Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martha Graham

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Martha Graham

Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.

Martha Graham

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium, and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open.

Martha Graham

Our arms start from the back because they were once wings.

Michel De Certeau

When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses […]. ‘The more solitary and isolated I become, the more I come to like stories,’ he said.

Mark Twain

I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

Mads Mikkelsen

I became a dancer late and an actor late.

George C. Marshall

It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.

Havelock Ellis

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

Fran Lebowitz

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

George Washington

Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them.

George Michael

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be a mistake... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every day I count wasted in which there has been no dancing.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

Milan Kundera

In eroticism as dance: one of the partners is always charged with leading the other.

Milan Kundera

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

Jose Bergamin

Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.

Jose Bergamin

There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.

Jordin Sparks

When I go out clubbing I can dance 'til three o'clock in the morning with just a water bottle in my hand. I love dancing to anything with a good beat really. My favorite song to dance to at the moment is probably Drake's 'Best I Ever Had'.

Joni Mitchell

Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby?

Katy B

I had wanted to be a dancer when I was younger. But at some point I figured out I was a better singer.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

Jo Brand

The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.

Ellen DeGeneres

You're gonna be ok, dum de dum dum dum, just dance.

Emily Blunt

I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.

George Bell

All these deals right now are about dancing with the devil. This is a very fast-moving space,

Matt Damon

And he should know! ... No, well, Terry had me take tango lessons to prepare for the movie just because I move like such a mook, you know, that he wanted me to be a little more of a dandy and so he thought if I danced that would happen.

Edward Lear

And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon, The moon, The moon. They danced by the light of the moon.

Dar Williams

And as long as she's got noise she's fine, but I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended.

Theodore Roethke

And everything comes to One, As we dance on, dance on, dance on