Famous Quotes & Sayings

People tend to dance much more easily than they can sing or play the piano. It's not hard to teach a person to do a good jitterbug. But it's hard to get them to sound like Sinatra.

Judith Jamison

People don't remember me for how high my legs went, even though they went up very high, and how many pirouettes I did. They don't remember me for that. They remember me and any other dancer because something touched them inside. It's an indelible memory on the heart and in the mind.

Jackson Browne

Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.

Bram Stoker

Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play.

Robert Gottlieb

The mystery of Christopher Wheeldon deepens. Yes, he's the most talented of the younger ballet choreographers - indeed, where's the competition? Yes, he's particularly good at nurturing dancers and identifying their essential qualities.

Samuel Coleridge

The one red leaf, the last of its clan, / That dances as often as dance it can, / Hanging so light, and hanging so high, / On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

The most that they do is run around. Some do dance, but they mostly run around.

Some people don't know how to dance, and being called upon to dance in front of all their relatives is a nerve-wracking time.

Nastassja Kinski

Some people dance through life, not having a steady job or a steady marriage, and this and that.

Actually, actually ? I do. I teach the dances to the cast. Sam Hay is our dance captain. He 'cleans' the dances for the show and then Sam teaches me the dances. I never remember what I did. I have limited RAM in my mind.

There's an incredible variety there, and dance lovers are going to be in seventh heaven.

At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a few minutes.

Prince William

As she said goodbye, she said: ""Any good parties, invite me down."" I said ""Yes,"" but there was no way. I knew full well that if I invited her down, she would dance me under the table.

A lot of guys especially that I've talked to - they can tend to be a little leery of going to a dance show.

A lot of girls don't love to run, and that's OK. They can skip, hop, jump, dance or do cartwheels. The goal simply is to keep moving.

A lot of them are disappearing, either from neglect or natural disasters. They're very fragile. We had a flood in 2002 and we lost two buildings. We would have lost the dance hall itself, had it been in the path.

this is the dance of the seven veils, and here goes another veil. The last veil will be when she finally announces.

Robert Bruininks

This is part of the dance of the Legislature.

They were dancing in the streets, holding up their purple fingers. They were so proud and they were taking a great risk because they were told they'd be killed if they voted. It made me realize how spoiled we are. We take a lot of things for granted.

I treasure each opportunity that I get to dance with Karen. She is such an inspiration to me and an incredible artist.

It really started getting played in the U.S. during the 1950s and 1960s with Latin dances like the mambo, cha-cha-cha, samba, and bossa nova. Today, we have the salsa and meringue.

It's not mechanical. People just let go. The drummers are animated. Their hands reflect every gesture the dancers do. There are a lot of quick steps with the feet, shoulders, waist, hips and breasts.

There'll be dancing and some whooping and hollering.

. . . your presence was shore where I rested/ released from the hoodoo of that dance, where I spoke/ with my true voice again.

You meet new friends and meet old friends. Dancers learn new steps, and drummers learn new songs.

Jim Edgar

This is a two-step dance and the first step starts tomorrow.

Erin Morgenstern

Could you do such things when you were a dancer?' Tara asks her, as Tsukiko pulls a leg up impossibly far over her head. 'I would have had a much busier social calendar if I could,' Mme. Padva replies with a shake of her head.

Erin Morgenstern

The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

Carly Rae Jepsen

I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.

Carmen Electra

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

Evander Holyfield

Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.

Jay Leno

Scientists are complaining that the new dinosaur movie shows dinosaurs with lemurs, who didn't evolve for another million years. They're afraid the movie will give kids a mistaken impression. What about the fact that the dinosaurs are singing and dancing?

James Earl Jones

When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.