Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul McCartney

To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly!.

Patti Stanger

I'm a dancer so anything related to dance I love to do. I also tried Zumba last week. That thing is tough! 15 minutes in I was going for a water break. It wasn't easy!

Paul Valery

Do you not realise that dance is the pure act of metamorphosis?

Paul Valery

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

Mary Oliver

As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.

Martine McCutcheon

I've been told if you're an actress you can't sing, if you're a dancer you can't act, you can't do theatre and be respected if you've done a TV soap, you can't have a No. 1 record. All these different things they've told me I can't do, but I wanted to do them, so I've done them.

Pink

If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm and You are the music.

Paulo Coelho

When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

Pierce Brosnan

Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.

Mother Teresa

Success will win you false friends and true enemies - succeed anyway.

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

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 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'.

Walt Whitman

I dance with the dancers.

Walt Whitman

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

Walt Whitman

When I give, I give myself.

Sandra Bullock

Nothing makes me happier than dancing. It transforms me. It's the only time I let out what is inside and I feel completely sensual and sexy and alive.

Rod Paige

I've done everything but tap dance across the table.

Robert Smith Surtees

Some think that people come to a ball to do nothing but dance; whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball is to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after someone else's wife...

Sarah Zettel

When I'm not at the keyboard, I'm generally reading, practicing tai chi or middle eastern dance, or cooking.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

We have no adequate conception of the perfection of the ancient tragic dance. The pleasure which the greeks received from it had for its basis difference; & the more unfit the vehicle, the more lively was the curiosity & intense the delights at seeing the difficulty overcome.

Ricki Lake

I am not a natural dancer.

Robert Caro

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

Vera Wang

When I design a wedding dress with a bustle, it has to be one the bride can dance in. I love the idea that something is practical and still looks great.

Venus Williams

I feel amazing right now. I just feel like dancing.

Robin Williams

I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.

Vince Lombardi

The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.

Vince Lombardi

Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport...