Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Joubert

Work like you don't need the money.

Kristin Cavallari

I'm not a big dancer!

Moliere

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Moliere

...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing.

Mike Birbiglia

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

Natalia Makarova

I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.

Natalia Makarova

The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.

Natalia Makarova

Even the ears must dance.

Kirsten Smith

He called us and said there was this gifted dancer he'd seen. We saw him and granted him a full scholarship to the festival and now he's on tour with us.

Graham has done Strictly Dance Fever and there are other things in discussion, ... He's a really important face for the channel.

Rob Marshall

great beauty, was a great dancer and had incredible spirit. There was no question at all when I met her.

Georg Brandes

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.

Gene Kelly

My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.

Gene Kelly

I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.

Gene Kelly

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

Gene Kelly

It fit into my scheme of things for many reasons. At the time it was true that male dancers were looked down upon, and it was true that a lot of the male dancers were effeminate. But what I was really trying to do was develop something that would be American.

Friedrich Nietzsche

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I should not believe in a God who does not dance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!

Friedrich Nietzsche

And let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once! And let that wisdom be false to us that brought no laughter with it!

Jean Dubuffet

Dancing is the last word in life. In dancing one draws nearer to oneself.

Glenn Roeder

I've never fancied myself as a pole dancer.

Emma Goldman

If I can't dance, it's not my revolution!

Robert Pinsky

If I live near a dancer or a painter, or a clarinet player comes from my neighborhood, I take some pleasure in that, feel a little more as if I come from someplace in particular.

Bobby Hamilton

I can't think about what happened in 2001 and what kind of season it was. It was a good season. But like I say, I hope I can have a season like that, turn it back around and go to the big dance (this year).

Colin Murray

I can't wait to hear the dance version.

I don't think that's necessarily true. I feel the same way about exotic dancers.

David Strathairn

I feel kind of like a deer in the headlights. It's quite a big dance and it's my first time on the floor.

I don't want to sound arrogant, but why would we? They don't have the market share or technology we need. Scale is No. 1 on our dance card. Where do you get scale? You go to the big players with alliances.

William Butler Yeats

Come swish around, my pretty punk,And keep me dancing stillThat I may stay a sober manAlthough I drink my fill.

James Broughton

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

James Brown

I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.

James Cagney

Though I soon became typecast in Hollywood as a gangster and hoodlum, I was originally a dancer, an Irish hoofer, trained in vaudeville tap dance. I always leapt at the opportunity to dance in films later on.