Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ninette de Valois

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

Neil Innes

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.

Neil Gaiman

For some, it was easier to take the leap from the leafless tree and dance on nothing until dancing was done.

John Muir

Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof.

Sheena Easton

I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.

Terence Stamp

I'm still tap dancing. I'm still going.

Nora Roberts

I feel something for you, some dangerous thing, some volatile thing.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Ah, if you could dance all that you've just said, then I'd understand.

Miranda Kerr

I don't really enjoy cardio, but I find activities like cranking up the music and dancing around my house keep me energized and feeling good.

Johnny Mercer

Arthur Murray taught me dancing in a hurry.

Johnny Marr

I find this kind of folk with guys in Wellington boots and washboards not good to listen to. That music is one step away from barn dancing as far as I'm concerned. Anyone under the age of 60 should not be wearing Wellington boots on stage.

Matthew Arnold

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

Marina and the Diamonds

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

Mary Steenburgen

Dancing in the strip club, Not the dancing, but the being naked was excruciatingly scary for me.

Plato

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

Plato

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

Plato

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

Plato

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

Plato

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

Paula Abdul

I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.

Mary E. Pearson

Pieces. A bit for someone here. A bit there. And sometimes they don't add up to anything whole. But you are so busy dancing. Delivering. You don't have time to notice. Or are afraid to notice. And then one day you have to look. And it's true. All of your pieces fill up other people's holes. But they don't fill your own.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

Martin Parr

The danger is, you have a formula and you just repeat it.

Peggy Lee

If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

MC Hammer

Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner.

Max Nordau

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

May Sarton

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

Maurice Sendak

Make it dangerous or it's not worth doing.

Maura Tierney

I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.

Mae Jemison

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

Mads Mikkelsen

I became a dancer late and an actor late.

Michael K. Williams

I came out the womb dancing.

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.