quote by - Mr. Miyagi)
Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I'm sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don't have enough talent to get people dancing themselves. (Quote by - Ronnie Spector)
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. (Quote by - D.H. Lawrence)
I wish I was born in that era: dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves, and sunglasses. (Quote by - Catherine Zeta-Jones)
Well, I was going to school in Germany. And in my free time I was dancing. (Quote by - Heidi Klum )
The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie. (Quote by - Agnes de Mille)
Dancing is wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evening of dancing seemed a good way to have it. (Quote by - Lawrence Welk)
Modern dancing is old fashioned. (Quote by - Samuel Goldwyn)
I danced with passion to spite the music. (Quote by - Gelsey Kirkland)
Dancing came easy to me. (Quote by - Hedda Hopper)
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master. (Quote by - Joshua Reynolds)
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself. (Quote by - Mikhail Baryshnikov)
I used to a lot. I used to go dancing. (Quote by - Parker Stevenson )
The girl who can't dance says the band can't play. (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Imperial Waltz! imported from the Rhine (Famed for the growth of pedigrees and wine), Long be thine import from all duty free, And hock itself be less esteem'd than thee. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. (Quote by - Ted Shawn)
You have to be aware. Like, I'm not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I'm not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I'm dancing now for 30 more years. (Quote by - Bebe Neuwirth)
Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. (Quote by - John Wain)
It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer. (Quote by - Shanna LaFleur)
My dancing days are past. (Quote by - Massinger)
One of my favorite stories was Black Orchid, because it was so different from all the others. I especially enjoyed dancing the Charleston. I have always been keen on dancing. (Quote by - Sarah Sutton )
Aerobic dancing is already adjusting to injury problems and will probably phase out to some extent. (Quote by - Kenneth H. Cooper)
Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it. (Quote by - Judith Jamison)
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen? (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something. (Quote by - Josh Duhamel )
I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing. (Quote by - Victoria Abril)
Dancing cheek to cheek. (Quote by - Irving Berlin)
Dancers are the messengers of the gods. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
One of them would definitely be the Nelson Mandela gig, when I played the tribute song for him. He was up and dancing, and he really enjoyed it. It was a really lovely occasion. (Quote by - Joan Armatrading)
To dance is to give channel to the Creator. (Quote by - Ali Abdullah)
Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different. (Quote by - Jane Austen)
In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath. (Quote by - Breyten Breytenbach)
Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy; it becomes possible. (Quote by - Agnes De Mille)
I was always singing and dancing for my mother when I wasn't glued to the television watching I Love Lucy or the Carol Burnett Show. (Quote by - Debra Messing)
The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing. (Quote by - Norman Granz )
I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all. (Quote by - Joe Lando )
There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. (Quote by - Vicki Baum)
Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child. (Quote by - Suzanne Farrell)
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)
But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe. (Quote by - Ruth St. Denis)
The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'. (Quote by - Ryan Stiles)
A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment. (Quote by - Toni Bentley)
Dance is the hidden language of the soul. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw )
I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl. (Quote by - Emily Mortimer)
Dancing is just discovery, discovery, discovery. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
The rewards of dancing are very different from choreographing. (Quote by - Twyla Tharp )
Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. (Quote by - Jane Austen )
When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that. (Quote by - Shakespeare)
Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time. (Quote by - Miguel Angel Ruiz)
Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance. (Quote by - Giorgio Moroder)
Dear creature!-you'd swear when her delicate feet in the dance twinkle round, that her steps are of light, that her home is the air, and she only par complaisance touches the ground. (Quote by - Thomas Moore)
Some people march to a different drummer-and some people polka. (Quote by - Los Angeles Times Syndicate)
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life. (Quote by - Paul A. Volcker)
I think it would be stupid for us to try and tell people who are dancing in a discotheque about the problems of the world. That is the very thing they have come away to avoid. (Quote by - Giorgio Moroder )
Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Dancing is like bank robbery, it takes split-second timing. (Quote by - Twyla Tharp)
The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers. (Quote by - Louise Brown)
And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession. (Quote by - Suzanne Farrell)
I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does. (Quote by - Ardel Wray )
Find fitness with fun dancing. It is fun and makes you forget about the dreaded exercise. (Quote by - Paula Abdul)
I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show. (Quote by - Natalie Portman)
To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade. (Quote by - Milton)
The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible. (Quote by - Suzanne Farrell)
If you're in a company, you're dancing from 9 a.m. till 7 in the evening, and then you go home and get in a hot tub and get some Epsom salts and try to get your body goin' again. There's no social life, no anything. (Quote by - Neve Campbell)
Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays. (Quote by - George Balanchine)
It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me. (Quote by - Tracey Emin)
Such pains, such pleasures now alike are o'er, And beaus and etiquette shall soon exist no more At their speed behold advancing Modern men and women dancing; Step and dress alike express Above, below from heel to toe, Male and female awkwardness. Without a hoop, without a ruffle, One eternal jig and shuffle, Where's the air and where's the gait? Where's the feather in the hat? Where the frizzed toupee? and where Oh! where's the powder for the hair? (Quote by - Catherine M. Fanshawe)
Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory. (Quote by - Archie Shepp)
Through dancing many maidens have been unmaidened, whereby I may say it is the storehouse and nursery of bastardy. (Quote by - John Northbrooke)
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do. (Quote by - Ninette de Valois)
Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! (Quote by - Constanze)
Dancing is the world's favorite metaphor. (Quote by - Kristy Nilsson)
If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat. (Quote by - Artie Shaw)
I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm. (Quote by - David Gallagher)
In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
Those who can't dance say the music is no good (Quote by - Jamaican Proverb )
I just finished a film with Michael Radford called Dancing at the Blue Iguana. (Quote by - Daryl Hannah)
One out of forty American men wears women's clothing. We've had more than forty presidents. One of these guys has been dancing around the Oval Office in a prom dress. (Quote by - Allison Janney)
I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building. (Quote by - Frank Hubbard)
There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain. (Quote by - Suzanne Farrell)
On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing. (Quote by - Victoria Abril)
Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round. (Quote by - John Milton)
I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film. (Quote by - Guy Ritchie )
My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered. (Quote by - Gene Kelly)
Dancing's not always stressful, but I always make sure that I'm prepared as I can be, both physically, mentally, and practically. (Quote by - Deborah Bull )
Dancing with Kate Beckinsale made me very excited. (Quote by - Richard Roxburgh)
The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time. (Quote by - Bruce Schneier)
When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds. (Quote by - Neil Innes)
Dance light, for my heart it lies under your feet, love. (Quote by - John Francis Waller)
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. (Quote by - Horace Walpole)
Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body. (Quote by - Klaus Schulze)
Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance. (Quote by - Gregory Hines)
Movements are as eloquent as words. (Quote by - Isadora Duncan)
And then he danced,--all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;--he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good sense-a thing in footing indispensable: he danced without theatrical pretence, not like a ballet-master in the van of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman. (Quote by - Byron)
Shake it 'til the moon becomes the sun. (Quote by - Vada Nobles)
Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you turn. (Quote by - Sweetpea Tyler)
I loved fencing and dancing and elocution. (Quote by - Vivien Leigh)
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfin'd; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet. (Quote by - Byron)
Scriptures and creeds may come to seem incredible, but faith will still go dancing on. (Quote by - Sydney Carter)
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world. (Quote by - Agnes de Mille)
It is sweet to dance to violins when Love and Life are fair; to dance to flutes, to dance to lutes is delicate and rare: but it is not sweet with nimble feet to dance upon the air! (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance. (Quote by - Peter Saint James)
My singing wasn't horrible, but my dancing really made it look silly. It's not like I'm a horrible singer that can't sing. But I don't have the consistency or the presentation skills that a good performer has. (Quote by - William Hung)
I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement. (Quote by - Jody Watley)
Around 7 years old, we girls took dancing lessons, joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts, the 4H Club. (Quote by - Ruth Buzzi)
About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night. (Quote by - Coleridge)
Twelve Dancings are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd; And soon as a dance has come to a close, Another begins, and each merrily goes. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
How inimitably graceful children are in general-before hey learn to dance. (Quote by - Samuel Coleridge)
Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon. Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego Your future claims to each fantastic toe! Waltz--Waltz alone--both legs and arms demands, Liberal of feet, and lavish of her hands. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. (Quote by - Laurie Anderson)
There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. (Quote by - Edwin Denby)
You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper. (Quote by - Robert Alton Harris)
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words. (Quote by - Ruth St. Denis)
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. (Quote by - Angela Monet)
Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit. (Quote by - Judith Jamison)
Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. (Quote by - Samuel Beckett )
Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? (Quote by - Carroll)
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. (Quote by - Steve Martin)
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. (Quote by - Mata Hari)
To sing well and dance well are accomplishments which advance one very little in the world (Quote by - Roussea)
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair. (Quote by - Susan Polis Shutz)
Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. (Quote by - John James Audubon)
In a fiddler's house all are dancers. (Quote by - Proverb)
In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace. (Quote by - George Gascoigne)
Always the question for dancers is: Can we fly? (Quote by - Jean-Christophe Mailo)
I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing. (Quote by - Michael Flatley)
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good. (Quote by - Polish Proverb)
Dancing in the chequer'd shade. (Quote by - John Milton)
What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it. (Quote by - Sally Rand)
West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York. (Quote by - Vincente Minnelli )
Dancing, the child of Music and of Love. (Quote by - Sir John Davies)
That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein )
Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls. (Quote by - Gene Kelly)
One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing. (Quote by - Clive Barnes)
Dancing is my obsession. My life. (Quote by - Mikhail Baryshnikov)
I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent. (Quote by - Twyla Tharp)
And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
When you go to dance, take heed whom you take by the hand. (Quote by - John Clarke)
Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me. (Quote by - Victoria Abril)
If the dance is pleasing, even the lame will crawl to it. (Quote by - Africa)
