Dance Quotes

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.

That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

Abundance is a dance with reciprocity - what we can give, what we can share, and what we receive in the process.

Dancing is a sweat job.

It is this mission of the dancer to contribute to the betterment of all mankind.

I was born into the studio and all I really know is dance.

Mad with the love of a wife for her husband... sing for the Most High sing for no other. We are all notes in this eternal song. God plays His flute and we all dance along.

The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.

I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.

We dance to fall in love with the spirit in all things, to wipe out memory or transform it into moves that nobody else can make because they didn’t live it.

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

You Jig, you amble, and you lisp.

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.

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance.

This is it for a winner, Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner, Move slide your rump, Just for a minute let's all do the bump, Bump, bump, bump yeah.

When you come close to selling out, reconsider.

In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.

The fact remains that we are invited to forget ourselves on purpose, cast our awful solemnity to the wind, and join in the general Dance.

I have a little nursery rhyme for all you children out there, something even the Godfather can understand. 'You can prance and you can dance, but when it comes to relations, keep it in your pants.

The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art, be it dancing, painting, singing, writing or even martial arts.

You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're going to dance the next day, going over every little detail.

You look like a handsome young man…although you might want to zip your fly. Mom! What? Should I have not told you and left it for everyone else to notice at the dance?

Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.

Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.

Dancers are the messengers of the gods.

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.

I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor.

But our wounds are part of who we are...and there is nothing left to chance....And pain's the pen that writes the songs....That call us forth to dance

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer and taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.

Une danse est un poe' me. A dance is a poem.

Come up and see me sometime.

The dance goes on forever. So shall I. So shall we.

I went into the gas station, said, Fill 'er up, Harry. The guy said, Regular? I said, No, put on a gorrila suit and dance like a fairy.

Dance until the earth dance.

Your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.

So, I think I would say, enjoy the process of learning to dance. The process of our profession, and not its final achievement, is the heart and soul of dance.