Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gelsey Kirkland

Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.

Gelsey Kirkland

I danced with passion to spite the music.

Gelsey Kirkland

As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.

Gelsey Kirkland

The dance goes on forever. So shall I. So shall we.

Gelsey Kirkland

I embarked on a risky course of plastic surgery and silicone injections, major dental realignments and gruesome medical procedures. I pray that young dancers, those who imitate me at their peril, will avoid this blind alley. It is more than a dead end; it is a dead beginning.

Gelsey Kirkland

When you are on stage you are having an affair with three thousand people.

Fred Astaire

Slippery stages were the terror of my life.

Fred Astaire

I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.

Fred Astaire

Of course, Ginger was able to accomplish sex through dance. We told more through our movements instead of the big clinch. We did it all in the dance.

Fred Astaire

Disco is just jitterbug.

Fred Astaire

This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

Fred Astaire

I'm just a hoofer with a spare set of tails.

Fred Astaire

It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.

Fred Astaire

If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

Fred Astaire

Dancing is a sweat job.

Fred Astaire

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

Fred Astaire

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

Fred Astaire

Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained..

Fred Astaire

Do it big, do it right and do it with style.

Enrique Iglesias

Would you dance, if I asked you to dance? Would you run, and never look back? Would you cry, if you saw me crying? And would you save my soul tonight?

Gary Shapiro

A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves.

Gary Sinise

It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.

Chris Isaak

When I play it I look out and see people hold on to each other and dance or just couples leaning into each other and kiss. And I'll go: 'You know, I could have worked hard at school and been a dentist. But I'm so glad I didn't.' Because when I look out and see that I feel like the Pied Piper of love.

Felicity Jones

I'm more of a freestyle dancer. I like to do my own thing.

Ezra Pound

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Euripides

Many a maiden, With white feet dancing light as air, Made happy music through the gloom.

Francesca Annis

I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.

I've always been physical. I loved sports growing up. I was never specifically a dancer or anything like that.

Cassandra Clare

Well, I'm certainly not Ragnor Fell the exotic dancer.

Patrick Kavanagh

A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong.

Patricia Highsmith

Perhaps God and the Devil danced hand in hand around every single electron.

Rainbow Tribe's mission is to use dance as a medium to educate the public on the importance of embracing diversity.

Our faculty very much express themselves with administration, ... We kind of dance together.