Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rumi

In your beauty, how to make poems.

Rumi

Without love, all worship is a burden, all dancing is a chore, all music is mere noise.

Rumi

Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.

Tom Lehrer

You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.

Tom Bergeron

Some people come in and really freak. There's movement everywhere, even a dancing housekeeper!

Shirley MacLaine

Being a dancer meant you nearly always thought about food.

Shirley MacLaine

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

Shirley MacLaine

You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.

Shirley MacLaine

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

Shirley MacLaine

Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

Shirley MacLaine

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.

Shakira

I'm not a trained dancer, but I grew up in a culture that revolves around dance.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.

T. S. Eliot

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.

Taye Diggs

I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.

Josiah Warren

It is dangerous to understand new things too quickly.

Kim Kardashian

I'm a little more shy and not comfortable dancing in front of a large crowd.

Rachel Stevens

My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

Rachel Stevens

Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.

Radhanath Swami

Dancing together in kirtans can help us develop friendships that no Mediation Therapy can.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Painting seems to be to the eye what dancing is to the limbs. When that has educated the frame to self-possession, to nimbleness,to grace, the steps of the dancing-master are better forgotten; so painting teaches me the splendor of color and the expression of form, and as I see many pictures and higher genius in the art, I see the boundless opulence of the pencil, the indifferency in which the artist stands free to choose out of the possible forms.

Lincoln Kirstein

Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to poetry, color to painting, so sequence in steps - their syntax, idiom, vocabulary - are the stuff of stage dancing.

Lincoln Kirstein

Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

And they don't have to work nights, and they don't have to work weekends and face danger.

And the street is a dangerous place. If you're a homeless woman on the street, you've got a tough row to hoe.

Esther Dyson

Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

Drinking is fine. But when people drink too much, they become dangerous to themselves and other people.

European poultry is facing a real danger at this point in time.

Following examination, it has been determined (the powder) was not a dangerous material.

Federal-Mogul was a good paycheck and it was a steady paycheck. All of a sudden that's taken away, and that's what a lot of people were faced with. With the closings of Federal-Mogul and Dan River, it throws you back out on the job market.

Fear is something where there's some kind of impending danger that we sense, and it's our reaction to that impending danger, and it motivates us to protect ourselves and get out of harm's way.

Father Vincent jumped last year and he talked about it as one of those shocking things to do. It has a dangerous feel to it that helps you examine your life, like the start of the new year does, and make sure you're living a life worth living and doing all you can with it.

Michael Young

Beau and Daniel did a good job stepping in.