Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive Barnes

Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.

Clive James

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

Dustin Diamond

Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die by your jokes, that's it.

Anais Nin

Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.

Anita Shreve

If you're skating on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Chubby Checker

Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

Christopher Marlowe

My men like satyrs grazing on the lawns, / Shall with their goat-feet dance an antic hay.

Annette Funicello

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

Angela Lansbury

I'm not going to be dancing with the stars at this stage in my life. But I want to dance and bop around, and I did, and I can.

Alvin Ailey

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it is not enough.

Alvin Ailey

I always want to have more dancers in my company.

Alvin Ailey

I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.

Alvin Ailey

Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.

Alvin Ailey

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

Anne Sexton

Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.

Anita Brookner

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

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.

Ambrose Bierce

Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.

Anthony Kiedis

You're not getting the b-level tunes. Our most recent producer, Danger Mouse, was quite sure about that. So you're getting the best of the best, the cream of the cream of what we have to offer.

Alison Brie

Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin' loose. There's something great about the carefree flinging of your body to great music. It can be so joyous.

Anne Lamott

At our most primitive we are storytellers and dancers.

Anne Lamott

I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.

Radhanath Swami

Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.

The existing road is the most dangerous elevated structure in California. Its replacement is a very high priority as a matter of safety.

We'll have our dance team at some Fort Worth ISD pep rallies in the next week or so. We'll have a good presence in the community.

Hans Rosling

Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.

Li Keqiang

The African people and tribal chiefs are hospitable, and African music and dances are invigorating.

Ariel Sharon

What we see today to my regret are steps that pose a danger to the state of Israel.

Alexander Pope

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

Alexander Pope

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.

Alexa Vega

I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily.

Alex Kapranos

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

Deborah Cox

My opinion is that music is music. As long as you approach doing a remix with truth, I don't see the dance remixes being any different than an hip-hop remix- it's really a different version of the song.