Dancing Quotes
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You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.
William Shakespeare
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I had a few friends who we hung out with and that was it. We'd ride together, get in fights, go dancing, just causing trouble basically.
Charles Henry Mosley III
Bad Brains
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The tour life definitely puts strains on your body, not just because of the dancing but because of the fact that you are traveling into the wee hours of the day, getting up early, going to sound check - just the grueling process of it all.
Harry Shum, Jr.
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No more dancing with any male but me. No more time to learn who you are before you have to hold that personality against mine. No more freedom to explore your sensuality before I own it.
Nalini Singh
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One minute you could be getting a smoke in the alley on the Lower East Side with your friends, having drinks and dancing on tables in a popular nightclub. And the next minute, you could be dead.
Melissa de la Cruz
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I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.
Carrie Ann Inaba
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I've done everything. I've sung, done records, plays... It just so happened my first professional job was as a dancer. I've done the whole shebang, darling. But dancing was my first professional engagement in 1974. I got paid for it, so that was it, my vocation. But my parents weren't keen. They wanted me to be an accountant in Italy. Or a lawyer. They were furious. I had to run away. I had to leave the country.
Bruno Tonioli
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I have had so many great moments, but I would have to say that dancing the Swan in 'Swan Lake' was such a unique and passionate experience for me. It was such bloody hard work, even at that very early age, that I would not want to try to replicate it again now.
William Kempe
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When I was little, I didn’t really have a passion for dancing, but when I was about 9 years old, I knew it was something I wanted to keep doing.
Mackenzie Ziegler
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Dancing is still the hardest profession. Gene Kelly said dancing is a man's game Women have to do the same thing in heels, and have to sing and smile at the same time. Professional athletes don't even have to do that - and they get to wear sneakers.
Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber
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Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.
Jerome Robbins
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We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing;
Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.
John Harington
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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.
Neve Campbell
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If the Olympic champion doesn't know how to jump quad, I don't know. Now it's not figure skating. Now it's dancing.
Evgeni Plushenko
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The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless and unbending. To another it means a risky, surprised-filled adventure, lived tiptoe at the edge of expectation...If we get our information from the biblical material, there is no doubt that the Christian life is a dancing, leaping, daring life.
Eugene H. Peterson
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Certain audiences get the double meaning and some of the references and ironies, but there's definitely been shows where I feel like I'm not doing it well enough for it to come across as anything other than "oh, she's hot and she's dancing."
Emily Haines
Broken Social Scene
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I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.
Sunidhi Chauhan
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Swing your partner, dosey-do, now clap your hands... uh-oh, that's all the square dance moves I know... I'll bluff the rest. Slap your partner in the face, Write bad checks all over the place, Flirt with strangers, annoy your spouse, Get a divorce and lose your house, ...uh... dosey-do.
Scott Adams
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We have a tendency to be in our heads’ … Dancing is about letting go of the mind [and] the ego and finding the power of the body.
Carrie Ann Inaba
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I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancer's body and had these crazy high arches in my feet that resulted in an amazing point. Ballet was very disciplined and, frankly, a little boring, so I eventually transitioned to gymnastics. I loved that, although I never reached a competitive level.
Catherine Mary Stewart
