Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rachel Stevens

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

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.

Thom Yorke

Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music

Thom Yorke

I once got hit with a taser at a concert and everyone thought I was dancing. Now I have to do that dance, at every show for the rest of my life, or admit that a taser can damage the Thom Yorke

Thom Yorke

15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.

Terry Tempest Williams

The danger is in what we codify, commodify, and exploit.

Taylor Phinney

I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

Seth

You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart.

Leslie Caron

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

Rudy Giuliani

I believe education in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts... is part of a well-rounded education and can provide so much joy, now and in the future.

Samuel Johnson

Security will produce danger.

Sam Cooke

Shakin' like a bowl of soup and make your body loop-de-loop.

Robyn

Even if I'm sad, dancing is a way to let stuff out.

Robert Palmer

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

Fettuccine Alfredo is dangerous for your health.

Walt Whitman

I dance with the dancers.

Walt Whitman

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

Walt Whitman

When I give, I give myself.

Tom Harkin

Prions are highly indestructible.

Tina Turner

I'm your private dancer, a dancer for money, I'll do what you want me to do.

Tim Kaine

Donald Trump doesn't have a plan. But he does have dangerous ideas.

Sacha Baron Cohen

Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

Rumi

In your light I learn how to love.

Rumi

‎Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

Rumi

We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.

Roy Blount, Jr.

I do some eccentric dancing.

Susan Polis Schutz

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...

Thomas A. Edison

The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.

Neil Patrick Harris

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

Natalie Imbruglia

I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.