Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tom Lehrer

You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.

Tom Bergeron

Some people come in and really freak. There's movement everywhere, even a dancing housekeeper!

Vanna Bonta

If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.

Vaclav Klaus

Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.

Suzanne Farrell

I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.

Suzanne Farrell

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.

Suzanne Farrell

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

Suzanne Farrell

Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance.

Suzanne Farrell

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.

Suzanne Farrell

So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.

Suzanne Farrell

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.

Suzanne Farrell

Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession.

Suzanne Farrell

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

Suzanne Farrell

Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.

Suzanne Farrell

Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself If you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.

Suzanne Farrell

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

Susannah McCorkle

When I dance, I love the romance and sexiness of it, and love having it be clear to both dancers that the man leads! But the man has to know what he's doing!

Susanna Hoffs

You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.

Susanna Kaysen

Something about the goat dancing made me want to cry.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Tap dancing all started with the old clog waltz.

T. S. Eliot

At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is.

Taye Diggs

I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.

Umberto Eco

When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.

Tyler James Williams

I've been dancing forever; since I remember, that's what I've been doing.

Trey Songz

I'm no dancer. I got rhythm, I can dance if I need to, but I'm not Chris Brown. He's an amazing dancer. If I'm not going to be amazing at it, I'm not gon' do it. I'm gonna do what works for me, and you're going to feel it 'cause it's me.

Trace Adkins

If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.