Dance Quotes
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Besides what have poets, in any case, to do with sin? They must dance before the Ark of the Covenant or die! But what am I trying to say?
Anna Akhmatova
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My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.
Lesli Linka Glatter
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A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance.
Socrates
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The ultimate part that I want to play in my life is Jimi Hendrix, so I guess I'm drawn to music even though I can't sing or dance very well.
Nelsan Ellis
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Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable expectations and eventual disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around the room with royal-blue chickens.
Fran Lebowitz
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Limited points of view let the writer dispense - and the reader gather - information from various corners of the story. It all becomes a kind of dance, with the writer guiding the reader through the various twists and turns. The challenge is keeping readers in step, while still managing to surprise.
Jonathan Evison
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'The Asylum Dance' was written after I'd moved back to Scotland and was a response to moving to my old home area of Fife.
John Burnside
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When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.
William Butler Yeats
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When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more. Each lap is a different scenario, so you're really on the edge of your nerves. One mistake could cost you the entire race.
Allan McNish
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Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.
Baker Brownell
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When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'
Twyla Tharp
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There are so many times when I think I don't have time to dance, but I force it into my life because I know it's so important.
Payal Kadakia
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It never occurred to me that I'd have a dance company.
Mark Morris
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I love to sing swing and shuffle stuff. Radio may not play it coast to coast, but I love playing them. Man, they fill the dance floor up. People who live the night life at these honky-tonks eat this stuff up.
Tracy Lawrence
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If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.
Katherine Dunham
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The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince.
Kyle Abraham
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I sing and dance. That's my job.
Dick Van Dyke
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I can definitely dance, but pedestrian dancing.
Chadwick Boseman
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Tonight I feel like all of creation is asking us to dance.
Kathy Mattea
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When things seem to be slowing down, there's this little trick I like to play. I'd plow this virgin who's on her period, and after I'm done I'd just run out into the living room, or the dance floor, with all that bloody goop on my junk and yell, OH MY GOD, I'VE BEEN SHOT IN THE NADS! Yeah, good times.
Zach Braff
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I tried to dance in my earlier films, but it was more like struggling to stay afloat once you are thrown into the water.
Emraan Hashmi
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All busy in the sunlight The flecks did float and dance, And I was tumbled up with them In formless circumstance.
Leonard Cohen
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In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.
Friedrich Nietzsche