Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Updike

All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you.

John Suckling

But oh, she dances in such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight.

John Selden

There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.

James Howe

Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

Jon M. Chu

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

Jon M. Chu

I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.

Luc de Clapiers

Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.

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.

Hugh Prather

The heart loves, but moods have no loyalty. Moods should be heard but never danced to

Dick Vermeil

All they told us, ... is there's 2,000 people decorating the dance floor.

Brian Murphy

These fools start dancing at six, and they'll dance until you turn the music off at 2 a.m..

Maddie Ziegler

All I do is watch dance videos. I love Ricky Ubeda, who is a contemporary dancer, and I also love Madison Cubbage. They inspire me to work harder every day.

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.

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.

Joan Chen

I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I didn't get very far but it was the first time that I realized what I needed to do to become a dancer. I realized how hard it was.

Lionel Blue

My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.

Lady Gaga

I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do.

Lewis Carroll

The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance.

Lewis Carroll

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

Josephine Baker

A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.