Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Milton

Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

Ninette de Valois

All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

Ninette de Valois

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.

Ninette de Valois

You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

Ninette de Valois

We are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

Ninette de Valois

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.

Ninette de Valois

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.

Ninette de Valois

You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

Sheena Easton

I'm a terrible dancer. The worst.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Ah, if you could dance all that you've just said, then I'd understand.

Matthew Arnold

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

Plato

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has been elaborated.

Plato

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

Plato

So the well educated man can learn to sing and dance well.

Plato

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

Plato

The Dance, of all the arts, is the one that most influences the soul. Dancing is divine in its nature and is the gift of God.

Paula Abdul

I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.

Peggy Lee

If that's all there is, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

Max Nordau

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

Maura Tierney

I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.

Mads Mikkelsen

I became a dancer late and an actor late.

Mata Hari

My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.

Mata Hari

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Mason Cooley

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.

Mia Wasikowska

With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.

Ted Shawn

Man has used human rhythmic movement as raw material out of which to create works of art, as the composer of music uses sound, the sculptor uses stone and wood, the painter his pigments, and the writer - words.

Ted Shawn

Education in the art of dance is education of the whole man − his physical, mental and emotional natures are disciplined and nourished simultaneously in dance.

Ted Shawn

I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

Ted Shawn

I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written.

Ted Shawn

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

Catherine Mary Stewart

I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company 'Synergy' in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

I put my lucky dancing shoes on. We're a superstitious team, full of karma.

Dean Winters

I grew up in New York, and I've always been surrounded by fashion. My grandmother used to write for 'Vogue' in the '50s, and my mother was a dancer and a model.