Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gustave Flaubert

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

John Dryden

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

John Cleese

I was a terrible dancer. I dance like an Englishman.

Louise Brooks

I learned to act by watching Martha Graham dance, and I learned to dance by watching Charlie Chaplin act.

Louise Brooks

In my dreams I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance.

Marques Houston

You know Marques Houston, you know I'm a dancer, I'm a singer, but I wouldn't want to do a movie that I'm a dancer and a singer in. I want to do movies that people can take me more seriously in as an actor, because when you're making that transition, it is tough.

Maura Tierney

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

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.

Ruben Blades

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

Umberto Eco

When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.

Trey Songz

I'm no dancer. I got rhythm, I can dance if I need to, but I'm not Chris Brown. He's an amazing dancer. If I'm not going to be amazing at it, I'm not gon' do it. I'm gonna do what works for me, and you're going to feel it 'cause it's me.

Rick Dees

One's concentration as a performer must remain centered on the action of which one is a part. For it is in truth only one's own concentration on the imagined reality of the role that can force the audience's attention to that same place.

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.