Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tina Yothers

When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.

Thucydides

When tremendous dangers are involved, no one can be blamed for looking to his own interest.

Thucydides

Hope, danger's comforter

Tom Hollander

The danger with playing a part that defines you is that it swallows up everything else.

Tom Vilsack

There are a lot of farmers and ranchers who are struggling. I get on my knees every day. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

Thomas Campion

Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

Victoria Abril

On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.

Robert Fulghum

My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

Robert Fulghum

I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

Robert Benchley

I can get dressed earlier in the evening with every intention of going to a dance at midnight, but somehow after the theatre the thing to do seems to be either to go to bed or sit around somewhere. It doesn't seem possible that somewhere people can be expecting you at an hour like that.

Rita Rudner

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.

Rita Rudner

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

Rita Rudner

I was a ballerina. I had to quit after I injured a groin muscle. It wasn't mine...

Rita Mae Brown

The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.

Richard Madden

Dancing is not one of my talents. But when you've had a few drinks anyone is a good dancer, right?

Richard Dreyfuss

Well, I can't (sing or dance). Actually, I sing like a seal and dance like your Uncle Leo at that wedding where he got up and went 'ya, ya, ya'.

Thomas F. Wilson

There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.

Samantha Shannon

Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always.

Rupert Friend

I'm a terrible dancer.

Rupert Grint

I do get one chance to dance [in GoF], I had to dance with Maggie Smith. That was the only dancing experience I had, which was actually quite enough really.

Rumi

Daylight, full of small dancing particles. Can you see them when I whisper in your ear?

Rumi

Dance when you're perfectly free.

Rumi

You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you,

Rumi

Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.

Rumi

Dance where you can break yourself up to pieces and totally abandon your worldly passions.

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.