Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Lear

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon. They danced by the light of the moon.

Dar Williams

And as long as she's got noise she's fine, but I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended.

Theodore Roethke

And everything comes to One, As we dance on, dance on, dance on

William Blake

And because I am happy and dance and sing,They think they have done me no injury.

Holly Black

You are more dangerous than daybreak.

Hermann Hesse

So you can't dance? Not at all? Not even one step? How can you say that you've taken any trouble to live when you won't even dance?

Hermann Hesse

The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.

Herodotus

Great things are won by great dangers.

Heinrich Heine

The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body's bright splendour, And also her figure so slender...

Heinrich Heine

And the dancing has begun now, And the Dancings whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles.

Henry Fielding

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

Khalil Gibran

She danced the dance of flames and fire, and the dance of swords and spears; she danced the dance of stars and the dance of space, and then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind.

Norman Mailer

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Oriana Fallaci

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

Mata Hari

My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

Mata Hari

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Mason Cooley

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.

Mason Cooley

Pride sings and dances; humility sighs.

Mia Wasikowska

With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.

Michel Faber

Most distracting of all, though, was not the threat of danger but the allure of beauty.

Michel Foucault

My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.

Ted Shawn

Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.

Ted Shawn

Education in the art of dance is education of the whole man − his physical, mental and emotional natures are disciplined and nourished simultaneously in dance.

Ted Shawn

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

Ted Shawn

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

Ted Shawn

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

John Adams

When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles; but, by mixing in the world, I found the points of political needles finer and sharper than the metaphysical ones.

George Balanchine

One is born to be a great dancer.

George Balanchine

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms.

George Balanchine

I am a cloud - in trousers.

George Balanchine

My muse must come to me on union time.

George Balanchine

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

George Balanchine

They are poets of gesture.