Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hendrik Willem Van Loon

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

Hedda Hopper

Dancing came easy to me.

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.

John Travolta

Dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.

John Travolta

Christopher Walken was probably the most experienced dancing partner I've had in movies, because he has the same background as I do. He's from theatre, Broadway and off-Broadway, and we both shared that.

John Updike

All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you.

John Suckling

But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.

John Selden

There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

James Howe

Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

Laurence Sterne

Precedents are the disgrace of legislation. They are not wanted to justify right measures, are absolutely insufficient to excuse wrong ones. They can only be useful to heralds, dancing masters, and gentlemen ushers.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.

Jon M. Chu

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

Jon M. Chu

I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.

Luc de Clapiers

Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.

Louis Stokes

Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Come, my Lady Dangerous, your Daimons await. (Valerius)

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.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

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.